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Where the heavyweight tournament is chewing up money for old rope, full of over-the-hill fighters cashing in on their residual name value, the welterweight tournament might be the most exciting piece of matchmaking to happen in mixed martial arts in the last five years.
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She put them all, apart from one, in a skip as she did not have enough space to dry nor store the wet paintings. The price of her paintings "doubled virtually overnight",Barnes, Anthony. "Money for old rope (expect a big run on toilet paper art)", The Independent on Sunday, 21 March 2004. Retrieved 18 December 2008.
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"Money for old rope," he has said subsequently. The decision later backfired on Teletext, when Digitiser's viewing figures plummeted to 400,000 per day from its peak of 1.5 million, and viewers spent the next nine months inundating the company with letters of complaint, demanding that Digitiser's humour and characters be restored. After thousands of emails and letters had poured into Teletext they were forced to go back on their previous decision, and asked Biffo to reinstate the humour, and return Digitiser to its daily glory. However, for Biffo the damage had been done, and his last shreds of faith in the company had been shattered.
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Glass speaks at a Christian Solidarity International event in 2015 Charles Glass (born January 23, 1951) is an American-British author, journalist, broadcaster and publisher specializing in the Middle East and the Second World War. He was ABC News chief Middle East correspondent from 1983–93, and has worked as a correspondent for Newsweek and The Observer. He writes regularly for The New York Review of Books and his work has appeared in newspapers and magazines, and on television networks, all over the world. Glass is the author of Tribes With Flags: A Dangerous Passage Through the Chaos of the Middle East (1991) and a collection of essays, Money for Old Rope: Disorderly Compositions (1992).
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Lennon employs the recurring lyric "Money for rope/Money for dope", being the former phrase a variation of the British idiom "Money for old rope" (a profit obtained by little or no effort). In a review of the Imagine album, music critic Robert Christgau said that the song "unites Lennon unmasked with the Lennon of Blunderland wordplay as it provides a rationale for 'Jealous Guy,' which doesn't need one, and 'How Do You Sleep?,' which may". Lisa Wright of the NME ranked "Gimme Some Truth" as Lennon's fifth greatest solo song, stating that in the song Lennon "tried to sift through the maelstrom of media bullshit to find the light at the end of the tunnel" and concluding that "scorn never sounded so good".
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