Known as " Thommo ", he was one of the fastest bowlers ever to play Test cricket and was the opening partner of fellow fast bowler Dennis Lillee ; their combination was one of the most fearsome in Test cricket history.

* Brian " Thommo " Thompson ( Bruno Lawrence ) is the executive producer during series 1.

Thompson is so fast and human reaction time is so slow that scientists have calculated that the batsman has to begin playing a stroke against him more than. 062 of a second before ' Thommo ' lets go of the ball ".

So Thommo begins-the high stepping gait of a thoroughbred, bowling hand bobbing at waist level and the ball visible.

Then, in the split second before delivery, at gather, Thommo drags one leg behind the other in a sort of Swan Lake crossover, sways back and hides the ball behind his right knee-unconventional and very unsettling.

He always made it a point to record Sam's lines at the end of a recording session so he wouldn't have to play other characters with a hoarse voice.

Other characters, including Sam's secretary Miss Brown, Dinah's psychotherapist, and a listener in the hat shop — likely one of Dinah's female friends — are spoken to in certain scenes but never seen or heard.

Both characters are introduced in the last season of The Andy Griffith Show ( TAGS ), beginning with Sam's election as head of town council.

Scott D. Pierce from The Deseret News found him too " old and " Nevertheless, John Martin, a syndicate from The New York Times, enjoyed Sam's interaction with main characters of Frasier.

The Discworld characters are drawn in the same style as Vimes and Young Sam, but the pastel animals are still present, and all three settings ( the world of Where's My Cow ?, the streets of Ankh-Morpork, and Young Sam's nursery ) begin blurring together.

they are also probably ungrateful for Uncle's Sam's bounty.

( Jodie, Freddi, and Samantha are Joe, Fred and Sam's great-granddaughters.

With no successful results so far, Rear Admiral Al Calavicci ( Dean Stockwell ), Sam's long-time friend and senior officer on the program, is told by the government that they are looking to shut down the funding.

The nature for Sam's leaps are uncontrolled and unknown to the Project Quantum Leap team, attributing it to " God, time, fate, or whatever ", but generally to " put right what once went wrong ", as per the opening narration.

In a trilogy of episodes, " The Evil Leaper ", Sam meets a similar time traveler that is forced to jump between people by some outside force, but in order to counter Sam's own efforts, making things worse off than they are.

Tolkien called Sam the " chief hero " of the saga in one of his letters: he places special emphasis on Sam's " rustic love " for Rosie, a union that serves to establish a family in which allusions to Elvish wonders ( embodied in Sam's daughter Elanor ) are combined with the best qualities of traditional Shire-life.

Most of the hobbits ' travels in Mordor are seen through Sam's point of view: including his spying on Gollum when the creature debates with himself ; the battle with Shelob ; Frodo's rescue from the orcs ; and the final confrontation at Mount Doom.

He and Sonny are among the meager group attending the final screening at Sam's old movie house, which is no longer a viable business.

There are more than 1, 300 commercial and industrial businesses and services within the city's, and the city is proud to have a majority of small businesses, as well as more than 100 major companies within its borders, such as Best Buy, Coca Cola, Commercial Steel Treating Corporation, Costco, CVS Pharmacy, Henkel Technologies, Home Depot, Kmart, Meijer, Micro Center, Ogura Corporation, Sam's Club, Hungry Howie's, Target, UPS, WOW !, Culver's, and Sears.

In attendance are the foster family, Sam's friendship group, and a newly-single Rita with her son.

Costco, BJ's Wholesale Club, and Sam's Club are examples of warehouse clubs.

Sam's commands take such selections as basic — more or less as other Unix tools treat lines ; thus, multi-line and sub-line patterns are as naturally handled by Sam as whole-line patterns are by ed, vi, AWK, Perl, etc.

If Sam and Abigail are on different trains in near-lightspeed relative motion, Sam measures ( by all methods of measurement ) clocks on Abigail's train to be running slowly and similarly, Abigail measures clocks on Sam's train to be running slowly.

The British actors who played Fat Sam's gang are also reunited at Pinewood Studios.

* A name for the island where Jack Sparrow and Elizabeth Swann are marooned in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is Black Sam's Spit.

There are two eateries in the area, Sam's Chinese and the Toby Inn restaurant, pub & hotel.

In time, the volumes are left in the care of Sam's eldest daughter, Elanor Fairbairn, and her descendants ( the Fairbairns of the Towers or Wardens of Westmarch ).

Another category of stores sometimes included in the hypermarket category is the membership-based wholesale warehouse clubs that are popular in North America, pioneered by Fedco and today including Sam's Club, a division of Wal-Mart ; Costco, in which Carrefour has a small ownership percentage ;, BJ's Wholesale Club on the East Coast and Clubes City Club in Mexico.

A running gag throughout the film demonstrates Sam's stepsisters participating in synchronized swimming, for which they are found to have absolutely no talent.

Shortly after the 2004 Supreme Court ruling, Discover also struck its first deal to have its card issued by another bank, GE Consumer Finance, which now issues three cards for retailer Wal-Mart and its wholesale warehouse stores, Sam's Club ; transactions for both cards are processed on the Discover Network.

A scout in another Indian war would say of soldiers, " Uncle Sam's boys are too slow for this kind of work.

Blanc used a voice similar to Yosemite Sam's for Mr. Spacely on The Jetsons.

Sam's command syntax is formally similar to ed's or ex's, containing ( structural -) regular expression based conditional and loop functions and scope addressing, even sharing some of ed's syntax for such functions.

The Zeros, the Nams, the Happy Hickories, the family of Sam Sixty ( named for Sam's IQ ) and the Doolittles were other family aliases used in similar works of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

For example, Julian West is taken to a store which ( with its descriptions of cutting out the middleman to cut down on waste in a similar way to the consumers ' cooperatives of his own day based on the Rochdale Principles of 1844 ) somewhat resembles a modern warehouse club like BJ's, Costco, or Sam's Club.

Wal-Mart also markets a type of carbonated water similar to soda under the Sam's American Choice label, although the word American has been phased out.

* One of Sam's sayings in the game is " Ooh Yeah " similar to how Whitney Houston sung it in her song " Queen of the Night.

Sam's hair and facial design is similar to Sonic the Hedgehog, of whom Sam Logan is a self-confessed fan.

The character himself has a voice similar to Sam's and Foghorn Leghorn's, only slightly less raucous.

Old Sam's sixty-five years had reduced his value to $150 ; ;

" The other major insertion is a scene that plays in Sam's café, where Genevieve watches while an amiable Sonny and a revved-up Duane decide to take their road trip to Mexico ; it precedes the exterior scene outside the poolhall when they tell Sam of their plans, the last time they will ever see him.

Sam's ghost arises from his dead body, which lies next to the distraught Molly ; he gradually realizes that he is a ghost whose presence cannot be seen or heard.

As Carl attempts to flee through a plate glass window, he flings a scaffolding hook in Sam's direction which swings back and partially shatters the glass in the upper part of the window ; the window slides down and kills Carl as he climbs out.

This time, DCI Rachel Selway ( Nicola Redmond ) became the main detective, although her superior officer, Superintendent Peter Ross ( Mick Ford ), an ex-boyfriend of Sam's, had a stronger relationship with the pathology lab ; he and Sam resumed their romance, but it ended with the last episode of the series.

Sam's own cockiness gets the best of him ; Bugs can see he is incapable of turning down a challenge.

A running gag in Yosemite Sam cartoons is that Sam's animals ( camel, elephant, dragon ) or airplanes never stop when he wants them to ; Sam then loses his temper and bonks the offending animal / machine.

* Sam's Town Shreveport ( formerly Harrah's Shreveport ; acquired from Harrah's Entertainment in 2004 ).

For many years, TVS produced sports and entertainment programming from Las Vegas including The Alan King Tennis Championship at Caesars Palace ; Arm Wrestling at the Imperial Palace, Fun Moments in Sports at Bally's ; Bowling from Sam's Town and the Showboat ; The Ladies Pro Bowlers Tour ( LPBT ), and One Club Golf from the Desert Inn.

It has been suggested that Sam's father was a watchman in Jingo and he is a descendant of Suffer-Not-Injustice " Old Stoneface " Vimes, the Watch Commander who instigated the rebellion against, and subsequently beheaded, Lorenzo the Kind, the last king of the city ; a sadistic torturer described as " very fond of children.

Here Sam experiences his moment of empathy ; also here they see a mûmak, to Sam's terror and delight.

Sam's legacy continues into the 21st century with media references including ;

In an interview with Sam's brother and manager Bill Kinison, Bill mentioned movie deals that were in development at the time of his death ; one such deal was a movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger, and another with Rick Moranis.

Its main competitors are national grocery chains IGA, Kroger, SuperValu, and Whole Foods ; consolidated retail and warehouse chains, including Wal-Mart, Target, Kmart, Costco, Sam's Club and BJ's Wholesale Club ; and several regional grocery chains, including BI-LO, Fresh Market, Piggly Wiggly, Sweetbay, Winn-Dixie, and Ingles.