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`` Why pick me for your patsy??
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Did TV commercials in the 1960s for Muriel Cigars, with the somewhat racy line at the time " Why don't you pick me up and smoke me some time?
She remained the pitch-lady for Muriel well after Kovacs ' death, intoning in a Mae West style and sexy outfit, " Why don't you pick one up and smoke it sometime?
Four days before publication, a review in the authoritative Athenaeum ( by John Leifchild, published anonymously, as was the custom at that time ) was quick to pick out the unstated implications of " men from monkeys " already controversial from Vestiges, saw snubs to theologians, summing up Darwin's " creed " as man " was born yesterday – he will perish tomorrow " and concluded that though " The work deserves attention and will, we have no doubt, meet with it ", theologians would say " Why construct another theory to exclude Deity from renewed acts of creation?
Chesher, Chris ( 2002 ) ' Why the digital computer is dead ' in Ctheory electronic journal: http :// ctheory. net / text_file. asp? pick = 334
Why and me
`` Why '', he went on, `` when Rob asked me if he could make his dive on this trip, I didn't think twice about it.
Why, that's what gave me the feeling, gave me as-it-were the spirit, the demoniac, evil spirit of this whole affair.
Why, when I drove down to church, didn't it speak to me, seeing the lights still on and the day crisp and clear??
Why this should have happened is, to me, the most profound mystery facing modern biology " Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene.
In the book Why I Am Still a Catholic: Essays in Faith and Perseverance by Peter Stanford, the television presenter Dermot O ' Leary describes his upbringing as " classic plastic paddy ", where he would be " bullied in a nice way " by his own cousins in Wexford for being English " until anyone else there called me English and then they would stick up for me.
Upon seeing the spirit of Samuel Saul fell with his face to the ground and Samuel asked Saul " Why have you disquieted me, to bring me up?
Why and for
Why, for example, should the ancients have supposed the diurnal rotation of the heavens to be elliptical??
Why should CTA regular riders subsidize reduced transportation for old people any more than the people who drive their own cars or walk to work should??
Why it was ever forgotten for even a moment I cannot say because it works perfectly for everyone, no matter whether he has short or long thigh-bone lengths!!
* Video ( Princeton University, September 7, 2003 )-" Assembly for the Class of 2007: ' D is for Digital and Why It Matters '"
Some of the driving research questions in studying how the brain itself processes language include: ( 1 ) To what extent is linguistic knowledge innate or learned ?, ( 2 ) Why is it more difficult for adults to acquire a second-language than it is for infants to acquire their first-language ?, and ( 3 ) How are humans able to understand novel sentences?
Some questions in the study of visual perception, for example, include: ( 1 ) How are we able to recognize objects ?, ( 2 ) Why do we perceive a continuous visual environment, even though we only see small bits of it at any one time?
See Hicks ' account of it referenced above for details, or for an alternate and more current explanation, Cristobal Kay's " Why East Asia Overtook Latin America: Agrarian Reform, Industrialization, and Development.
Though neither of the album's two singles, "( Why Don't More Women Sing ) Honky Tonk Songs " and " Salt in my Tears ", charted, videos for both songs received significant airplay on CMT.
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