It's also liberal poppycock that there aren't smart conservatives or evangelicals.
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He is a poppycock painter, perfect in his personifying puffy profiteering.
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Her arguments are pure poppycock, either totally absurd or completely useless.
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Which is poppycock of course, but the rhetoric is admirably rudimentary.
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This is ennobling poppycock, as those fiendish "Better Call Saul" writers certainly know.
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Americans: did you know that the very British-sounding word "poppycock" actually came from America?
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"For any company to say no government has influence over it is poppycock," he said.
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"That's just a bunch of poppycock," said Storch, chief executive officer of Storch Advisors, a consulting firm.
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Now, I know some will try to play the "Give me your tired, your poor" card. Poppycock!
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It could split the ANC and perhaps even spark violence in KwaZulu-Natal, Mr Zuma's home province. Poppycock.
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"They published these as Philistine burials or tombs or graves, but most of them are poppycock or balderdash," he said.
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The notion that phasing out coal would cause "brownouts and blackouts" or that "our businesses will come to a halt" is poppycock.
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Anyhow, despite all the poppycock, the animosity, the headlines, the impeachment without a trial, despite everything, despite even my own death, I feel surprisingly good.
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For months, Democrat talking heads portrayed Pelosi as a reluctant participant in this charade, someone who was restraining her party's most stridently anti-Trump elements. Poppycock.
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"No outsider has ever understood me so profoundly and precisely," he tells Ester, who falls hard for this poppycock since she's long on philosophizing and short on sense.
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" Speaking over Jones, Camerota read facts about the Holocaust, which Jones forcefully dismissed as "poppycock" and a "scam," and again referred to the Holocaust as an "extortion racket.
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Mr. Hens recounts a drive to the German city of Balderschwang, which sounds like a word an American politician would utter when something livelier than "poppycock" was required.
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" Peter Navarro and Wilbur Ross on Friday highlighted Clinton's "absurdist claim," noting it was "awarded 'Three Pinocchios' by the staunchly pro-Clinton Washington Post for purveying 'rhetorical poppycock.
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At the mercy of Germany Concerns over the Single Market being a whole load of poppycock are more relevant than ever, especially since the eurozone debt crisis of 0.053.
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For example, the answer to the clue "Talk Trash?" at 19A is UTTER RUBBISH, which is usually used to describe complete poppycock, or something nonsensical or thought to be incorrect.
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"I think that the rumors that Intel is going to buy Broadcom, rumors that we first heard last Friday, are, for lack of a better word, total poppycock, " Cramer countered.
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"Don't believe the syndicat's poppycock, we will go to the administrative tribunal and we will obtain a lot of money, that is how this will end," Gilles Alix, head of Autolib' SAS, told reporters.
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Contrary to the views of Emmett McGroarty and Jane Robbins ("Parents should still be concerned about Betsy DeVos," May 19), this is not intended to control behavior nor a foolish assertion (or, as the authors contend, "poppycock").
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Some fret that if Iowa loses its role as kingmaker, the nominating process will wind up dominated by megastates, like California, Florida and Texas, which would benefit candidates with massive bank accounts or near-universal name recognition. Poppycock.
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The Post also spoke with a witness there who claimed the Bolt Theory was "poppycock" because he heard what sounded like four or five gunshots—"loud...perhaps blanks, or from a tape"—and the televisions near him were showing CNN.
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The history of Poppycock is uncertain. According to Lincoln Snacks, Poppycock was invented by Howard Vair in the 1950s as a snack to accompany him on road trips. In 1960, Wander, a Swiss company, bought the rights to Poppycock and moved production to their Villa Park, Illinois, facility. However, in 1969, a snack matching the description of Poppycock was patented by Arnold Rebane, who worked for the Wander Company.
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John Andrew Quale is an American singer, songwriter, and performer best known by the stage name and persona of Prince Poppycock. Quale, who specializes in musical theater and opera, describes Prince Poppycock on his website as a "roguish operatic dandy."Prince Poppycock bio page for John Andrew Quale Ann Magnuson, Paper, February 2007.Roy Rogers Oldenkamp, "WeHo's Rise Up & Shout Debuts", WeHo News, August 9, 2007.
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From all the poppycock Anglice bosh you talked about poker, I'd ha' played a straight game, and skinned you.
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Poppycock production was moved from Villa Park to Lincoln, Nebraska and the Lincoln Snacks Company was created as an operating division of Sandoz-Warner.
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In 1991, Lincoln Snacks Company acquired Poppycock and on September 7, 2007, Lincoln Snacks was purchased by ConAgra Foods. The product is also now cross- branded with the Orville Redenbacher's brand.
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Poppycock came to national attention in 2010 when he competed on the fifth season of America's Got Talent. On September 15, 2010, he was voted fourth place in the final four.
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On Halloween, October 31, 2010, Prince Poppycock was crowned the honorary Mayor of West Hollywood for the Creative City's annual Halloween Carnaval."Prince Poppycock's 'Whirlwind' Rise to Fame Leads to This: Mayor of Halloween".
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Constance Ashton Myers, The Prophet's Army: Trotskyists in America, 1928-1941. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1977; pg. 112. This suggestion was dismissed as "poppycock" by SP Executive Secretary Clarence Senior, but the seed of the idea of joint action had been planted.Myers, The Prophet's Army, pg. 112.
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He was promoted captain in 1892.Matthew 2004, p283Travers 1987, pp. 287–8 He served on the Indian North West Frontier and took part in the Miranzai Expedition of 1891 and was wounded during the Waziristan Expedition of 1894–95.Gordon Corrigan, 'Mud, Blood and Poppycock', pp.
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The Lincoln Snacks Company (or Lincoln Snacks) was a manufacturer of caramelized popcorn and popcorn/nut mixes. Lincoln Snacks’ products are produced in Lincoln, Nebraska and sold nationally under the Poppycock, Fiddle Faddle and Screaming Yellow Zonkers (discontinued) brand names. Lincoln Snacks became a subsidiary of ConAgra Foods, Inc. on September 7, 2007.
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After the war Haig was praised by the American General John J. Pershing, who remarked that Haig was "the man who won the war".Gordon Corrigan, Mud, Blood and Poppycock, p. 204. He was also publicly lauded as the leader of a victorious army. His funeral in 1928 was a huge state occasion.
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More recently, she was interviewed on the 2005 BBC TV documentary,The Fall: The Wonderful and Frightening World of Mark E Smith. In 2016 Una continues to work in music with a predominantly female 8-piece group called Poppycock, for which she writes the songs, plays keyboards and occasional guitar and vocal.
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In interviews he has dismissed anthropogenic global warming as "poppycock", and opposed subsidies for wind power and solar power while favoring oil drilling offshore and in ANWR. Cain went on to say that "global warming" was not real but that "climate change" was and science has shown it not to be a crisis.
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The album was released December 2006. The record release party in the Disney Concert Hall's Redcat Theater was sold out, necessitating the addition of a second show. Guest artists for the shows included Candypants' Lisa Jenio, as well as Prince Poppycock. Two sold out shows at L.A.'s Steve Allen Theater followed quickly thereafter.
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The eleventh Player to appear, he is modeled after a knight, complete with a sword. He also tends to speak like a knight, using words like "tomfoolery" and "poppycock" in his speech. As a Player, he is able to move at superhuman speed. He serves Seiji, and follows him to his attack on Amagi Corp.
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Markham also felt the same wonder, and also found no clear answer. Wireman himself had read Markham's book, and scrawled "Poppycock!" on the flyleaf of his own personal copy. The book then proceeds to go back forty-four years, tracing Wireman's career to its very beginnings, and answering the questions which would elude all later observers.
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MacArthur became romantically involved with socialite and multi-millionaire heiress Louise Cromwell Brooks. They were married at her family's villa in Palm Beach, Florida on 14 February 1922. Rumors circulated that General Pershing, who had also courted Louise, had threatened to exile them to the Philippines if they were married. Pershing denied this as "all damn poppycock".
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He is also a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, a member of the British Commission for Military History and a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Farriers. Corrigan authored Mud, Blood and Poppycock, one of the more recent histories of the First World War which challenges a number of popular cultural beliefs about that conflict. Among the targets for his book are the beliefs that British generalship was incompetent, blinkered and reactionary and that the military justice system was unfair. The book received a positive review from historian Gary SheffieldThe Independent - Books Mud, Blood and Poppycock, by Gordon Corrigan Saturday, 2 August 2003 Corrigan later wrote Blood, Sweat and Arrogance: The Myths of Churchill's War in which he set out to demolish the "myths of Churchill's War".
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He was on General Herbert Kitchener's staff on the Nile Expedition of 1896.There was an expedition up the Nile that year, not to be confused with the more famous expedition to Omdurman in 1898.Gordon Corrigan, 'Mud, Blood and Poppycock', pp.198–9, He attended Staff College (where he was Master of Staff College Hounds) 1898–9.Travers 1987, pp.
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Riche disappeared between acts during one of the performances which was canceled and the audience was given their money back. A letter was found in her dressing room condemning her for appearing in an "immoral" production. She appeared two days later stating that she had been kidnapped, released and was found by gypsies in a woods. The story was dismissed by the police as "poppycock" .
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Cain favors offshore drilling and supports drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). He opposes providing funding and incentives by the government to particular corporations and industries for alternative energy sources such as solar and wind. He has made statements indicating a belief that anthropogenic global warming is a hoax, referring to it as "poppycock" and claiming that scientists were "busted" of having "manipulated the data".
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"Cynthia Wang and Jessica Herndon, "Secrets of 'America's Got Talent' top 10", People, September 7, 2010. The New York Post noted Poppycock embodies the sensibility of "humor, irony and sarcasm".Deborah Starr Seibel, "‘Talent’ scare: The night the buzzers went dead backstage", New York Post, August 22, 2010. He wears elaborate costuming and "dresses as if he stepped out of a French Baroque painting (pantaloons, powdered wig and pasty makeup).
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Her other plays have included Apple in the Eye, Diving, The House that Jack Built, It's Only Hot for Two Months in Kapuskasing, Poppycock, Prim and Duck, Mama and Frank, In Confidence, and Spanish Dancing in a Cold Climate. She published the short story collection Smiling Under Water in 1990,"Compelling characters from a feminist viewpoint". Vancouver Sun, March 24, 1990. and the novel Be Quiet in 2004.
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The Board of Control remained unmoved and, in spite of a heated selectors' meeting in which punches were thrown, Laver remained out favour with the Board. "Any suggestion that the players could have a free hand in selecting the manager was so much poppycock", declared Moyes. However, he managed a non-Test tour of New Zealand in the 1913/14 season. Altogether, Laver played 163 first-class matches in his career between 1891 and 1914.
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The Lincoln Snacks Company has roots in the Wander Company, a Swiss firm founded in Berne in 1865, which manufactured Ovaltine in Villa Park, Illinois. In 1960, Wander bought the rights to Poppycock, a snack consisting of caramelized popcorn and nuts, from Harold Vair, a Detroit candy shop owner. In 1968, Wander merged with Sandoz Nutrition Corporation, a division of Sandoz, to form Sandoz-Wander, Inc. (which is today the pharmaceutical company Novartis).
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In response to the views of many European settlers who wanted self- rule from Britain and continued European dominance over Africans and Asians, he described the view as puerile poppycock, being both impracticable and unworkable, contravening Christian ethics, British ideas of liberty and fair play and international agreements such as the Atlantic Charter.Davies, Malcolm. "Mau Mau Activities and the Unrest in Kenya." The Antioch Review 13, no. 2 (1953): 221-33. doi:10.2307/4609634.
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Blue Man was bred by Allen T. Simmons at his Lexington, Kentucky horse farm, a property that had been part of the renowned Idle Hour Stock Farm. Blue Man's dam was Poppycock, a granddaughter of Man o' War. His sire was Blue Swords, who won several handicaps and ran second to Count Fleet in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes. Grandsire Blue Larkspur was the 1929 American Horse of the Year and a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee.
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The explosion was filmed by British cinematographer Geoffrey Malins, who was recording the 29th Division attack. The other mines were detonated at 7:28 am, two minutes before Zero hour when the infantry advance would begin. In many cases, including Hawthorne Ridge, the Germans were able to seize the craters before the British troops crossed No Man's Land.Gordon Corrigan, 'Mud, Blood and Poppycock', pp. 199–200, The Hawthorne Crater was to be seized by two companies.
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Hunter-Weston was born at Hunterston, West Kilbride, on 23 September 1864, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel John Gould Read Hunter-Weston (1823–1904), and his second wife, who was the daughter and heir of the 25th Laird of Hunterston.Matthew 2004, p283 He was educated at Wellington College 1875–82Travers 1987, pp. 287–8Matthew 2004, p283 and Woolwich in 1882,Matthew 2004, p283 then was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1884.Gordon Corrigan, 'Mud, Blood and Poppycock', pp.
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Riche disappeared between acts of one of the performances which was canceled and the audience was given their money back. A letter was found in her dressing room condemning her of appearing in an "immoral" production. She appeared two days later stating that she had been kidnapped, released and was found by gypsies in a wood. The story was dismissed by the police as "poppycock" and was seen as an attempt to promote press coverage about the play.
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Quale played the role of Jesus in the musical The Beastly Bombing, which won the LA Weekly Theater Award for Best Musical and enjoyed two short runs Off Broadway in NYC. He also performed and entertained at La Belle Epoque, with Ann Magnuson at Redcat,Lenora Claire, "19: Prince Poppycock: Randy Dandy", Frontiers's "Hot 25 of 2007". and has opened for The Dresden Dolls, Club Dandy, Wig Out, Dirty Deeds and Jer Ber Jones. Quale has studied voice for several years with Derek Graydon.
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Despite her claim that NAACP assertions of poor racial relations between the city and African Americans were "poppycock,"Virginia Beach Is Quiet After Violence. The New York Times; retrieved 2013-09-01. city actions in 1989 and in the years following so damaged race relations that it wasn't until two decades later, at the tail end of Obendorf's long-time mayoralty, that Virginia Beach again began to have success drawing large numbers of African Americans to the resort beachfront.The painful legacy of 1989's Greekfest endures.
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Having made his adult stage debut in 'Road' at the Audimax, Hamburg, Jeremy David Williams then performed in self-penned Poppycock! at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival.EdinburghGuide.com - Reviews: Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2005 2006-7 saw him as a regular with Midlands-based Rep company Struts, undertaking roles in Twelfth Night, Blood Wedding, Les Liaisons Dangereuses and The B.F.G. 2007 also saw his RSC debut, performing in Pippo Delbono's Henry V at the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. From July to August 2008 he appeared in Counterfeit Skin at the Courtyard Theatre, London.
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Additionally, Quale has been collaborating with Kristian Hoffman, songwriter for The Mumps and Klaus Nomi, on a rock album entitled The Solipsist's Soliloquy. Recently, John showed his support for the Trevor Project, a nationwide non-profit organization focused on suicide prevention efforts among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth, through his "It Gets Better" video. Quale developed the Prince Poppycock character, an opera singer who performs in the elaborate dress of a baroque dandy, in 2006 so he could perform in a Los Angeles nightclub show.Maria Sciullo, "Richland singer in close race on 'Talent'", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 08, 2010.
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Over the course of a 21 month period, over $1.5 million was siphoned from the chain to pay for 'wild parties with former playboy bunnies', as well as a $350,000 home for a Mafia associate. Barry Goldwater stated that the reports were, 'totally false,' and Robert called them, 'poppycock'. Articles published on days nine and ten examined Governor of Arizona, Raul Castro and his business linkage to Kemper Marley, a millionaire alcohol distributor implicated in the assassination of Don Bolle's by John Adamson, who had been arrested shortly after Bolles died. Days eleven, twelve and thirteen were centred around Ned Warren Sr. and his various business practices.
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A few weeks after the outbreak of the war in 1914, he led his brigade to France as part of 4th Division on the Western Front, including at the battles of Le Cateau and the Aisne, where he supervised his command from a motorbike (at a time when senior generals used cars and most other officers used horses). He "often appeared in the most surprising places" and his handling of the brigade was "skilful".Gordon Corrigan, 'Mud, Blood and Poppycock', pp. 199, His was the first British unit to cross the Aisne, on a damaged bridge.Matthew 2004, p283 His bravery and determination marked him out for promotion.
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St. Martin's Press, published Leading From Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisors Who Decide for Him in August, 2012, just as the 2012 presidential campaign entered its national phase. The book almost immediately became Miniter's third New York Times best seller. Miniter was attacked by CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen. Miniter's book alleged that Obama was indecisive and delayed when action was needed on the attack of bin Laden, which brought Bergen to state "Miniter's account of the intelligence that led to bin Laden and the decision- making surrounding the operation that killed him is a pile of poppycock served up with heaps of hogwash".
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141–142 Today at the Somme, there is a monument to the 36th (Ulster) Division at Thiepval, but only two little Celtic crosses to commemorate the 16th (Irish) Division.Corrigan, Gordan: Mud, Blood and Poppycock p. 289, Cassel Military Paperbacks (2004) The 16th (Irish) Division was made up of Irish nationalists and thus was predominantly Catholic, and for the best part of the rest of the 20th century it was almost eliminated from the historiography of the Great War, while at the same time the achievements of the 36th (Ulster) Division became part of the culture of Northern Irish Protestants.Duffy, Christopher: Through German Eyes "The British & the Somme 1916" pp.
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He described broken time payments as "poppycock" because they were "payments on the side" that enabled amateurs to make more money than professionals; even so, he was not saying anything new as the issue pre-dated even the Grace brothers.Williams, 129-130 After MCC announced their squad to tour Australia in 1958/59, Laker proposed to turn amateur for the duration of the tour and then become a professional again on his return to Surrey. His thinking was based on the possible misinformation that amateurs on the tour would be paid an allowance of £1,000 to cover their expenses while the professionals were to receive a fee of £800. MCC refused his request.
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Rotten Tomatoes reports that 6 of the 19 counted critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating was 4.79/10 and an approval rating of 32%. Roger Ebert gave the film two out of four stars and wrote that he was "not sure exactly what the movie is saying" and that by "the end of the movie we are conscious of large themes and deep thoughts, and of good intentions drifting out of focus." Owen Gleiberman, writing for Entertainment Weekly, gave the film a "C-" grade and commented that "visually, it's quite striking", but that it is "paranoid poppycock — just like the book". John Simon of the National Review called The Handmaid's Tale "inept and annoying".
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Screaming Yellow Zonkers box Screaming Yellow Zonkers was a popcorn snack food, produced and marketed by Lincoln Snacks in the USA from 1968-2007, with subsequent limited editions. Zonkers were noted for the bold graphics and funny text of their packaging. In 1968 Lincoln Snacks developed a nut-free, kosher sugar glazed popcorn with a strong yellow color -- as a variant of their other popcorn products, Fiddle Faddle and Poppycock. When Lincoln executives invited major ad agencies in Chicago to pitch ideas for a name and marketing concept, a small agency, Hurvis, Binzer & Churchill won the account, naming the product "Screaming Yellow Zonkers" and presenting it in a black box with bold graphics, detailed illustrations and funny text.
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Church critics have charged that many of the claims that Hubbard made about his own life and accomplishments are empirically false." The Private Eye review called this notion "poppycock", writing, "Everything about Scientology's founder is contested, though no one reading this book would realise that." As an example of disputed material about Hubbard's life, the review contrasted assertions by Melton about the military career of L. Ron Hubbard with documented United States Navy records cited by author Russell Miller in the biography, Bare-Faced Messiah. The Private Eye review concluded by criticizing Oxford University Press for publishing the book: "What is utterly mystifying is why one of the oldest and most respected publishing houses in the world chooses to give its imprimatur to this tendentious drivel.
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287–8 His mounted engineers cut Boer-controlled roads and railways, and cut the railway near Bloemfontein to prevent the Boers from reinforcing it. In 1900 he was promoted brevet lieutenant-colonel and awarded the DSO.Matthew 2004, p283 He was described as having "reckless courage combined with technical skill and great coolness in emergency",Gordon Corrigan, 'Mud, Blood and Poppycock', pp. 198–9, was mentioned in despatches (including 31 March 1900) and received the Queen's South Africa Medal. Hunter-Weston served on the Royal Engineers staff in London in late 1902, when he was appointed for duty at Shorncliffe Army Camp. He was a general staff officer in the Eastern Command from 1904 to 1908.Travers 1987, pp. 287–8 He married Grace Strang- Steel in 1905.
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Kent also directed attention to Giuliani's "disinformation" operation which planned to enroll a Ukrainian prosecutor to slander Trump opponents: Joseph Biden, Marie Yovanovitch, and Ukrainians believed to have circulated harmful information about Paul Manafort, Trump's campaign chairman, during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. Internal emails submitted by the State Department's inspector general show Kent criticizing a "fake news smear" about Yovanovitch, which were touted by conservative broadcasting commentators linked with Trump. In another email, he disapproved of the Ukrainian prosecutor who was circulating allegations about Yovanovitch and said they were "complete poppycock". He also testified that, after a May 2019 meeting arranged by Mick Mulvaney, he was mostly excluded from decisions about Ukraine policymaking, calling his exclusion by President Trump's insiders—Gordon Sondland, Kurt Volker, and Rick Perry—as "wrong".
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As commander of the Royal Naval Division, Shute had an intense dislike of its unconventional "nautical" traditions and made numerous unpopular attempts to stamp them out. He was particularly critical of the poor management of the latrines which could have led to an outbreak of dysentery.Gordon Corrigan Mud, Blood and Poppycock () p87-88 Following a particularly critical inspection of the trenches by Shute, an officer of the division, Sub-Lieutenant A. P. Herbert, who later became a famous humorous writer, legal satirist and Member of Parliament, wrote a popular poem that summed up the feelings of the men of the division:Martin Gilbert, The Somme, Henry Holt, 2006, p218 Although soldier songs hostile to superior officers were not rare, it is unusual to have a song aimed at a named officer.
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Both phenomena are common topics at the blog, as is linguification, or the use of metaphors that turn factual observations into claims about language in general (many of which are false). The blog has a number of recurring themes, including the difficulty of transcribing spoken utterances accurately, misuse or misunderstanding of linguistic science in the media, criticism of the popular style guide The Elements of Style by E. B. White and William Strunk Jr., and complaints about what the contributors see as the pedantry of ill- informed prescriptivists, including that of some copyeditors (one of the blog's tags is "prescriptivist poppycock"). In addition, the site has critically addressed opinions and theories related to the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis concerning the relationship between culture, thought and language. Another common topic on the blog is the handling of taboo language in the media.
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Gordon Corrigan, in Blood Mud and Poppycock, points out that it was Jacka's Australian superiors who chose not to recommend him for the award, and he argues that this may have been due to the fact that the Germans easily infiltrated Jacka's platoon position in broad daylight without being challenged. The sentries were most likely asleep or absent and Jacka should have ensured that they were not; as such it may have been perceived that while Jacka should be commended for his robust action in responding to the situation, he also bore a responsibility for allowing it to happen in the first place. After the incident, Jacka was evacuated to England, where he was promoted to lieutenant on 18 August 1916, but was falsely reported dead on 8 September. He attended an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle on 29 September; receiving his Victoria Cross from King George V, before rejoining his unit in November.
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For Round 1 of the semifinals (August 24) Quale performed a modified version "Bohemian Rhapsody", a song by the British rock band Queen, written by Freddie Mercury for the album A Night at the Opera (1975).Episode 527 The song has no chorus, instead consisting of three main parts—a ballad segment ending with a guitar solo, an operatic passage, and a heavy rock section. For the Top 10 show (September 7) Quale did a medley of "The Star-Spangled Banner", "The Yankee Doodle Boy", and "The Stars And Stripes Forever". In the middle he quoted from the second sentence of the United States' "Declaration of Independence", a sweeping statement of individual human rights, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal ..." While he spoke, images of American civil rights icons Abraham Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony, Harvey Milk, and Rosa Parks were shown as well as an image of Poppycock on a $3 bill.
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Immunologist Kristian G. Andersen, a specialist in communicable diseases and genomics who was one author of a March 2020 journal article in Nature Medicine entitled "The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2" which definitively stated the virus was not created in a lab, and Yujia Alina Chan, a postdoctoral researcher, both said the paper left out recent data related to coronavirus in pangolins and bats. Andersen further characterized the paper's prose with the statement: "It's using technical language that is impossible to decode for non-experts - poppycock dressed up as 'science'." After describing her newly published research paper in a Fox News interview with Tucker Carlson in mid- September 2020, Yan said she believed the Chinese government intentionally released the virus. Instagram and Facebook flagged posts of the interview on Tucker Carlson Tonight as false information about COVID-19, saying that they repeated information “that multiple independent fact checkers say is false.” PolitiFact said her statement on Carlson's show, that SARS-CoV-2 was created in a lab, was "inaccurate and ridiculous" and gave their strongest rating of "Pants on Fire".
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General W B Hickie In the next two years and four months during which Hickie commanded the 16th (Irish) Division, it earned a reputation for aggression and élan and won many memorials and mentions for bravery in the engagements during the 1916 Battle of Guillemont and the capture of Ginchy, then during the Battle of Messines, in appalling conditions the Third Battle of Ypres and in attacks near Bullecourt in the Battle of Cambrai offensive in November 1917. During this period the Division made considerable progress in developing its operational techniques but at a price in losses. Hickie through integrating non-Irish soldiers into the division because of the growing shortage of Irish replacement recruits (due to nationalist disenchantment with the war and the absence of conscription in Ireland).Corrigan, G. (2003) Mud Blood & Poppycock, Cassell, In February 1918 Hickie was invalided home on temporary sick leave, but when in hospital the German Spring Offensive began on 21 March, with the result that after his division moved under the command of General Hubert Gough it was practically wiped out and ceased to exist as a division.
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