Among the original TV characters were " Mr. Ditto ," " Harris Tweed " ( a disembodied suit of clothes ), " Swenn Golly " ( a Svengali-like mesmerist ), counterfeiters " Max Millions " and " Minton Mooney ," " Frank N. Stein ," " Batula ," " Match Head " ( a pyromaniac ), " Sen-Sen O ' Toole ," " Shmoozer " and " Herman the Ape Man.

( The house John is buying is in a " good neighborhood ," but market values have been rising quite a lot lately and the real estate market analysts in the media are talking about a slow-down and higher interest rates.

Morris would later recall an early conversation with Julia: " I was talking to a mass murderer but I was thinking of you ," he said, and instantly regretted it, afraid that it might not have sounded as affectionate as he had wished.

Often, people refer to a " biased estimate " or an " unbiased estimate ," but they really are talking about an " estimate from a biased estimator ," or an " estimate from an unbiased estimator.

Between the nobles and commoners are Matapule, sometimes called " talking chiefs ," who are associated with the king or a noble and who may or may not hold estates.

" After the listener predictably reacts by explaining that they did not know a Tom Collins, the speaker would assert that Tom Collins was talking about the listener to others and that Tom Collins was " just around the corner ", " in a bar ," or somewhere else near.

" We are no longer talking about mythology ," Heyerdahl said, " but of the realities of geography and history.

The sound of people talking in the background is also considered a " BG ," but only if the speaker is unintelligible and the language is unrecognizable ( this is known as walla ).

Aristotle, writing around 330 BC, attempted to refute that belief, claiming that " those are manifestly talking nonsense who pretend that Solon was the lover of Peisistratus, for their ages do not admit of it ," as Solon was about thirty years older than Peisistratus.

Mantle made a ( talking ) cameo appearance in Teresa Brewer's 1956 song " I Love Mickey ," which extolled Mantle's power hitting.

* Giggles, Goggles: Two friends riding a tandem bike ( usually Rita Moreno and Judy Graubart ) or similar transportation device conversed when one of them misused a word (" flack " as in " flap ," when the other was talking about something with the word " flap ").

" Reagan recalled in his memoir that he had " neither the experience nor talent to fake it ," so he carried out exhaustive research, talking to disabled people and doctors, and practicing the line every chance he got.

They would say, " Let's go up to Clyde's ," not talking about the town only the supply tent.

" I was talking to a lot of people, and most didn't want the job ," Mello said.

* Stephen Colbert has said multiple times, " Let's change some bobbins " in his 435-part series, " Better Know a District ," typically when talking about labor unions.

Haldeman, garnered a reputation in Washington for the iron hand he wielded in the position — famously referring to himself as " the President's son-of-a-bitch ," he was a rigid gatekeeper who would frequently meet with administration officials in place of the President, then report himself to Nixon on the officials ' talking points.

Its prophecy of a savage foe from the north is based on Jeremiah 1: 3-16, where Jeremiah is talking about the Babylonians ; Ezekiel turns this into an eschatological enemy who will come " in the latter years ," an apocalypse at the end of time.

It consisted of two men, " talking all this trash " about women and quoting a man named Ross Jeffries, who was teaching a new version of the Eric Weber course, " How to Pick Up Women ," but utilizing hypnotism and subliminal language techniques.

* Yiddish: " A shod m ' hot nisht geredt fun moshiach " which translates to " We should have talked about the Messiah ," or " A shame we weren't talking about the Messiah.

The Post's Richard Harwood defended Woodward in a September 6, 1996 column, arguing that Woodward's method is that of a reporter – " talking to people you write about, checking and cross-checking their versions of contemporary history ," and collecting documentary evidence in notes, letters and records.

For example, when her mother asks if she and Charlie had a fight, she replies yes — but about " house payments ," talking about their future divorce.

McCall has also appeared in a video for schools called " Watch Over Me ," talking about her drug addiction and peer pressure.

Bern's song " Talkin ' Woody, Bob, Bruce, and Dan Blues ," from the album Smartie Mine, offers a joking take on this influence, presented in the style of a Guthrie or Dylan talking blues song, and containing a spoof of a Springsteen song as well.

* Was mentioned in " In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash " ( a book of short stories ) by Jean Shepherd when Ralph says to Flick, " I was down at H & H ," later explaining that he was talking about Horn & Hardart in New York City.

The cellular bulge produced by a haploid yeast cell towards a cell of the opposite mating type during the mating of yeast is referred to as a " shmoo ," due to its structural resemblance to the cartoon character.

In economics, a " widget " is any material good which is produced through labor ( extracted, refined, manufactured, or assembled ) from a finite resource — in contrast to a " shmoo ," which is a material good that reproduces itself and is captured or bred as an economic activity, ( the original shmoo reproduces without requiring any material sustenance ).

In fact, the cellular bulge that is produced by a haploid yeast cell as a response to a pheromone from the opposite mating type ( either a or α ) is referred to as a " shmoo ," because cells that are undergoing mating and present this particular structure resemble the cartoon character.

" This was borrowed into Arabic as al-tub ( الط ّ وب al " the " + tub " brick ") " brick ," which was assimilated into Old Spanish as adobe, still with the meaning " mud brick.

His system included modifying the way we consider the world, e. g., with an attitude of " I don't know ; let's see ," to better discover or reflect its realities as revealed by modern science.

The connection with Latin ligare, " to bind ," is erroneous.

Another view defines anxiety as " a future-oriented mood state in which one is ready or prepared to attempt to cope with upcoming negative events ," suggesting that it is a distinction between future and present dangers which divides anxiety and fear.

For example, in the first editions of the collection The Mysterious Mr Quin ( 1930 ), in the short story " The Soul of the Croupier ," she described " Hebraic men with hook-noses wearing rather flamboyant jewellery "; in later editions the passage was edited to describe " sallow men " wearing same.

The traditional etymology is from the Latin aperire, " to open ," in allusion to its being the season when trees and flowers begin to " open ," which is supported by comparison with the modern Greek use of ἁνοιξις ( anoixis ) ( opening ) for spring.

" Capitalism ," as anarcho-capitalists employ the term, is not to be confused with state monopoly capitalism, crony capitalism, corporatism, or contemporary mixed economies, wherein market incentives and disincentives may be altered by state action.

" I think you can only go so far with this economic model ," Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala told a news conference in Yerevan.

According to Scott Simpson, the Gona Project's physical anthropologist, the fossil evidence from the Middle Awash indicates that both A. kadabba and A. ramidus lived in " a mosaic of woodland and grasslands with lakes, swamps and springs nearby ," but further research is needed to determine which habitat Ardipithecus at Gona preferred.

Hesiod connects it by with ( aphros ) " foam ," interpreting it as " risen from the foam ".

The name probably means " she who ( comes ) at dusk ," which would identify Aphrodite in her personification as the evening star, a significant parallel she shares with Mesopotamian Ishtar.

His practical experience as a farm manager combined with socialist, " single-tax ," and Slavic communal ideas shaped his world view.

It is ' a restoration not only to the favour, but likewise to the image of God ," our " being filled with the fullness of God ".

When a character in Aristophanes ' Knights says, " I dreamed the goddess poured ambrosia over your head — out of a ladle ," the homely and realistic ladle brings the ineffable moment to ground with a thump.

Painting of St. Ambrose with whip and book in the church of San Giuseppe alla Lungara, RomeAn address by Ambrose to Christian young people warns them against intermarriage with Jews (" De Abrahamo ," ix.

See also note 43 at p. 163, with references to Palanque ( 1933 ), Gaudemet ( 1972 ), Matthews ( 1975 ) and King ( 1961 )</ ref > Under Ambrose's influence, Theodosius issued the 391 " Theodosian decrees ," which with increasing intensity outlawed Pagan practises, and the Altar of Victory was removed by Gratian.

He is defined by Thomas Carlyle as " a failure of a Fritz ," with " features " of a Frederick the Great in him, " but who burnt away his splendid qualities as a mere temporary shine for the able editors, and never came to anything, full of fire, too much of it wildfire, not in the least like an Alcibiades except in the change of fortune he underwent ".

The ultimate root of " amaranth " is the Greek ( amarantos ), " unfading ," with the Greek word for " flower ," ἄνθος ( anthos ), factoring into the word's development as " amaranth.

Agesilaus II, or Agesilaos II () ( 444 BC – 360 BC ) was a king of Sparta, of the Eurypontid dynasty, ruling from approximately 400 BC to 360 BC, during most of which time he was, in Plutarch's words, " as good as thought commander and king of all Greece ," and was for the whole of it greatly identified with his country's deeds and fortunes.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus exhorts us to " Observe in Alcaeus the sublimity, brevity and sweetness coupled with stern power, his splendid figures, and his clearness which was unimpaired by the dialect ; and above all mark his manner of expressing his sentiments on public affairs ," while Quintilian, after commending Alcaeus for his excellence " in that part of his works where he inveighs against tyrants and contributes to good morals ; in his language he is concise, exalted, careful and often like an orator ;" goes on to add: " but he descended into wantonnness and amours, though better fitted for higher things.

Hume was disappointed with the reception of the Treatise, which " fell stillborn from the press ," as he put it, and so tried again to disseminate his more developed ideas to the public by writing a shorter and more polemical work.