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The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.
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Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything.
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Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
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We need our highest judicial body to stop this childish bickering and get back to debating the kinds of weighty constitutional issues that have absorbed the court in recent years, such as whether a city can legally force an exotic dancer to cover her entire nipple, or just the part that pokes out.
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I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.
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We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.
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I realize that I'm generalizing here, but as is often the case when I generalize, I don't care.
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There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary.
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Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.
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The first major president to be elected after the War of 1812 was President Monroe Doctrine, who became famous by developing the policy for which he is named. This policy, which is still in effect today, states that:
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Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
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In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid.
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We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.
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The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.
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Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.
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'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'.
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If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.
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We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin.
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As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.
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If you were to open up a baby's head - and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should - you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland.
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Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.
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Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.
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The best way to learn Japanese is to be born as a Japanese baby, in Japan, raised by a Japanese family.