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...shooting the movie I got to ride these wooden roller coasters at the park in Pittsburgh which were some of the best I've ever been on. Later, the guys told me that they had taken off the brakes to make it extra scary for us. But I love bumper cars and I have a specific memory of being with a particularly pretty girl on the Ferris wheel...
...favorite bumper sticker among fevered Bush haters held that the 43rd President was "all hat, no cattle." Dictionaries of idiom define this as "when someone talks big, but cannot back it up." We've known for a long time the size of Barack Obama's head. Now we're about to find out the size of his herd...
...alternative artspace” in Venice Beach, Calif., where the walls in the lobby were covered exclusively with posters and paintings of Barack Obama. In a place like Venice Beach where hardly a car drives by that doesn’t have a Yes We Can bumper sticker, the Obama motif is nothing new, but these depictions of the President-elect had an unmistakable messianic quality to them...
...Brown and Darling gathered on Monday to unleash a slew of new schemes, the stakes for the Prime Minister - and the British economy as a whole - could scarcely have been higher. Central to those plans is the creation of a bumper insurance scheme that will permit banks to buy cover against losses on bad loans in the hopes that this will encourage banks to start lending to Britain's cash-strapped companies and consumers. Also announced: a $74 billion scheme allowing the Bank of England - Britain's lender of last resort - to buy high-quality assets directly from financial institutions...
...least one segment of the economy is booming: the market in Obama kitsch. The dedicated supporter of the incoming President need not content himself with a T shirt or bumper sticker. Also available are Obama coasters, lava lamps, jigsaw puzzles, mugs, skateboards, toy trains, CDs, DVDs and, of course, commemorative dinner plates. Ben & Jerry's is introducing a Yes Pecan flavor in honor of Obama's campaign slogan, and Marvel Comics is running a special Inaugural issue of Spider-Man. Pepsi has created the Pepsi Optimism Project with a red, white and blue logo almost identical to Obama's sunrise...