We joke and refer to the wet blanket — like you're removing the wet blanket that was lying on top of the speakers.
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A "wet blanket" is an idiom that means "party pooper" in some circles, but if you think about it, DEW can be a wet blanket, too.
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Good luck keeping your makeup dry under this wet blanket.
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A wet blanket on a holiday spent pardoning televised turkeys.
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"This certainly puts a wet blanket over media deals," said Paulsen.
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Robin called Orman a "wet blanket on FIRE" on her blog.
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I told you Midge doesn't need a security (wet) blanket like Joel.
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When you're the wet blanket, you'll be left out and passed over.
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I felt like a wet blanket, continually challenging the other doctors' enthusiasm.
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"I generally felt like a wet blanket showing up," Mr. Fertman said.
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How are we ever going to get out from under this wet blanket?
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It's like a wet blanket over the economy that's keeping the economy still struggling.
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Tax policy is truly a wet blanket that has been thrown over the economy.
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At that level, the debt likely will be a wet blanket on the economy.
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He wanted to give her another shot, without the wet blanket that was me.
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Prepare yourselves: it's time to throw the wet blanket of regression on this team.
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The latest report from Morgan Stanley acts like wet blanket to the driverless market.
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Mr. Saccone, 60, was a wet blanket of a candidate, without a scintilla of charisma.
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With the internet now a dominant social force, Tenner is ready with his wet blanket.
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Her family said the grandmother was found shielding the boy and girl with a wet blanket.
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Be a wet blanket by cutting festival days down from four to three and imposing a curfew.
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Forgive the debt, so people can live their lives and not feel they're under a wet blanket.
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Maria (Kelvin Miranda), a withdrawn teen known to classmates as a "dead kid" — a wallflower and wet blanket.
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The Swedes' approach to this match threw a wet blanket over whatever possibility the occasion might have otherwise presented.
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Yes, Abbots, although the year is now 1927, Daisy is still the adorable wet blanket she has always been.
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In the shade of the trees, the air felt like a wet blanket, and mosquitoes homed in on open flesh.
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WHEN the summer heat descends on Tokyo like a warm wet blanket, politicians grab their clubs and head to the fairways.
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"Grandma did everything she could to save them she was hovered over them both with a wet blanket," Amanda Woodley wrote.
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However -- wet blanket time ... sources close to Naomi tell us she and Bradley are just good friends, have been for years.
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It must make estimates, whether it likes a proposal or not, and it cherishes its reputation as a bipartisan "wet blanket".
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Bledsoe's granddaughter, Amanda Woodley, said on Facebook the elderly woman desperately put a wet blanket over the children as their home burned.
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"The U.S. behaviour also threw a wet blanket over our efforts for global disarmament and non-proliferation of nuclear weapons," Ju said.
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The Los Angeles Times reported that Bledsoe's family said she desperately put a wet blanket over the children as their home burned.
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That this risk-averse wet blanket is the moral center of The Craft is only the beginning of the film's many shortcomings.
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"What we saw was a big wet blanket thrown over the market in 13," said Jonathan Miller, CEO of appraisal firm Miller Samuel.
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For five straight weeks, mortgage interest rates have trended higher, and thrown a wet blanket on what had been a booming refinance market.
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Stephanie, who is practically a fire fighter in scrubs, wraps them in a wet blanket and they leap through a wall of fire.
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"At this point a little bit of a wet blanket is thrown over the rally, based on the U.S. economic data," Antonelli said.
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Even with Claudia Gadelha sticking to her like a wet blanket through the first two rounds, Jedrzejczyk landed a decent number of shots.
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"At this point a little bit of a wet blanket is thrown over the rally, based on the U.S. economic data," said Antonelli.
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Mr. English is aware that the website will be viewed by some bar professionals not as a boon, but as a wet blanket.
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My coworkers were having a great time, playing beer pong in a conference room and teasing me for being such a wet blanket.
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Our relationship, which started out with a matched intake of nightlife and excess, quickly fizzled when I turned into a wet-blanket boyfriend.
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But statistics are a wet blanket if ever there was one, and millions of Americans kept their hopes alive, shelling out $2 per ticket.
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Investigators said one of the men grabbed the shark by the tail while the other two people involved wrapped it in a wet blanket.
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ATLANTA — By the time Xander Schauffele hit his final drive on Sunday, the Tour Championship was a wet blanket that had been wrung dry.
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Though some of would argue that the film's protagonist is a total wet blanket, Fairuza Balk's hedonistic Nancy embodies the give-no-fucks rebellion of goth.
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And I think I&aposm afraid this big blue wave that they were depending on is going to be more like a big blue wet blanket, judge.
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The ghost of Spuds Mackenzie, Bud Light's previously retired spokesdog, makes his triumphant return to the screen to convince some guy not to be a wet blanket.
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Hate to throw a wet blanket on your big moment, Chicago, but a World Series championship is the worst thing that could've happened to your beloved Cubs.
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In New York City, for example, entire blocks smell like hot garbage, and the air feels like a wet blanket, with heat indices approaching 110 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Call it solidarity in partisanship — a longing for clear lines that cut across policy issues, rather than a wet blanket of consensus that covers over sociopolitical fractures.
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But I understand the problem, which is also the problem Clinton faces: among young people in particular, being a wet blanket is no way to be hugely popular.
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Sunday night: it's the wet blanket of the weekend -- and if you've ever felt your TGIFs morph into OMGs as Sunday comes to a close, you're not alone.
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"This has been somewhat of a wet blanket, and with details now out I don't think it's that strange that shares are rising," Handelsbanken Capital Markets analyst Hampus Engellau said.
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"The real excitement is in the regulatory phase, getting rid of some of the unnecessary regulation that we have that's really putting a wet blanket on the economy," he said.
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Claudia Rosett, a foreign policy fellow at the Independent Women&aposs Forum, has long warned, don&apost get too excited here, not that she&aposs trying to be a wet blanket.
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"At the moment that my brother was celebrating an impressive victory and my mom and dad were there, my loss was kind of a wet blanket on them," Mr. Bush said.
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"I think we should all be really understanding of that and should try to do the best we can not to be, you know, a wet blanket on idealism," she said.
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Thumbelina is a bit of a wet blanket of a character, and none of the song lyrics can hold a candle to the work Howard Ashman did in The Little Mermaid.
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Among the dead were two firefighters, as well as two young children who perished with their great-grandmother as they huddled under a wet blanket while their house went up in smoke.
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"We will make every effort to improve inter-Korean relations in future, too, but never sit idle with regard to sinister act of throwing a wet blanket over our efforts," Ri said.
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A "Person who's hard to take," someone who argues about everything, or is just a general wet blanket, earned the nickname PILL a long time ago — something unpleasant and hard to swallow.
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"Protectionist policies will act like a wet blanket on global trade and markets continue to react negatively to these types of policies," said Charlie Ripley, senior investment strategist at Allianz Investment Management.
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Global shares crept lower from their highest levels in two months on Friday after the weak data threw a wet blanket on a rally that took them to their best January on record.
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After putting in so much work to show both the ruthless and warm sides of one of America's greatest (in every sense of the word) presidents, it's a wet blanket of an ending.
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"So I don't want it to throw a wet blanket on things, and I don't feel that it will, because half the business is women and they're smart and they're hip," he said.
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Everyone&aposs throwing a wet blanket on it, again we&aposre cautiously optimistic but it&aposs better than the alterative and they said he would do the opposite, the so called expert class.
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"The three Ts, Trump, tariffs and trade, are sort of a wet blanket on the embers of growth, but ... the market can still go higher," said Greg Luken, CEO of Luken Investment Analytics.
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While the game was still in progress, however, noted bloviator Neil deGrasse Tyson decided to weigh in on the Cubs' chances, turning himself into the human equivalent of a wet blanket in the process.
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The doctor would also rather hang out with known wet blanket Jeremy Reed (Ed Weeks) or take a nap on an uncomfortable-looking break room couch, than go home to dinner and wine with Ben.
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We should not let a deal subject to the whims of future administrations or Congresses hang like a wet blanket over our economy -- driving up energy prices, devastating our industrial base and bolstering our rivals.
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Given last week's sex fest, episode 2 felt like a bit of a wet blanket, though it's nice to see that Lord "We Need To Downsize" Grantham isn't above continuing to have his newspapers ironed.
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"If Cisco gets up and says 'We're worried about macro conditions in emerging markets hurting overall demand for technology', that's a big wet blanket on the branded IT companies," said Needham & Company analyst Alex Henderson.
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The Brexit vote, along with renewed growth concerns for the United States and China, are "throwing a wet blanket on optimism," according to Chad Morganlander, portfolio manager at Stifel, Nicolaus & Co in Florham Park, New Jersey.
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In early March, he emailed a New York Times reporter, urging an article on the idea that the Fed had driven commodity prices down with its rate increases, acting as a "wet blanket" on economic growth.
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"I came into this study expecting to be a wet blanket on this idea," said Dr. Jayachandran, who noted that similar experiments in developmental economics have found that conditional cash grants sometimes have only marginal effects.
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Sadly, Balfe's is the only female character with more than a line or two, and she swings, inexplicably, between being Cool Wife Who Loves to See Her Husband Race and Wet Blanket Who Wants Him Home and Alive.
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" Mr. Powell "has done a good job trying to find a balance and equilibrium between trying to allow an economy that is really hot not overheat," Mr. Scott said, "while also not throwing a wet blanket over it.
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"This is a dangerous act of throwing a wet blanket over the current positive atmosphere of inter-Korean relations, which could drive the situation again into an extreme phase of confrontation," Han told the U.N.-sponsored Conference on Disarmament.
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As the world struggles with a glut of grain that has filled inventories to record-highs and cast a wet blanket over the corn and bean markets, the shortage of high-quality spring wheat has taken markets by surprise.
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Reischauer ran the agency during President Bill Clinton's unsuccessful push for health care reform, when his analyses served as a wet blanket for Democratic lawmakers struggling to find a workable compromise that could provide affordable care without blowing up the deficit.
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The frequent coordination problems might have been a fluke, but Mr. Meister also imposed ill-advised tempos including a wet-blanket andante in "Là ci darem la mano" that all but suffocated this tender duet between Don Giovanni and Zerlina.
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The U.S. sanctions are "a manifestation of heinous intention to throw a wet blanket over the inter-Korean exchange and cooperation and to aggravate the situation," an unnamed North Korean foreign ministry spokesman said in a report by the Korean Central News Agency.
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Introducing legal friction by having API providers constantly worried about making that access look unique, and developer friction by forcing developers to weave together APIs that are different only for legal reasons, results in throwing a wet blanket over this creative engine.
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The Carr, one of 17 California wildfires, has claimed the lives of two firefighters and at least four civilians in the Redding area, including two young children and their great-grandmother, who according to family members perished while huddled under a wet blanket.
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If Tristan Thompson can rekindle the twitchy quickness he displayed in the NBA Finals two years ago, playing him beside Nance Jr., with James at the three, will toss a wet blanket on offenses that are used to torching slower big men in space.
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Nearing the end of her rope—and her bank account—Wilder sleeps with her pal Debbie's husband (a schlubby wet blanket played by Mad Men's Rich Sommer) and turns up at an oddball casting call for "unconventional girls" at a run-down athletic complex in the Valley.
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What's happening: The IMF wrote down its global growth expectations for the third time this year, pointing squarely to the U.S.-China trade war that has thrown a wet blanket on cross-border trade and investment, sending manufacturing into a recession in the U.S. and in an increasing number of countries around the globe.
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Staff immediately clued onto this incredibly poorly thought out scheme and confronted them in the parking lot, KSAT 12 wrote:Salvaggio said one of the men grabbed the shark by its tail while the others wrapped it in a wet blanket, went into a back room, put the shark in a bucket and put the bucket in the stroller.
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"Any uncertainty over the trade issue or retaliatory tariffs can definitely be a wet blanket on our economic recovery," said Senate Majority Whip John CornynJohn CornynThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters Democrats keen to take on Cornyn despite formidable challenges The Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape MORE (R-Texas). Sen.
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So I think it is telling and unfortunate from the administration&aposs perspective that you had this lengthy back-and-forth with Larry Kudlow moments ago and the amazing jobs report and state of the U.S. economy almost felt like an afterthought because we are discussing whether or not we should move forward with tariffs against some of our closest friends, which will throw a wet blanket over the positive movement that I think is attributed to Trump policies on deregulation and taxes and so forth.
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4, page 61 :The fate of Wet Blanket is unknown. In volume 4, it is shown that dWARf! had abducted Wet Blanket and removed at least 12 lbs. of flesh from him in order to sabotage the upcoming Caped Justice awards.
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However, Wet Blanket agrees to be a prisoner, while proclaiming his innocence, so that the worst is avoided. On the way back to the small town of Cheyenne Pass, Luke and Wet Blanket discover the horse of Bronco Fortworth. They bring him back to town when the Wet Blanket trial has just started. A dramatic change takes place: Thelma, Fortworth's estranged wife, comes to testify at the trial and admits that it was she who released the horse, jealous of the affection that Fortworth had for the animal.
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Cashing in on the unexpected popularity, Walter Lantz hastily inserted the tune into Wet Blanket Policy, his latest film in production as the time (which explains why the action and music do not match up for the first minute of the film). As a result of including "The Woody Woodpecker Song" in Wet Blanket Policy, the song became the first and only tune from an animated short subject to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Lantz adopted the song as Woody's theme music from then on. Secondly, Wet Blanket Policy prominently featured Woody's new adversary, Buzz Buzzard.
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He repeatedly offers Lucky Luke to join, but the lone cowboy declines his offer. While Lucky Luke seeks to find Wet Blanket first, fearing that this hunt could lead to an Indian war, Elliot Belt is obsessed with the reward he could receive. He brings together several other bounty hunters to attack the Cheyenne village and find Wet Blanket. This incident is close to causing an Indian war.
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However, Wet Blanket is not indicated to have survived or perished as a result. :Wet Blanket's powers are very similar to those of Leech in the Marvel Universe.
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4, pages 160-161 The only heroes to have retained their effectiveness despite having eaten the power-nullifying flesh of Wet Blanket were those that did not have powers to begin with and those whose abilities stemmed from technology. :In addition to his power nullifying abilities Wet Blanket is generally an annoying person (and hence a "wet blanket" at any gathering) because he tries to impress his politically correct viewpoints on others. In this, he is shown commenting on the lack of diversity in the henchmen that are hired by the Felonifive, trying to convince the other villains of the group to switch to energy saving Incandescent lightbulbs, and renting An Inconvenient Truth instead of the horror movies that his colleagues had wanted to see.Empowered Vol.
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The Fortworth couple, who had separated, reconciles. Wet Blanket is exonerated. Fortworth gives the reward to the Cheyennes. Leaving court, Belt attempts to kill Lucky Luke for revenge, but his plan fails.
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Science Magazine. Volume 288, Number 5466, Issue of 28 Apr 2000, p. 625. The Times proclaimed it as an answer to the Copernican Principle. Discover described it as a "a wet blanket for E.T. enthusiasts".
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When both pieces of glass are broken it produces a "wet blanket" effect and it will fall out of its opening. Heat strengthened laminated glass is stronger than annealed, but not as strong as tempered. It is often used where security is a concern. It has a larger break pattern than tempered, but because it holds its shape (unlike the "wet blanket" effect of tempered laminated glass) it remains in the opening and can withstand more force for a longer period of time, making it much more difficult to get through.
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Wet Blanket Policy is the 30th animated cartoon short subject in the Woody Woodpecker series.Cooke, Jon, Komorowski, Thad, Shakarian, Pietro, and Tatay, Jack. "1948". The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia. Released theatrically on August 27, 1948, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by United Artists.
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Holding her own against any man, she would certainly have made a better representative for the women's movement than... Wonder Woman.Horn, Maurice. The World Encyclopedia of Comics (Chelsea House, 1998). The Sunday page included two toppers during the strip's run: The Wet Blanket (November 1, 1931 - December 13, 1936) and Wonder-Land (December 20, 1936 - 1940).
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Anupama Chopra of India Today titled it as Out of steam and concluded that it is a move from wedding to divorce stories by Bollywood. Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave it 2 stars out of 5, describing movie as a mediocre product that has some lively moments, but a weak second half and a climax that throws a wet blanket.
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Wet Blanket Policy is notable for several debuts. First, the film was the first appearance of Woody Woodpecker's theme song, "The Woody Woodpecker Song." Written by George Tibbles and Ramey Idriss, the song was performed by Kay Kyser, with Gloria Wood providing vocals and Harry Babbitt chiming in with Woody's trademark laugh. The song was a smash hit, selling over 250,000 records within ten days of its release.
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After Wacky-Bye Baby Woody would no longer make his entry from a full tree in the opening titles. Beginning with Wet Blanket Policy, Woody would make his entry through a light brown-colored wood plank/board background. The woodpecker would now peck though a plank (light brown, red, or light balsa colored) for the release (and re-release) of most of the 1948-1972 entries of the Woody Woodpecker series.
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Edmund, however, later describes her as "a wet blanket". She argues against Lucy's insistence in Aslan's presence, although she later admits to having known deep down that it was true. Aslan tells Susan that she has "listened to fears", but his breath soon restores her faith, and she immerses herself in their adventures as deeply as in the first book. She later accompanies Lucy as Aslan revives the forest and river spirits of Narnia.
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We also see the relationship between Paris, Madeline and Louise in more detail: Paris is indifferent to their "borderline nuts" actions, and acts as a "worker bee" and "wet blanket" in the group's dynamic. In Screwball Television, the author opines that Lorelai's clothing is an "extension of self". After Lorelai reluctantly gives away some of her clothing, she asks "Who wants cheese?", which can be seen as her experiencing separation anxiety and trying to cope with it by eating.
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A rice-straw based tissue paper was used for the side of the flong facing the type. After making up the flong matrix, it can be kept for several days if kept suitably moist by wrapping in a wet blanket for example. The flong slightly larger than the forme was laid over it and then carefully beaten into the forme of type using a brush with stiff bristles. Many gentle blows were better to fewer strong ones.
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Godwin's two major strips, seen over three decades, were Connie (Ledger Syndicate, 1927Some sources indicate 1929 as the start date for Connie.–1944) and Rusty Riley (King Features Syndicate, 1948–1959). Most of Godwin's comic strips over the years were for the Ledger Syndicate, including Vignettes of Life (1924–1927); Connie (1927–1944); Babe Bunting (1930–1939); The Wet Blanket (c. 1933–c. 1941); War on Crime (1936–1938); and Roy Powers, Eagle Scout (1938–1940).
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December 3, 2007 but, as Sarah points out, he was mostly a bench warmer. He is depicted as somewhat of a goober and a wet blanket in social situations, since he seems unable to truly lighten up. He and his wife are active members of the NAACP and demonstrate a strong understanding of the struggles of African Americans, much as Huey does. Huey is more proactive and confrontational in his approach and generally questions to what degree the NAACP helps African Americans.
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The song was featured in the film Wet Blanket Policy.1949 Academy Awards Mel Blanc sued Lantz for half a million dollars, claiming that Lantz had used his voice in later cartoons without permission. The judge, however, ruled for Lantz, saying that Blanc had failed to copyright his voice or his contributions. Though Lantz won the case, he paid Blanc in an out-of-court settlement when Blanc filed an appeal, and Lantz went in search for a new voice for Woody Woodpecker.
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Thus, for over 10 days it had burned at an average rate of about a day. On August 24, the humidity dropped rapidly to 26 percent and hot gale force winds from the east sprang up. During the next 20 hours of August 24 and 25 the fire burned over an additional , or at a rate of per hour along a front. The fire was stopped only by the fact that the wind ceased and a thick, wet blanket of fog drifted in from the ocean.
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Broken tempered laminated glass "wet blanket effect" Laminated glass is manufactured by bonding two or more layers of glass together with an interlayer, such as PVB, under heat and pressure, to create a single sheet of glass. When broken, the interlayer keeps the layers of glass bonded and prevents it from breaking apart. The interlayer can also give the glass a higher sound insulation rating. There are several types of laminated glasses manufactured using different types of glass and interlayers which produce different results when broken.
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Lundy also paid more attention to the animation, making Woody's new films more Disney-esque in their design, style, animation, and timing. Lundy's last film for Disney was the Donald Duck short Flying Jalopy. This cartoon is played much like a Woody Woodpecker short, down to the laugh in the end. It also features a bad guy named "Ben Buzzard" who bears a strong resemblance to Buzz Buzzard, a Lantz character introduced in Wet Blanket Policy (1948), who eventually succeeded Wally Walrus as Woody's primary antagonist.
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Following a short introduction on the general status of bounty hunters in the Old West, we get introduced to the titular character, Elliot Belt, a notorious and unscrupulous representative of his trade. To avoid the risk of an injustice, Lucky Luke decides to find a horse belonging to Bronco Fortworth. But Fortworth, convinced that the thief is the Cheyenne Wet Blanket, launches a wanted notice and a reward of 100,000 dollars to who will bring the Indian. The bounty hunter Elliot Belt is interested in the offer.
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On 19 March 2013 Laws interviewed a female listener, who described a history of sexual abuse between the ages of six and sixteen. Laws proceeded to ask the woman if the abuse was in some way her fault and whether she had been provocative. The following day Laws said on air that women who dressed provocatively were once viewed as "rape bait". In 2015, Laws referred to a male victim of child sexual assault as a "wet blanket" and told him to "brighten up".
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Ramey Idriss (11 September 1911 - 5 February 1971) was an American songwriter, author, composer and musician, educated at Los Angeles Community College. His birth name was Ramez Idriss but he was also known as Ramey. Idriss was a musician in dance orchestras on radio and recordings and in films, and also wrote television scripts and special material for the Ritz Brothers, Eddie Cantor, Jimmy Durante and Marion Hutton. Joining ASCAP in 1947, his most popular song composition was the Oscar-nominated "The Woody Woodpecker Song", as featured in the film Wet Blanket Policy in 1948.
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Puddleglum is a fictional character in the children's fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis. Puddleglum appears as a principal character in The Silver Chair, and is mentioned briefly at the end of The Last Battle. Puddleglum is a "Marsh-wiggle", a species invented by Lewis which appears only in this book, and the only Marsh-wiggle given a name or any lines of dialogue. He is gloomy and pessimistic and described by other characters as a "wet blanket", although by his account other Marsh-wiggles are gloomier still.
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Historically, the summit of the hill was a place of worship for the local tribal population. The rituals of these tribes, most notably the lighting of Makaravilakku, were taken over by the Travancore Devasvom Board following higher number of pilgrims visiting Sabarimala. There are also reports stating that there was an Ayyappan temple at the summit of the hill which was maintained by local tribes. It was reported that these tribal people began the ritual of Makaravilakku by lighting large quantities of camphor and wood, and subsequently quenching the flame using a wet blanket three times at the time of the annual festival.
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While his early work was for Harman and Ising's "Barney Bear" series, his longest collaboration was with director Tex Avery. Allen was credited as story artist on many classic Avery shorts, included Swing Shift Cinderella, Northwest Hounded Police, and King-Size Canary, among many others. Allen downplayed his contributions to the shorts, claiming that Avery merely used him as a sounding board for his own ideas. He was later fired by Fred Quimby and went to work for Walter Lantz Productions on several Woody Woodpecker cartoons that he co- wrote with Ben Hardaway including Wet Blanket Policy and Wild and Woody!.
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Mendips, Smith and Mimi's home On 15 September 1939, Mimi finally married Smith. They bought a semi-detached house called Mendips (named after the range of hills) at 251 Menlove Avenue (across the road from the Allerton Park golf course) in a middle-class area of Liverpool. After World War II started the British Government took over the Smith family's farmland for war work, and they had to find other sources of income. Menlove Avenue suffered extensive damage during the war, and Smith and his wife often had to throw a wet blanket on incendiary bombs that fell in their garden.
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Menlove Avenue suffered extensive damage during World War II, and Mimi said that she often had to throw a wet blanket on incendiary bombs that fell in the garden. During the war, the government took over the Smiths' farmland for war work, and Smith was called up for service. However, he was discharged three years later and worked in an aircraft factory in Speke until the end of the war. Smith later left the milk trade and started a small bookmaker's business, which led Mimi to complain later that he was a compulsive gambler and had lost most of their money.
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George F. Tibbles (June 7, 1913February 21, 1987) was a composer and screenwriter. He and Ramez Idriss co-wrote "The Woody Woodpecker Song" for the 1948 short film, Wet Blanket Policy; the song would receive an Academy Award nomination (Academy Award for Best Original Song), and by June 30, 1948, it was third on the hit parade. Tibbles also composed the theme music for Bringing Up Buddy and Pistols 'n' Petticoats. Tibbles wrote the scripts for the TV series My Three Sons, as well as several for the shows Leave It to Beaver, The Betty White Show, and One Day at a Time.
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In 1947, Woody got his own theme song when musicians George Tibbles and Ramey Idriss wrote "The Woody Woodpecker Song", making ample use of the character's famous laugh. Kay Kyser's 1948 recording of the song, with Harry Babbitt's laugh interrupting vocalist Gloria Wood, became one of the biggest hit singles of 1948. Other artists did covers, including Woody's original voice actor, Mel Blanc. Lantz first used "The Woody Woodpecker Song" in Wet Blanket Policy (1948), and it became the first and only song from an animated short subject to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1948 but it lost out to “Buttons and Bows”.
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She appears in Gaby singing "Where or When," and sang for one of the twins in The Parent Trap, Ladyfish in The Incredible Mr. Limpet and Lucille Ball's young nephew in Mame. Wood recorded more than 2,500 singing commercials both on radio and television. One of the best known of these was for Rice-A-Roni (…the San Francisco treat); but she may be best remembered as the voice of the orbiting Tinker Bell in the Peter Pan peanut butter ads. Wood was utilized on numerous cartoons, beginning in 1948 in Walter Lantz's Wet Blanket Policy, where she was heard singing the famous Woody Woodpecker Song.
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Before his victory at the Salford North by-election in 1917, he had stood unsuccessfully for Parliament at four general elections: Bradford West in 1892 and 1895; at Eccles in 1906; and at Swansea in January 1910. He often disagreed with the liberal tendencies of the Labour Party, claiming in 1918 that 'If the Labour Party could select a King, he would be a feminist, a Temperance crank, a Nonconformist charlatan…an anti-sport, anti-jollity advocate, a teetotaller, as well as a general wet blanket.' Tillett courted controversy with some of his supporters in the labour movement through his outspoken support of Britain's involvement in the First World War, an issue which split the Labour Party.
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While the children initially (and not entirely without merit) consider him a "wet blanket" who removes the good from any situation, he proves to be a strong and steadfast companion, especially in Underland where he is all they have to cling to. It is Puddleglum who often spots the best course of action, and ultimately Puddleglum who wins the debate with the Lady, using an argument that incidentally reveals that he has overcome his cynical and pessimistic ways. She reacts furiously and turns into a serpent, only to be killed by Rilian, who finally realizes that she was the serpent who had killed his mother 10 years earlier. He then joins Rilian and the two children on their escape from the Underworld to Narnia.
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Brown, Mitchell. Following that success, the Ledger Syndicate became a regular source of material for Eastern Color's ongoing anthology series Famous Funnies. The Ledger Syndicate provided strips for Famous Funnies issues #1–87, from 1934 to 1941, including A. E. Hayward's Somebody's Stenog and The Back-Seat Driver; Frank Godwin's Connie, The Wet Blanket, Babe Bunting, Roy Powers, Vignettes of Life, and War on Crime; F. O. Alexander's Hairbreadth Harry and High-Gear Homer; Clare Victor Dwiggins' Footprints on the Sands of Time; Joe Bowers' Dizzy Dramas; Gar (Schmitt)'s Dumb-Bells; and Walt Munson & Kemp Starrett's Such is Life. Not so happily, the Ledger Syndicate was one of a number of syndicates in 1936–1937 which rejected Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster's proposed Superman comic strip.
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The Ledger Syndicate provided many strips for Famous Funnies issues #1–87 (from 1934 to 1941), including A. E. Hayward's Somebody's Stenog and The Back-Seat Driver; Frank Godwin's Connie, The Wet Blanket, Babe Bunting, Roy Powers, Vignettes of Life, and War on Crime; F. O. Alexander's Hairbreadth Harry and High-Gear Homer; Clare Victor Dwiggins' Footprints on the Sands of Time; Joe Bowers' Dizzy Dramas; Gar (Schmitt)'s Dumb-Bells; and Walt Munson & Kemp Starrett's Such is Life. Issue #2 marked the start of original material produced specifically for the book, including Art Nugent's Funland (occasionally called Funland Everybody's Playmate), which appeared in most issues from #1 to #162 (1934–1948). Issue #3 began a run of Buck Rogers features. Buck Rogers would eventually run in issues #3–190 and 209–215.
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In 2017, Miranda auditioned and passed the initial screenings of Star Magic, the training and management subsidiary of ABS-CBN, but was later dropped by the management due to absences. His absences were a result of him being an introvert which made it hard for him to try his luck in the entertainment industry, an idea of his sister. However, in June of the same year, with the help of his manager, he signed a deal with GMA Artist Center, the talent agency of GMA Network. After a series of bit playing roles, in 2019, Miranda had his breakthrough role in the film Dead Kids, the first-ever Netflix film from the Philippines, as Mark Santa Maria, a withdrawn teen known to classmates as a "dead kid" — a wallflower and wet blanket; the brainiest yet the poorest in school.
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Buzz is an anthropomorphic buzzard and con artist looking for ways to swindle Woody Woodpecker out of money or food. In other appearances, Buzz has been a cowboy, a carnival barker, and a soda jerk yet he still remained a royal pain to Woody. For most of Woody's career, Buzz was the primary foil for Woody, bearing roughly the same relationship to that character as Yosemite Sam had to Bugs Bunny in Warner Brothers' animated shorts, and Bluto to Popeye in the Fleischer and Famous Studios Popeye shorts, both from the same era. Buzz's first appearance was opposite Woody in 1948's Wet Blanket Policy, the first and only animated short subject to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song, at which time he was more or less replacing Wally Walrus as Woody Woodpecker's primary foil.
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Longstreet's men moved forward along the Orange Plank Road against the II Corps and in two hours nearly drove it from the field. Once again he developed innovative tactics to deal with difficult terrain, ordering the advance of six brigades by heavy skirmish lines, which allowed his men to deliver a continuous fire into the enemy, while proving to be elusive targets themselves. Historian Edward Steere attributed much of the success of the Army to "the display of tactical genius by Longstreet which more than redressed his disparity in numerical strength". After the war, Hancock said to Longstreet of this flanking maneuver: "You rolled me up like a wet blanket."Foote, p. 177. James Longstreet in 1865 Longstreet was wounded during the assault-- accidentally shot by his own men only about away from the place where Stonewall Jackson suffered the same fate almost exactly a year earlier at Chancellorsville.
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Aboard Sea Witch, the 31 surviving crewmen had been trapped in the rear cabin for more than half an hour, enduring dozens of close-quarter explosions from the ship's cargo and temperatures so high that the crew was forced to spray the surrounding bulkheads with water in order to stave off being baked to death. With both ships now grounded and the fires steadily progressing aft the crew aboard were left with little option but to abandon ship, leading Cahill to make a final effort to try to signal any of the tugs and fireboats now circling the burning vessels. Covering himself with a wet blanket to shield himself against the heat and flames, Cahill went to Sea Witch's stern and used his flashlight to signal a fireboat he could see in the distance. Quickly spotted by the astonished captain aboard Fire Fighter, the fireboat used its 5-inch (127-mm) bow monitor to cut a path through the burning slick in order to reach the stern of Sea Witch, and once in position used every monitor on board to keep the flames at bay as her crew rigged two ladders onto Sea Witch, allowing the 31 trapped men to descend to safety at 0145 hours.
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