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"; and clothes
Many gags focus on this ; his inability to get a date is usually attributed to his lack of social skills, his poor taste in clothes ( Garfield remarked in one strip after seeing his closet that " two hundred moths committed suicide "; in another, the " geek police " ordered Jon to " throw out his tie "), and his eccentric interests which range from stamp collecting to measuring the growth of his toenails to watching movies with " polka ninjas ".
The toga was not worn, but rather the synthesis, i. e. colorful, informal " dinner clothes "; and the pileus ( freedman's hat ) was worn by everyone.
Although hair, dander, and saliva can be minimized, they are still present and can stick to " clothes and the carpets and furnishings in your home "; inhaling the allergens, or being licked by the dog, can trigger a reaction in a sensitive person.
Ladenson lists both his family name and his first name as being related to gold (" Auric " is an adjective pertaining to gold ); his clothes, hair, car and cat are all gold coloured, or a variant thereof ; his Korean servants are referred to by Bond as being " yellow ", or yellow-faced "; and he paints his women ( normally prostitutes ) gold before sex.
A constantly repeated theme in the book's background are the social, cultural and physical differences between these two locations: Norrland is more sedate, conservative and slow-moving in comparison with the cosmopolitan Stockholm ; a Stockholmer having to live for an extended period in Norrland feels " exiled to the back of beyond "; Norrland is also colder and a Stockholmer coming there must urgently buy warmer clothes ; Norrlanders often speak regional dialects which Stockholm people find nearly incomprehensible ; Stockholm people look down their noses at " a working class boy from Norrland " even when he had lived many years in Stockholm.
Although hair, dander, and saliva can be minimized, they are still present and can stick to " clothes and the carpets and furnishings in your home "; inhaling them, or being licked by the dog, can trigger a reaction in a sensitive person.
His highland clothes invite suspicion that he is an " anointer "; that is, a foreign agent deliberately spreading plague in some way.
* the clothes worn in the 1967 television broadcast of " All You Need Is Love ";
A CNN reviewer felt, upon reading the book, that " Bret Easton Ellis is a gifted writer "; he praised his " unflinching eye " in capturing the details of " the ensemble worn by a notorious clothes horse, or the grisly aftermath of a hotel bombing, or the graphic details of a menage a trois.
The attempts include: a Cyrano de Bergerac-type seduction whereby Studley tells Pondo what to say to a girl via a remote microphone ; sending Pondo to buy elegant new clothes ( he goes to the Punk store by mistake and leaves looking like Quasimodo ); taking massive quantities of drugs because " girls love drugs "; and using the world's biggest vibrater, the Moby-M5 ( the M-5 episode provides a pretext for a scene where two porn store employees discuss strategic arms limitation treaties, using various dildos as props ).

"; and fit
He was cast as Fett because the costume happened to fit " as if a Savile Row tailor had come out and made it "; he did not have to do a reading or a screen test, and Bulloch never worked from a script for either film.
Bob's design was updated for " Krusty Gets Busted "; as the episode's animation style evolved, director Brad Bird made the character of Sideshow Bob sleeker and more refined, to fit Grammer's voice technique.
Stephen King, in his introduction to Different Seasons, a collection of four novellas, has called the novella " an ill-defined and disreputable literary banana republic "; King notes the difficulties of selling a novella in the commercial publishing world, since it does not fit the typical length requirements of either magazine or book publishers.
By 1851 the " Chaumont suite " of early-16th century Late Gothic tapestries with subjects of courntry life emblemmatic of the triumph of Eternity, closely associated with Chaumont and now at the Cleveland Museum of Art, was still hanging in the " Chambre de Catherine de Médicis "; the tapestries had been cut and pieced to fit the room.
*" It shall be lawful for His Most Gracious Majesty by His Royal Proclamation under the Great Seal of the Realm, issued within six months after the passing of this Act, to make such alteration in the style and titles at present appertaining to the Crown as to His Majesty may seem fit ";
In one of the few times that Dixon is seen to lose his temper, he furiously declares there to be nothing worse than " a bent copper ", and forces Carr to take off the uniform jacket he is " not fit to wear "; only once Carr has done this does Dixon arrest him.
Hinduism places faith in a Vedic proclamation which states that " Truth is One, though the sages know it by many names "; Hinduism has no conversion / reconversion rituals whatsoever — one is free to choose any religion he / she wants, follow any philosophy or belief one fancies and worship any god in a manner he / she deems fit.
He cites legends describing Gun as " the naked one " and " dark fish "; both names that " fit quite well the eel.
The band has stated that while they do not disown or regret the song " Feels Good to Me "; it was put on the album solely to be released as a single and doesn't fit in musically with the rest of the record.
In August of that year, Campbell Soup Company announced it was " exploring strategic alternatives, including possible divestiture, for its Godiva Chocolatier business "; the company said the " premium chocolate business does not fit with Campbell's strategic focus on simple meals ".
In Darwin's theory, infinitesimal hereditary variation arises automatically in response to the effect of " altered conditions of life " on " the sexual organs "; whenever conditions change, adaptation happens automatically ( and by infinitesimal increments ) as selection preserves fluctuations that fit the new conditions.
Recall that linear regression is not symmetric: the line of best fit for predicting y from x ( the usual linear regression ) is not the same as the line of best fit for predicting x from y ( see, for example, Draper & Smith, " Applied Regression Analysis "; page 5 of the 1966 edition ).
Caesarius mentions a blessing given by the bishop at the end of Lucernarium, " cumque expleto Lucernario benedictionem populo dedisset "; and the following is an order of the Council of Agde ( canon 30 ):" Et quia convenit ordinem ecclesiae ab omnibus aequaliter custodiri studendum est ut ubique fit et post antiphonas collectiones per ordinem ab episcopis vel presbyteris dicantur et hymni matutini vel vesperenti diebus omnibus decantentur et in conclusione matutinarum vel vespertinarum missarum post hymnos, capitella de psalmis dicantur et plebs collecta oratione ad vesperam ab Episcopo cum benedictione dimittatur ".
The other was a bare mechanism, designed to fit into the preexisting case sculpted by Carlo Franzoni in 1819 and titled " Car of History "; it depicts Clio, the Greek muse of history in a chariot.

"; and me
The film's title was inspired by the line, " Bring me my chariot of fire ," from the William Blake poem adapted into the popular British hymn " Jerusalem "; the hymn is heard at the end of the film.
5: " I made me gardens and orchards ( pardes ), and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits "; and in Nehemiah ii.
And when all my hopes in them and in all men were gone, so that I had nothing outwardly to help me, nor could tell what to do, then, oh, then, I heard a voice which said, " There is one, even Christ Jesus, that can speak to thy condition "; and when I heard it my heart did leap for joy.
To the northwest of the living room are the laundry room, garage, dining room, smoking room, drawing room, housekeeper's quarters, and kitchen ; a popular command allows players in the living room to push others into the kitchen and ask them to " fetch me a cup of tea "; since players can prevent themselves from being moved in such a fashion, this command is more often used on new users, who may have difficulty finding their way back to the Living Room.
His motto was Loyaulte me lie, " Loyalty binds me "; and his personal device was a white boar.
When he came to mount the steps to the scaffold, he is widely quoted as saying ( to the officials ): " I pray you, I pray you, Mr Lieutenant, see me safe up and for my coming down, I can shift for myself "; while on the scaffold he declared that he died " the king's good servant, but God's first.
Tennessee Williams commented that Leigh brought to the role " everything that I intended, and much that I had never dreamed of "; but, in later years, Leigh would say playing Blanche DuBois " tipped me over into madness.
In explaining his refusal to be conscripted to fight the Vietnam War ( 1965 – 75 ), professional boxer Muhammed Ali said, " No Vietcong ever called me nigger "; later, his modified answer was the title No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger ( 1968 ) of a documentary about the front-line lot of the US Army Black soldier in combat in Vietnam.
* the dative " mihi " (" to me ") is spelled " michi ";
Lennon said " Yes It Is " was " me trying a rewrite of ' This Boy ', but it didn't work "; it was released as the B-side of " Ticket to Ride " and was also on Beatles VI.
While in delirium, Wood overheard the doctor murmuring and calling her a " goddamn juvenile delinquent "; she soon yelled to Ray, " Did you hear what he called me, Nick?!
She began her career billing herself as " That Fucking Dyke "; she states " I called myself that because I would walk down the street and people would yell ( it ) at me.
She wrote that she " had major battles with the musical director ", one concerning the term " vamp "; " he never waited for me to finish my dialogue.
* He appears in the FBI lineup in " The Springfield Files ", an episode of The Simpsons ( wearing purple helmet and skirt, instead of the usual green for both ) in which he utters his famous catchphrase " This makes me very angry "; with other
These scenes, in his own words, " made me a painter, and I am grateful "; " the sound of water escaping from mill dams etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things.
On April 12, 1998, an event promoted as an online chat with Koko took place on AOL. The transcript of this event, available on many locations on the Internet, contains at least one instance of Koko making a statement resembling a sentence: " Lips fake candy give me "; uttered while Koko was trying to get Patterson to give her a treat.
During this interview, Chris did not seem sorry about the breakup ; he was quoted as saying, " Well, I was a naughty boy " and said about Ingrid, " She wouldn't trust me with a pint of milk "; however, in other interviews he showed clear remorse.
The Bible offers two explanations of name Yosef: first it is compared to the word asaf from the root /' sp /, " taken away ": " And she conceived, and bare a son ; and said, God hath taken away my reproach "; Yosef is then identified with the similar root / ysp /, meaning " add ":" And she called his name Joseph ; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son.
Esarhaddon ( Akkadian: Aššur-ahhe-iddina " Ashur has given a brother to me "; Aramaic: ; ; ; ), was a king of Assyria who reigned 681 – 669 BC.
On May 27, 1928, Peer had the group travel to the Victor Camden, New Jersey studios, where they recorded many of what would become their signature songs, including: " Meet me by the Moonlight Alone "; " Keep On the Sunny Side "; " Can the Circle be Unbroken "; " Little Darling, Pal of Mine "; " Forsaken Love "; " Anchored in Love "; " I Ain't Goin ' to Work Tomorrow "; " Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone "; " Wildwood Flower "; " River of Jordan "; " Chewing Gum "; and " John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man ".

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