During actual play, more common terms are " two craps two " during the comeout roll because the pass line bet is lost on a comeout crap roll and / or because a bet on any craps would win.

The big crap game is adapted from the story " Blood Pressure ".

He is the type of director I don't like to work with ... the picture is a crock of crap.

He was antisocial because he knew society was crap ; he was a hero to youth because he was strong enough not to take the crap ... Brando represented a contemporary version of the free American ... Brando is still the most exciting American actor on the screen.

In the United States, although the use of the word is censored on broadcast network television ( while its synonym crap is not usually subject to censorship ), the FCC permitted some exceptions.

In an interview with the Chairman of the Arts Council of England Gerry Robinson Ali G's first question was: " Why is it that everything you fund is so crap?

The word crap is actually of Middle English origin ; and hence predates its application to bodily waste.

Sturgeon's revelation, commonly referred to as Sturgeon's law, is an adage commonly cited as " ninety percent of everything is crap.

The second adage, variously rendered as " ninety percent of everything is crud " or " ninety percent of everything is crap ", was originally known as " Sturgeon's Revelation ", formulated as such in his book review column for Venture.

Britain is crap at being entrepreneurial because ( a ) it's a risk averse country, and ( b ) the stigma of failure is so high that if you fail you're considered to be a loser.

Moon himself is a low-rent but likeable sort of riff-raff, involved in get-rich schemes and bootleg whiskey, crap games and staying out all night with disreputable friends.

Richard Belzer defines The Big Lie, in his book UFOs, JFK, and Elvis: Conspiracies You Don't Have To Be Crazy To Believe, this way: " If you tell a lie that's big enough, and you tell it often enough, people will believe you are telling the truth, even when what you are saying is total crap.

Going through rehab, honestly, did help, and I'm not .... it got me away from just the daily drudgery of depression and either trying to not drink or do drugs or doing them and you know, they give you such a simple message that any idiot can get and it's just over and over, but the bottom line is really, and this is the part that is scary for everyone, the individual kinda has to want it ... not kinda, you have to want it and to not do that crap anymore or you will never stop and it will just kill you.

The Review also said that My Best Friend's Wedding is a perfect date movie, and a film that proves Roberts isn't as crap as we all thought she was.

" Yossarian replies, " It is a lot of crap, sir.

Owen went over to the crap table and the dice were hot, but he couldn't pyramid with any consecutive success.

Love has publicly expressed her regret over the record several times, calling it " a crap record ", reasoning that her drug issues at the time were to blame.

The band's sometimes brash sound did not go over all that well with the Weezer crowd, and Gentling later said of the tour, " It wasn't as much that we didn't like the Weezer guys, but the opening bands get treated like crap by the people who work ( at the venues ).

Streeter is subsequently dropped, described dismissively by Schreiber: " that Jethro Tull concept crap was over five years ago ".

So they can print that crap all they want all over their locker room.

In the segment, Santa hangs out with liberal celebrities Natalie Merchant, Margaret Cho, Al Franken, and Moby while skipping over the Red states (" screw the red states, voting for that dumbass president just because of that moral values crap.

Richards told The Yale Herald, " Duchamp would go over to the Yale University Art Gallery and he would say, ' This is crap ,' and he would go paint a picture.

Rage over all the crap we have to deal with since Janet Jackson showed her 67 year old boob.

All retailers care about is how it's formatted and what it costs ... For a long time, America has seen nothing but the best of the Japanese comics, but there's lots of crap over there.

Apologizing to those who " had to come all the way up here to hear this crap!

: Fours clap, Dogs crap in the grass here

While reviewing the eleventh season of The Simpsons, DVD Movie Guide's Colin Jacobson commented: " We ’ ve seen ' the family goes to crap without Marge around ' episodes in the past, so don ’ t expect any reinvented wheels here.

" Aces ; double the field " would be a more common call when not on the comeout roll to remind the dealers to pay double on the field bets and encourage the field bettor to place subsequent bets and / or when no crap bets have been placed.

Lesser taboo terms include " pony and trap " for " crap " ( as in defecate, but often used to denote nonsense or low quality ); to blow a raspberry ( rude sound of derision ) from raspberry tart for " fart "; " D ' Oyly Carte " for " fart "; " Jimmy Riddle " for " piddle " ( as in urinate ), " J. Arthur Rank " ( a film mogul ), or " ham shank " for " wank ", " Bristol Cities " ( contracted to ' Bristols ') for " titties ", etc.

Euphemisms such as crap are not used in this context.

Again, other slang words of the same meaning, crap for example, are not used in such locutions.

( e. g., " crap " for feces, " dick " for penis, " fat " for overweight, etc.

It has often been claimed in popular culture that the slang term for human bodily waste, " crap ", originated with Thomas Crapper because of his association with lavatories.

Media covering the convention quickly pointed out that if one added the word " Party " to the end of the party's name, the resulting initials were " CCRAP " ( humorously pronounced " see-crap " or just " crap ") even though it, like the Bloc Québécois, didn't actually have the word party in its name.

It was quite a piece of crap and was received with great anticipation and crushing disappointment at the radio level.

Albarn's first words directed at Coxon were " Your brogues are crap, mate.

Periodically on SNL he sang classical music: once a Mozart aria when guest-host Walter Matthau designated him as a " musical guest ... in place of the usual crap ", and once a Schubert lied while the titles on the screen purported to express his colleagues ' displeasure at having to accommodate a misguided request by him.

Long-time co-manager Chris O ' Donnell also left at this time, later stating, " A once-brilliant band was turning to crap before my very eyes.

This is softer than earlier Powell amendments which would have denied funds to all segregated school districts.

Surgical drainage of the abscess ( e. g., lancing ) is usually indicated once the abscess has developed from a harder serous inflammation to a softer pus stage.

While the use of iron started to become more widespread around 1200 BC, mainly because of interruptions in the trade routes for tin, the metal is much softer than bronze.

Because it is softer than most other metals in general use, brass is often used in situations where it is important that sparks not be struck, as in fittings and tools around explosive gases.

On the other hand, nylon thread is more suited to peyote stitch because it is softer and more pliable than fishing line, which permits the beads of the stitch to sit straight without undue tension bending the arrangement out of place.

In many cases, this causes the structure of the material to become softer or more friable – meat becomes cooked and is more friable and less flexible.

Boudin is typically stuffed in a natural casing and has a softer consistency than other, better-known, sausage varieties.

New York style Cheddar cheese is particularly sharp, and usually slightly softer than milder Cheddar varieties.

Double bass rosin is generally softer and stickier than violin rosin to allow the hair to grab the thicker strings better, but players use a wide variety of rosins that vary from quite hard ( like violin rosin ) to quite soft, depending on the weather, the humidity, and the preference of the player.

This process often occurs in English ( e. g. speed or crank for meth ) and is really slang formation, as it often is not intended to substitute a softer term.

The turnip has traditionally been used in Ireland and Scotland at Halloween, but immigrants to North America used the native pumpkin, which is both much softer and much larger – making it easier to carve than a turnip.

Annealing brass to make it softer and less brittle is fairly easy, but annealing cartridge cases is a more complex matter.

A stick and puck are used as in hockey ( the puck is a softer version called a " sponge puck "), and the same soft-soled shoes used in broomball are worn.

Most of the time, one side is left as bare wood while the other side may be covered in leather or a softer material such as piano felt.

Pure iron is soft ( softer than aluminium ), but is unobtainable by smelting.

* Wet paint is placed into wet paint without waiting for successive applications to dry, producing softer edges and intermingling of colour.

In the standard process of making type, a hard metal punch ( made by punchcutting, with the letter carved back to front ) is hammered into a softer copper bar, creating a matrix.

A typical Victorian koala ( formerly P. cinereus victor ) has longer, thicker fur ; is a darker, softer grey, often with chocolate-brown highlights on the back and forearms ; and has a more prominently light-coloured ventral side and fluffy white ear tufts.