In "So and So and So and So and So and On and On" (2010), for example, dazzling glazed ceramic and glazed kiln bricks are the pedestals — as thought-provoking as the head-like figures atop them.
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Just whisper in their ear, so-and-so molested me, so-and-so made a comment.
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There were cliques, and people hated each other, and so-and-so wouldn't dream of talking to so-and-so.
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How could we be sure that so-and-so, now dead, said just those words to so-and-so, now also dead?
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"When the media is constantly telling you, 'so-and-so is winning and so-and-so is losing,' it impacts voters," he added.
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" They'd say, "Oh, well, I've done that work, or so-and-so is has done that work, or so-and-so is part of this group.
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A friend involved in a group text chat, when asked if so-and-so had done such-and-such, tried to respond that so-and-so "probably" did.
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So -- and so does my family, by the way.
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It's best to say, "So-and-so has a cocaine/opioid/tobacco use disorder," although she says that "So-and-so has an addiction to cocaine/opioids/tobacco" is also acceptable in everyday conversation.
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This is so-and-so calling for -- he took the call.
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"This is so-and-so calling for…" -- he took the call.
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There's like a "dear so and so," an introduction, a closing.
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"This is so-and-so calling for..." — he took the call.
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I get a kick I hear 'so and so the elite.
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Varble had no intention of doing so, and so he paid.
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There's not more, there's not ... So-and-so is not named?
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In general, though, in trades ... the Hollywood Reporter's a trade, their bread and butter is telling people that so-and-so is signed onto a new project, or so-and-so has a new agent, transactional stuff.
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We'd get a page that we needed to call so and so.
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Artist so-and-so will say, "My song …" David Byrne is delusional!
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We thought so, and so did translators in DeepL's own blind testing.
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Just ask your doctor if he's okay with Dr. So-and-So.
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How much is so-and-so- game like Fire Emblem or XCOM?
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So-and-so million songs and you pay monthly this and that.
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I really don't want to know about so and so from Kazakhstan.
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Today we're going to look into the murder of so-and-so.
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Today we're going to look into the murder of so-and-so.
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And then so-and-so gets to cry and make a share.
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The National Wildlife Federation says so, and so does our city government.
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Liberals don't think so, and so far a majority of Nationals do.
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Did so-and-so have dinner at Jacqueline Kennedy's apartment last night?
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"In the dark ages, everyone said so-and-so is a good retail candidate, or so-and-so is very good at communication, or a good media candidate," said Bill Carrick, a veteran of several Democratic presidential campaigns.
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I have a personal reason for disliking the "free so and so" movement.
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Can you trust what so-and-so said about a restaurant or product?
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And she's starting with whichever heartless so-and-so stole her grandmother's dog.
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" They said, "Oh, well, it shows you asking so and so for comment.
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So-and-So Jeter would be an especially bad name for a girl.
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None of them are deep thought, right, because so and so tweeted this.
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So it's like, 'Why doesn't so-and-so just ride away right now?
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It reminds me of queen so-and-so saying, 'Let them eat cake.
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Male physicians are more frequently introduced with the honorific Doctor so and so.
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And then it's like, a sponsorship with so-and-so laser hair removal.
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So and so offers a searing representation of the scourge of misogyny. Done.
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Well, in this case, that depends on how much you like So-and-So.
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It's a constant thing, it's not just announcing that you support so-and-so.
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But there's a reason that so-and-so still is on a major label.
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Wow, this old so-and-so really left a highly quotable record of himself.
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"Do you accept that disposition Mr. so-and-so," with that kind of contempt.
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"Everybody else was 'Lieutenant So-and-So,' or 'Captain This,'" Ms. Bohrer told NBC.
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No: Dear So and So, I was so sorry to hear about your father.
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Yes: Dear So and So, I was so sorry to hear about your father.
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Did Partisan Review neglect to ask so-and-so to participate in a symposium?
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Is there a, "Oh, I want to replicate what so-and-so is doing"?
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You really can't just say, 'I'm going to write a song for so and so.
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Otherwise, maybe go ask that nice so-and-so out and prove Dr. Twenge wrong.
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The rumor is we are about to nominate so and so, but it doesn't happen.
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"People are like 'You should forgive so-and-so,'" one girl says in the video.
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He was the first state judge to do so, and so far the only one.
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We think that he should talk to so-and-so, who's a great Christian counselor.
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I met so-and-so, so-and-so liked my music, then this person wanted to shoot my video, then this DJ played my music, I did a show, I did two, then I saw I was called to play in London… alibaba aluriê: Poof!
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There was nothing major, though, just stuff like, 'Have you ever kissed so-and-so?' etc.
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"They probably think I'm a no-good so-and-so," he told The New York Times.
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Will the spendthrift convince the virtuous Dona So-and-So that he has mended his ways?
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I mean, I was so ... And, so were the people taking off my mic and stuff.
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"He's used to hiring accountants and lawyers and saying, 'fix so-and-so,'" the source said.
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Was so-and-so not invited by the Lowells to meet the latest visiting Russian poet?
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You know: 'so-and-so has been around for x number of years — it's his turn.
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Gam-gam said that So-and-So had finally found a job in D.C. She asked his mother to relay a message from So-and-So about their time in high school when they worked at Chick-fil-A and that fun summer selling Aflac insurance.
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So-and-so thinks he's covering up that paunch with baggy suits, but we all know better.
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I saw what so-and-so did and posted and is getting backlash for, I saw it.
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I was never like, 'I can't wait to be on a red carpet wearing so-and-so.
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So many people said to me that I'm a so-and-so, but I don't hear them.
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You're probably talking about Masterclass, learn acting from so and so, learn dribbling from Stephen Curry. Right.
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The New York Post thought so, and so did The Daily News and three local TV stations.
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They maybe saw so and so committed a crime, so now you've got to watch these guys.
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The cute girl in the room that's taking notes while I'm being interviewed by so-and-so.
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They had these young college kids coming in as A&R, trying to tell me, 'You should get so-and-so to produce this track, or you should get so-and-so to spit 214 [bars, a common length for a hip-hop or rap verse] on this.
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This brings us back to that first question: What should I get So-and-So as a gift?
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And so... And so really what this is, is just like a long building kind of like crisis.
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"I used to have people coming to me to talk about who shot so and so," she said.
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She would jokingly also make little comments about how we should scrimmage the so-and-so boys team.
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You can say, so-and-so peddles conspiracies, show that they have, and they'll be okay with that.
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This is where the vying for beauty campaigns, and whether so-and-so can sell beauty products, starts.
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But note that the key here is to actually get Representative So-And-So to pass the vote.
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"People can say, 'Netanyahu will win anyway, so maybe I'll vote for so-and-so,' " Mr. Rahat said.
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HARVEY SCRIMSHAW, 'THE WITCH' You're not supposed to tell anybody that so-and-so died in a movie.
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People hang out on corners talking about how last night was or what so and so is up to.
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Those voices of Oh, you probably DID offend so-and-so last night (standard hangover anxiety) start to fade.
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"I thought, nobody comes up and says I'm so-and-so after eight years — I'm Timmothy Pitzen," she says.
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And actually, why do we care that so-and-so, like Peter Thiel, is obsessed with the blood thing.
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Now, I've started to think: If so-and-so gave up her latte once a week, she could donate.
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"They'd say, 'So-and-so has a big farm and they may not even use the library,'" he recalled.
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"Oh, that's so-and-so from Detroit," my mother might say, as if that could clarify matters for me.
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"They would come in and say, 'This is so-and-so and she's matched with you,'" Ms. Gill said.
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Last night, I tweeted something about getting used to protests when you have a president like so-and-so.
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Especially early on, some people tend to flirt around and say, 'Yeah, I could vote for so-and-so.
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Who was hooking up with whom, cheating on so-and-so, doing this-and-that, being a such-and-such?
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I'm the only one in the group to have done so, and so no one else is massively disappointed yet.
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If I said to you I could put you in a movie with so-and-so, who would it be?
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In some cases, making a bequest requires more consideration than simply writing "so-and-so gets X" into your will.
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Someone I barely know says, "Hey, so-and-so told me…I just want you to know…" Thoughts and prayers.
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"Yeah, so-and-so lived here about a year ago, but I don't know where she's at now," someone says.
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In contrast, I don't think "well, you let so-and-so do it" is, by itself, the most compelling argument.
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He played with so and so, this is what they did, this is what kind of activities they engaged in.
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The government isn't bound to do so, and so far it hasn't, but it'd also be tough to defy popular will.
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"They sent a lot of photos — oh, I kicked so and so in the shin, look at my toe," she said.
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So-and-So used to play football, defense—that field, green year-round, was the most expensive part of their school.
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"I would often hear from my extended family, 'So-and-So couldn't finish her studies and was married off,' " she said.
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Elvis gave us The Beatles, who gave us David Bowie, who gave us Nirvana, and so and so on, into infinity.
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Then is spend the next week training harder and harder just to beat so-and-so to get lots of approval.
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Like in my author's note, I was trying to explain that this is nonfiction but it's not journalism, which means there are details in the book, I did not reach out to everyone to say so-and-so declined to comment, or so-and-so declined that this happened, the way you would in a newspaper story.
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There is no map other than the one you find yourself constantly revising: "So the overpass leads to the train station leads to the apartment block, and so, and so, and so…" You are never exactly quite sure where you stand with any of the city's inhabitants, and in response, you constantly move at a brisk pace.
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If you're not old enough to remember watching these movies, yeah, I know, that's what so and so used to look like.
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The minute you say, "Well, I can't because so-and-so," you diminish yourself and you diminish your ability to have impact.
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So-and-so used the N-word, and we don't use the N-word, and we're not gonna use the N-word.
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I'm my kids' legal guardian for the next 18 years or so, and so I get to make most of their life decisions.
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And someone will go online to tell that story, and they'll say, 'I met so-and-so at the coffeehouse; it was cool.
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Had I not moved back to the country I never would have 30 Minute Meals and so on and so and so on.
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So and so fired the whole crew of us, and we hitchhiked home, and I want another chance to come to work tomorrow.
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There's the ecosystem where, after a good segment, the next day, everyone on the internet talks about how you eviscerated so and so.
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When they wrote about the men's boats they said, 'So and so made smart tactical decision here to get rid of this person.
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Saying, "Hello, my name is so-and-so, and my pronouns are…" sets the stage and creates an atmosphere of inclusivity and acceptance.
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"Normally, when this guy is starting a project he'll put up a sign that says 'Future Home of So-and-So,' " Jones said.
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" A teacher might say, for instance, "I wonder what so-and-so is thinking," or, "Your face is telling me that you're upset.
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You can say, "I'm never gonna do that again" or "I'm never going to see so-and-so again," but you'll be wrong.
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"One of my big difficulties in dealing with 90 is when I start to think about, Where is so and so?" he said.
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So-and-so got a pie in their face, and then Nick got a pie in his face, and what am I doing?
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"This will often be in the form of photographs, letters, or a birthday card saying, 'To Uncle so-and-so...' or whatever," says Pam.
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Or Google, they're a horrible monopoly and yet wow, they were fast on giving me that answer if so-and-so is alive anymore.
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"Did you hear about so-and-so journalist who got blacklisted?" became a common story I heard from several reporters on the Trump beat.
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"At the end of every season, we say if so-and-so is the Bachelor, we might not do this again," Mr. Hoover says.
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"If anybody says so-and-so cannot become president of the United States, take a gun and shoot them in the foot," Hanks quipped.
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I know it sounds disingenuous to insist you had no idea that so-and-so liked you but with Colm*, I really didn't know.
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Much of that went to the usual Beltway power brokers who focus on tired attack ads or the vote for so-and-so emails.
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She hates the hype and the parties and the pressure, the murmurings about how so-and-so made an appearance at such-and-such.
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The way that a lot of people think in the music industry is 'this worked for so and so, let's do it that way.
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And so, I don&apost think it&aposs always as black and white when we say so and so did this hacking or didn&apost?
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"There is nothing in there that you will get and think 'oh, I am going to give this away to so and so,' " says Zoe.
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I don't even know until afterwards when someone will say, "You know so and so was at the show," I'm just talking to my pals.
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" Kardashian cited a particular incident as the ultimate no-no, explaining that a man commented to her, "I saw that you dated so-and-so.
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A lot of people who are criticizing where would the agreement so, and so, that we&aposve -- there is no agreement, it&aposs a communique.
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Way cooler than listening to a bunch of random strangers complain that so-and-so just cost them three points in their fantasy football league.
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I mean, sure, we may adore the shit out of So-And-So™, but you know what watching a human person act human does?
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In fact, over the last 24 months, the narrative has been much the same: So-and-so team has raised more money than ever before.
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And so -- and so there's no chunking of people off the list because we see a pattern as to what the final product looks like.
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" Group station managers are the people whose smiling faces adorn the posters in every station that say, "I'm so-and-so Your Group Station Manager.
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"I was in New York when the outing thing was going on—'So and so is gay,' with enormous posters of famous people," he says.
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It wasn't directed like 'You need to be more like this,' but 'So-and-so is having trouble picking out an outfit, let's go there.
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One good way of sussing that out is, I'm trying to remember, was it an Apple ad or Samsung ad, but I saw it last fall and he was showing off the new phone and they were highlighting positive remarks from agist people, so-and-so from The Verge, so-and-so from the Wall Street Journal, and there was a quote from Marques Brownlee. Yeah.
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It's a readable digest of how people are choosing to present themselves to the public, which is fascinating for a nosy so-and-so like me.
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But people will pick out individual jokes and be like, 'Can you believe they ripped on so-and-so?' or 'They did this on this person?
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Urban legends about famous folks tend to follow a few different scripts: deaths, or so-and-so died, and their body was replaced with a double.
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"Saweetie so monotone / Saweetie look like so and so," she raps on "Pissed," which she released with a Game of Thrones-inspired music video last December.
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" A former national-security official told me, "Someone can say, 'I think so-and-so was on the phone, talking to Al Qaeda,' and that's enough.
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" Slate made a Handmaid's Tale reference to bring the point home: "I'm also just really not open to being known as the woman dating so-and-so.
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All you have to do is push a button on your phone and say, 'So and so did this to me, R. Kelly did this to me.
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"It took a couple of months or so, and so we continue to play his music as we celebrate him," she says of moving past her grief.
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Workplace drama will require some... adjustment Everyone cares that so-and-so forgot your supervisor's birthday, but you're just over here missing your convos with the mailman.
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"I'm not going to be in forefront with Flake advocating that the leader do so and so, but I wouldn't do anything to stop it," he said.
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"Acting is a business where you can start to live off of what is so-and-so doing and why am I not doing that," Broderick said.
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David Brooks Every election cycle we say that so and so is fighting for the soul of the Democratic Party, or the soul of the Republican Party.
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"I caution clients against basing their salary negotiation requests on, 'So-and-so is earning X dollars, so I should, too,'" said Devon Smiley, a negotiation consultant.
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So I'll read in the press, 'Oh, we're investing a billion in so and so company,' and I log in and no one has ever met the company.
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Nathan so and so, where they manipulate the media and they get NBC news to run video of a fake video they made of a doctor or something.
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If something's going wrong you just turn to your right and say, hey so-and-so you built this system, we need to change it by this afternoon.
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People have tried to undermine our democracy and our values and have tried to use any platform available to do so, and so we take this incredibly seriously.
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"It's a close enough resemblance so that someone can go, 'Hey, that kind of looks like so-and-so,'" said John Volk, the school's director of continuing education.
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While some of the apps only require a signature, some ask people to say, "I consent to having sex with so-and-so," on video, Dr. Brison says.
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They can say "ah, this falls under statute so and so" rather than arguing about jurisdiction or law and wasting everyone's time — an incredibly common (and costly) occurrence.
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"A lot of times, I'll have people come in and say, 'I was in so-and-so country, and I think I have a sinus infection,'" she said.
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The message he said is often conveyed — "come and hear an immortal masterpiece performed by Maestro So-and-So and a great symphony orchestra" — is actually off-putting.
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You know, so and so might go, well, you know, it's a trap beat, it's got a bunch of 808s … But half of country has 808s now. Right.
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And second, that Aunt So-and-So "deserves to have you know and remember" that she gave so many thousands, even if Aunt Somebody Else gave considerably less.
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I noticed this when I was reporting — if you like more than a few pages, the "SO-AND-SO IS LIVE" notifications are kind of over the top.
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I would write a sentence that said, 'The man on the corner did so-and-so,' and I would be like, 'Why is it a man on the corner?
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Cyril — for whom Woodcock's term of endearment is "my old so-and-so" — is the only person who can tell him what to do, and even then only sometimes.
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You can't just call up 1-800-Syria and ask them do you know so and so, and do you know who they are and why they are coming?
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You are forgotten, and as you limp through your old stadium's hallways for a reunion of the so-and-so division championship squad, you realize that nobody recognizes you.
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The next time you hear people say they'll flee U.S. soil if so-and-so wins the presidential election, ask if they're familiar with the financial life of an expat.
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It seems so insignificant to go, 'Darn it, I didn't get that movie role,' or, 'Darn it, so-and-so is wearing the same dress as me to the Emmys.
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And when I see so-and-so said this fight was a mismatch, why I'm going to have a little ceremony and some eating is going on—eating of words.
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"American women are far too interested in how they're treated, and are too quick to say, 'So and so shouldn't have done or said that to her,'" Ms. DeVoueroix said.
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The second, imposed not by church or state, but self-imposed by pre- and post-pubescent girls: Don't get caught in the school corridor alone with Father so and so.
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In the case of a real diagnosis, you shouldn't say "So-and-so is an addict" or that a person is abusing drugs or has a drug problem, Mooney says.
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Growing up in St. Louis, she had known women who were called "Miz" So-and-So — a respectful generic used traditionally there, as it also was in the American South.
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"I'll get a call to watch out for this guy, or so and so took money off the bar — word gets around quick to the other bars," Mr. Gargan said.
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But I think about stuff that has happened to me in various jobs that I've had and why I didn't come forward — so-and-so grabs my ass, which happened.
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Murmurs of who was saved and where were collected on improvised lists: someone knew so-and-so was dug out, but no one knows which hospital they were sent to.
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If, for instance, someone made "a fake AI that says, 'I'm so-and-so and I support gun control'" and it damaged your reputation, your estate might have a defamation case.
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You can see it right there, and apparently 80% of New Yorkers are arrested for cannabis are black or Latino while people who look like so and so get a pass.
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You could say, "Some of them didn't understand it, and so-and-so wasn't there, and he wasn't governor yet," but they understood that this would be part of the process.
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So, when she's traveling, she'll update her dating apps to say that she's going to see so-and-so play and has an extra ticket, if anyone wants to claim it.
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I was just like, 'Oh, this is for Mr. So-and-So,' and I'd save them and go, 'Oh, this came to you from Mr. Blue and Mr. Green and whatever!
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I hate the steady stream of rumors that "so-and-so doesn't make his/her own tracks," doubly so because, with virtually any DJ/producer you can name, they're basically plausible.
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It's not that I don't take these people at their word, but I'm a strong proponent that people save themselves; so-and-so just happens to be playing in the background.
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I took that little book up under my arm and politely walked my black so-and-so out the library and they have not seen it from that day to this.
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It's much better to run Russia and Saudi Arabia at $250 than at $270, so-, and so, I think they have a fundamental, same alignment, because they need a better price.
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I think Sputnik is one of the, it is way less successful than RT, for example, because RT creates agenda which can get some consumers you know in Europe, and even in America, even though they're lying directly to the, you know, the audience and they are making fake, and they are inviting fake experts and so and so and so, and it works, because you're trust—because there is this tradition of trust to what television says. Yep.
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She denigrates those who displease her on cosmetic grounds: So-and-so used to be a 9 but, with that male-pattern baldness and desperate comb-over, is down to a 6.
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All photos: Adam Clark EstesWhen you're a gadget blogger, your friends typically have a classic, back-pocket question around the holiday season: What should I get So-and-So as a gift?
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When you get push alerts on your phone, like Twitter telling you "so-and-so liked this tweet," those notifications don't go out to 10 million people or 5 million people simultaneously.
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The founding fathers thought so — and so they met in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 and drafted a new Constitution that would set up a new framework for a stronger government.
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She wants it to be a place where conversations can get weird: "Do you know so-and-so has a sixth toe?" is her example of a weird turn in a conversation.
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And maybe you have to swallow a little bit and say, 'OK, I personally like so-and-so better,' but your bottom line has to be that we have to beat Trump.
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This black Sharpie is for all the things you'd typically pick up your cell phone to deal with: write a to-do list, ask so-and-so about this, schedule that, etc.
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The teacher explains that there's a rash of so-and-so-is-my-best-friend, and G. doesn't have her one person, but, the teacher says, not all kids need that, right?
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I would say that's not necessarily a Gawker low, but at that age it was ... I was going to say, "Ah, you got sued by so-and-so or …" No. N, lawsuits.
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A good comeback when they tell you that they don't like so-and-so because oh, gosh do you see how she dresses/acts/looks: give the person she just panned a compliment.
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You know, over the years you hear people say, 'So and so had cancer,' and you feel bad for them but you just don't know how it feels until it happens to you.
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So I thought, Why I am giving so-and-so vineyard over in Italy that I've never heard of so much publicity by sharing these photos when I could have my own wine?
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There are often times when you're casually enjoying a meal at a restaurant until you realize you're sitting with the "You haven't had real pizza until you've been to so-and-so" guy.
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" And by the way, so-and-so down the street from him says, "I can get them without even going to a website, I can just do it programmatically, through Google, Facebook, etc.
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"Readers are smart, and if you try to give them the same story dressed up a bit, they'll say, 'Oh I used to like her, now try so-and-so,'" Higgins-Clark said.
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"We don't want to announce that so-and-so is backing us, especially, like, county chairs and elected types, and find out, that was just hearsay, and it's not really true," he said.
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I've had a few Democratic lawmakers tell me: You know, Senator so-and-so, he's not a bad guy, and he understands that we need an infrastructure program, or a climate change plan.
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Winkler: Skaters would tell us all the time, we saw so and so at the rink, this person grew up with us, Dre was a DJ at the rink when he was young.
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And maybe you have to swallow a little bit and say 'OK I could personally like so-and-so better' but your bottom line has to be that we have to beat Trump.
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"I woke him up in the middle of the night and was like, 'Are you f—ing so-and-so?' and he was like, 'You're crazy,&apos" Faris recalled, not naming the ex.
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"Basically, you would just find out one day that so-and-so was promoted to district manager because he had finished going through a training program you didn't even know was available," Medin said.
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Every day I start by tackling the A's, like 'close a deal with so-and-so,' even though I might be more in the mood for a C, like 'plant flowers in my garden.
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" That, he said, is different from a news program on which "you've got your notes of what so-and-so said: 'Governor, you said this three weeks ago and now you're changing the story.
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"In the unlikely situation we were to be subpoenaed and asked, 'Did you talk to so and so?' we would say, 'I think so, but I actually didn't catch their last name,'" Wu says.
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" She recently saw a boy whose mother kept bringing up, "'You don't want to be like uncle so and so, he had to have this operation, he almost died' — the kid is now terrified.
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"I can tell them, 'So-and-so is the board chairman and he renovated his apartment when he moved in, so don't be shy about saying you intend to renovate yours,' " Ms. Greenberg said.
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"Wow, what would have happened if I married so and so, or took that job in San Diego..." But you rarely think that each and every second that goes by is one of those moments.
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The writer tells Granthika that so-and-so is a "character," that such-and-such is an "event," that this event happened at this time or at this location with this character, and so on.
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You can go to the leadership tab, and you can see that so-and-so is the acting assistant secretary or acting undersecretary — and you know what that acting assistant secretary or acting undersecretary does.
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"I can't mount a film of this budget, where I have to rely on tax rebates in Spain, and say that my lead actor is Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such," he said.
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" On his concerns with vetting Syrian refugees: "You can't just call up 1-800-Syria and ask them, do you know so and so and do you know who they are and why they're coming?
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You're relegated to a table in a drafty corner, and while so-and-so is chatting with their friend or their significant other, you're on your phone scrolling through spam emails trying to look busy.
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"If the authorities do not find any other loophole, they get the city development authority to say that so-and-so factory did not get its building plan passed, so let's shut it," he said.
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When finding a spot at the dinner table, don&apost sit next to Cousin So-and-so or Aunt M and definitely don&apost sit in full view of your lip-smacking father-in-law.
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"In my life and career I have often heard it said that so-and-so has real power -- as in, 'the powerful Wile E. Coyote, chairman of the Capture the Road Runner Committee,' " Dingell wrote.
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If an administration spokesperson declares that up is down, will news reports simply say "so-and-so says up is down, but Democrats disagree," or will they also report that up is not, in fact, down?
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Rather, responses like "I'm the daughter of so and so" or "My family comes from here by way of there" serves the greater purpose of attesting to one's place in history and potential bonds of kinship.
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"&aposBy the way, Private First Class so-and-so is the greatest Marine in the entire division,&apos" the email read, Mattis told an audience at a Tri-City Regional Chamber of Commerce luncheon last week.
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If Mueller had concluded that Trump committed a crime, Republicans would have been in a somewhat more awkward spot on this — but he refused to do so, and so the GOP has a rationale to do nothing.
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I compulsively seek reassurance from one or two people who have to remind me that, no—just because so-and-so hasn't responded to a text message, it doesn't mean that they have died some awful death.
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I was washing dishes and whatnot, and I told one of the guys 'Hey, tell so-and-so if I see him, I'm going to whoop his ass,' because [the third guy] wasn't there at the time.
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"Consumers — Gen Zs, especially — are sick of being told by these huge companies that they need to look a certain way, that they need to buy so-and-so products to fix their flaws," Ms. Collins said.
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Nothing makes me feel as high and mighty as being on the receiving end of a juicy secret: So-and-so got fired, this couple eloped, that friend is having a surprise party thrown in their honor.
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As with most families, there have been fallings out, about the kinds of things families fall out over: who got more money, who got more affection, who slighted so-and-so at such-and-such a time.
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If Republicans succeed in simply killing the bill passively by using their control over the House agenda to ensure that it doesn't come to the floor for a vote, then there's no clean hit on So-And-So.
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"People are sending in photos of their cats, if they have photos, or they're simply saying 'I think so-and-so looks a lot like my cat' and giving us characteristics that we've been trying to match," said Wood.
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But when DeNiro drops the F-bomb or Samantha Bee uses the C-word or Trump is called everything from a thug to mentally ill, the reaction is many quarters is hey, didja see what so-and-so said?
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When we're in a world that combats our greatness, we have to know where to pull from to say, 'I know that so-and-so did that under those circumstances, what would stop me from doing this under mine?
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"But now if you break into someone's email," Mr. Segal noted, "you can find a message that 'so-and-so is an idiot,' or their porn history" — private, personal information that could be tremendously embarrassing or discrediting if released.
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I've heard no stories of them going on dates with celebs, but they're all like, "Oh, so and so off that show was on there... but they didn't message me back," and I wanted in on that, I guess.
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"Today Elliott Abrams spoke to the New York Times to give Venezuela rules of conduct, to say that there have to be new presidential elections and that if there are elections, that so-and-so can't participate," Maduro said.
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But they come to you and they go, "Look, I've got $40 million in funding, I've got a Stanford whatever degree, so and so is backing me, I know what I'm doing, we're launching —" Right, go find another agency.
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I remember being like, "oh it would be so cool to work for so-and-so" but then once you do it, you kind of forget what the feeling of that [was] like because it becomes part of your life.
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If the intelligence community came out and said, we have determined that so and so is the leaker here, but you are saying to me now, that you don't believe the intelligence community when they say your tweet was wrong.
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But it's, it used to be that so and so had said this or so; every single thing is an anonymous source, so the condition of this and that, you never hear ever, you don't see sources anymore because it's fake.
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I'll talk about the last "wonderful" book I read, since I've gotten allergic to the word "great" lately — everyone's best friend on Twitter is "the great so-and-so" who has just written a "great" book or article, blah blah.
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But a slightly toned-down ad arguing that Representative So-and-So even voted to let suspected terrorists buy military-style assault weapons like the one used to slaughter dozens in Orlando would pass muster under any normal journalistic standard.
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DIMON: HE OBVIOUSLY DOESN'T AGREE WITH SO. AND SO – BUT I WOULD ALSO TELL THE PRESIDENT THAT HIS – TWO OF HIS ADVISERS TOLD HIM, AND I'M NOT GOING TO NAME THEM, BUT THEY TOLD HIM THERE WOULD BE NO RETALIATION.
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And as the election gave way to waves of hatred and intolerance amidst the realities of a Trump-led government, caring about whether so-and-so ate a burger or who posed with whom on the red carpet seemed less and less urgent.
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Someone inspecting a 3D model for printability before popping it into the five-axis might say to the designer, you know, these pieces could fit together more closely if we did so-and-so, and it would actually add strength to the assembly.
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And so – and so far maybe it hasn't but this is a throw down to Chairman Clayton as to whether or not he is going to represent the interest of the agency and the settlement or if he is going to take it.
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"Once we have a patient that works well, I will go back to the nurses and say, 'Hey, it was really great that so-and-so came in and we got them in treatment, and they are still in treatment,'" Moulin said.
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"The techs would come in: 'So-and-so is getting me on my nerves watching TV and won't quit talking; come over here and give her a PRN'" — a shot that could contain a sedative such as Ativan or an antipsychotic like Haldol.
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"If so-and-so wins the election, I'm moving to Canada" was a common refrain throughout the election, but as results began pouring in Tuesday pointing to a Trump win, some Americans seemed to be making a more serious assessment of their options.
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"If so-and-so wins the election, I'm moving to Canada" was a common refrain throughout the election, but as results began pouring in Tuesday pointing to a Trump win, some Americans seemed to be making a more serious assessment of their options.
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These jobs aren't, y'know, so-and-so is a plumber, and ol' spiky hair over there's a decent sparky—it's all white mage this and foebreaker that, and the machinist role has nothing to do at all with a painfully skinny Christian Bale.
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"This is different from a lot of elections in the past where you could say, 'If so-and-so wins, this will be good for that industry and bad for that one,'" said Scott Bok, chief executive of investment bank Greenhill & Co Inc.
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Oftentimes people knew who had run up and killed the teenage boy on the corner, or had heard whispers about the shooter's identity, but still for people my age (under 30) would immediately invoke "FREE so and so" on T-shirts and in Myspace posts.
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My dislike for the "free so-and-so" movement was not a wish to have the accused's civil liberties or presumption of innocence taken away, but for all of us in the know to show some integrity and respect toward the survivors of violence.
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Maybe so, and so maybe it is easy to see why some former patients are inclined to strong language, to anger, to proving that something bad happened to them, something beyond a bummer time for a shitty teen, something that should not happen to anyone.
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"She didn't grow up here, she didn't have 14 cousins who ran different precincts for her, she didn't have a mom and dad who went to high school with so and so," said Jesse Mermell, a close friend, describing advantages of some native Boston politicians.
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"The act known as impeachment was an act that took place in the upper house when people from the lower house appeared at the bar of that other house and said, 'We hereby impeach so-and-so for high crimes and misdemeanors,'" Professor Feldman said.
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Deleting the app from my phone largely deleted it from my consciousness, but Zuckerberg still came after me with email notifications that so-and-so is saying such-and-such, and if I don't go to the book of faces I will miss it!
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"Energy has had a mini-surge over the past month or so, and so I think this inventory build is being viewed as an opportunity to take some profits," said Mike Baele, managing director at U.S. Bank Private Client Wealth Management in Portland, Oregon.
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"There's a little bit of people talking before the show starts and so you know, going in … they don't show everything, but someone will come up to the bar and be like, 'You know, I met so and so and they seemed really nice,' " he said.
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Even though Facebook posts about how God had blessed so-and-so with the #mostamazingwifeever #blessed #createdforme made me vomit in my mouth a little, I also secretly wanted these small badges that meant I had arrived at the vaunted status of "coupled" in the evangelical culture.
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Instead, we see Swift as basically friendless, leaning only on her mother, her cats, her invisible boyfriend and a throwback dinner with the "redhead named Abigail," her high school bestie, where they do the (highly relatable) "did you hear so-and-so had a baby" bit.
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But in 2013, it contrasted sharply with both the popular BioWare model and especially with Telltale's The Walking Dead (released a year prior to great acclaim), which signposted "important" choices directly with the now commonly parodied so-and-so will remember that text appearing directly on screen.
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"He is sometimes like the leader who says 'I don't care what the generals say, I will tell Lieutenant so-and-so to take that hill'," said a source, adding that the pope enjoyed rattling an inefficient bureaucracy with what the source described as "joyful destruction".
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"Every now and again I get a call or you get an email that says, 'Well, so and so trash mag will be running a story that you — and this week it was — are icy to Sofia Vergara because you're jealous of her fame,' " Bowen told host Ellen DeGeneres.
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"A large number of times people say, 'Wow, so-and-so has the best aptitude and leadership skills, but hasn't had some of the critical experiences'— primarily meaning the not large P&L [profit and loss] roles — 'and so it's just too risky to make that appointment,'" she explained.
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"If they have any sign of mental illness, dementia or Alzheimer's, they could say, 'I was raped by so and so' but nobody believes them," said Pat McGinnis, executive director of California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, a non-profit advocacy organization dedicated to improving long-term health care.
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I tweeted something, she responded, I felt like woah, and then I knew this was going to happen, but another outsider, an academic or someone says, 'Oh look it's Tanzina and so and so, like ding ding ding, round one,' and I was like no no no, we're not doing that.
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I always felt that when those tabloid stories came out, if you answered their questions or picked up the phone, and they said this is so-and-so from Star magazine, and they're ready to run a story about what a rotten father you are, I never wanted to take that interview.
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But what was interesting was that the essays we would get, whether it was a forum issue or not — because they weren't in every issue — those were much more disparate, like so-and-so wanted to do something, or had an essay, or I had an essay, but they were not coordinated.
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And so it begins to look like more the traditional way of paying for it through the carrier by, you know, taking the rates out for 24 months or so and so you wind up getting an incredibly new phone that's so much better than what you've had for $20, $30 a month or so.
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If you live long enough in one place, you will read about this all the time — a restaurant closing, the last holdout, a reminder of the way the neighborhood was or when the city was vibrant, or when so-and-so was still alive, an era that's ended, even if it was a nasty time.
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Warren's job would be to explain why Sherrod Brown or Bernie Sanders was wrong to be raising the alarm bells about this or that, that such-and-such bill was really the absolute best bill the administration could get, and that so-and-so the new appointee is really much more progressive than people realize.
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"Every now and again I get a call or you get an email that says, 'Well, so and so trash mag will be running a story that you — and this week it was — are icy to Sofia Vergara because you're jealous of her fame,' " Bowen, 48, told host Ellen DeGeneres on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
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"Just when you think you've made it with your mack-daddy $10 million apartment, your wife comes home and says, 'So and so just bought a $35 million apartment,' and you feel like a loser," one man says in the piece, tempting the reader to send him a bouquet of mood-lifting purple balloons.
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That you'd want to spend as much time as you could in this constructed dreamscape, where an exceedingly attractive young woman is not only bringing your deeply hidden sexual proclivities to life, but also hearing you gripe about the world and nodding along with every declaration about how so-and-so doesn't "get" you.
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And it's just as dangerous for somebody online to go dig up one piece of information and then say, "So-and-so is the one who did it," as it is for a member of law enforcement to do the same thing and to have tunnel vision and decide immediately [who the criminal is].
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How much of this is, "We've always had these stories, we've always heard rumors, we've always been close to reporting a story about so-and-so but we couldn't get it done, let's go chase it down," versus stuff coming in over the transom and people wanting to tell you stories about people that maybe you weren't thinking about?
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Another source close to the White House called Manigault Newman a "uniquely untrustworthy figure" and said he didn't believe the "conspiracy theories" about other recordings, but the source acknowledged that the rumors among Trump allies were "paranoia combined with 'I don't like so-and-so, so maybe they were also recording' attempts at throwing enemies under the bus."
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" When I tell them that it's also a business protocol that has allowed sexual predators to continue on in their careers, while silencing victims, Martin's head of talent resources Tina Chamberlain chimes in: "I would say that in this environment, we've learned that we cannot just say 'so and so is leaving now to pursue other opportunities.
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The Tattle is what happens when some drama goes down in the mansion, and one or multiple men feel the need to go running to the Bachelorette to let her know that so-and-so is not here for the right reasons, or that what's-his-name has been acting super sketchy when she's not around.
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So we're back to the pre-Watergate-era mechanism in which you are relying on either the attorney general, who wants to preserve his own independent reputation and says, "Okay, I'm going to step aside and let so-and-so run this," or on Congress to say, "We're going to stand up and we're going to investigate this."
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"Your candidate might be better on healthcare than Joe is, but you have to look at who is going to win this election, and maybe you have to swallow a little bit and say 'I personally like so-and-so better,' but your bottom line has to be that we have to beat Trump," she said.
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If nobody can explain to you how and why the machine erroneously decoded your thought as X and X turns out to be very bad ("I intend to murder so-and-so"), then the lack of transparency means you will have a hard time demanding redress for the harm that befalls you as a result of this misread thought.
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When we share what our neighbor heard when she ran into so-and-so, or something a friend of a friend said about the university closing, or the latest confirmed Covid-19 case according to a screencap someone sent in a text thread, we're offering those in freefall—ourselves included—a ledge on which to stand.
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"Some will argue this has nothing to do with race, but when the same officials targeting these girls have been heard saying that so-and-so white girl also shows too much skin but has never been disqualified for a similar violation the racial facet of this issue cannot be ignored," Langford wrote in a blog post Monday.
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So yes, you know, your candidate might be better on, I don't know, health care than Joe is, but you've got to look at who's going to win this election, and maybe you have to swallow a little bit and say, 'Okay, I personally like so-and-so better,' but your bottom line has to be that we have to beat Trump.
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On the contrary: You must read everything, and you must let it all the way into your life, all the way into the part of you that makes writing, and you must let every good thing in — none of this reading a few lines of so-and-so with the hope that you might write something that sounds like it.
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Ridley Scott's Exodus: Gods and Kings gets special flak, including a clip of the director explaining to Variety why he casts white men in Middle Eastern biblical roles: I can't mount a film of this budget, where I have to rely on tax rebates in Spain, and say that my lead actor is Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such.
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Katja Blichfeld, a creator of ''High Maintenance,'' HBO's gently transgressive episodic comedy about an unnamed weed dealer and the New Yorkers who make up his clientele, told me that this season, she and her co-writer Isaac Oliver initially wrote a scene with stage instructions that read, ''so-and-so eats so-and-so's ass on the terrace,'' she recalled, laughing.
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" These closing lines reminded me of Rieff's introduction to his mother's diaries, which he opens by saying, "I have always thought that one of the stupidest things the living say about the dead is the phrase, 'so-and-so would have wanted it this way,'" and yet, Rieff still closes the introduction by hoping: "perhaps Susan Sontag the writer would have approved of what I've done.
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The internet finds imbecilic activities to do, then challenges other people to do it with them, then watches videos of other people doing the challenge and chortles at clip after clip of so-and-so shoving a spoonful of cinnamon down their throat, or stuffing seven saltines into their gullet without any water, or sprinkling salt on their wrist and rubbing ice on it.
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"Whereas most writers would say to their editor, 'I'd like to see So-and-So next Thursday and review the show,' Steve was already seeing everybody, so it was just a matter of highlighting the shows he'd been to that were most worth mentioning," David Mandl, who gave him that column in 2008 when Mr. Mandl was The Rail's music editor, said by email.
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When did you start hearing this movie we made a couple years ago that no one went to see, it turns out that so-and-so likes it and ... We started hearing that right away, but that didn't really turn into numbers until it became apparent that a lot of music people had it on their buses and felt referenced by it and warmed to it.
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I think that is like ... We used to have this thing in the video game business where you would play like a premium video game, and the beginning of every video game would be the same, it would be like the beginning of a movie, a "so-and-so studios' production, by this studio, by that studio," and five minutes later the game would cue up and you'd start to play.
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"So yes, you know, your candidate might be better on, I don't know, health care, than Joe is, but you've got to look at who's going to win this election, and maybe you have to swallow a little bit and say, 'OK, I personally like so-and-so better,' but your bottom line has to be that we have to beat Trump," Jill Biden, Joe Biden's wife, said last week.
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In another world, perhaps she would go off on a champagne-coated tangent about how tragic it is that mankind has forced her to see girls in this way, not for their innate goodness, not for their girlhood, but for the way that their hair looks and the fact that so-and-so didn't put enough lash glue on, and now her falsies are somewhere underneath all of this tulle.
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Florida senator Marco Rubio got it right when he talked about deepfakes at a Heritage Foundation forum last month: "I think the likely outcome would be that [news outlets] run the video, with a quotation at the end saying, by the way, we contacted senator so-and-so and they denied that that was them," he said, talking about a hypothetical scenario where a deepfake video could spread as a news tip to journalists.
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It can also do the same for specific work commitments, creating reminders based on the wording of your emails — so if you often message your boss to say you'll deliver 'such and such a report by so and so a day', yet promptly forget to add this to your calendar, Microsoft's digi-assistant can help by scanning your emails for key phrases and offering to create reminders for stuff you've promised to do.
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All this shock, horror and kneejerk denigration might be understandable if the European Union were notching up important successes and resolving its member states' many problems, or if, at the very least, it had a figurehead with whom European citizens could identify, someone of whom one might say, "However badly things are going, I have faith in so and so, I believe he or she really does have the interests of my nation at heart, really is concerned about unemployment in my town," be it Newcastle or Naples.
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You know, if you had one night to go to dinner, go to lunch with so and so, and people say, you know, Mother Teresa and Jesus and the Dhali Lama and, OK, I get it, but if you think about it a little bit more earthly, worldly type people, you know, people who are interesting, I think of people like William F. Buckley on the right and Gore Vidal on the left, when they had their debates, some of you are old enough to remember that stuff, really clever, insightful people, ideas that blow your mind and that kind of stuff and I can honestly tell you (chokes up), my dinner would be with Tim Duncan, because he is the most real, consistent, true person I have ever met in my life.
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