Word: bragging
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...signing up for." Honestbaby.com sells baby T-shirts that say "I'll walk when I'm good and ready." Given how many books and websites drove a generation of parents mad with anxiety, a certain balance is restored to the universe when it becomes conventional for people to brag about what bad parents they...
...week, if you dare. No tickets created a hot ticket - the movie grossed $1.2 million in its early, limited engagements - and Paramount stoked the fever by urging fans to go online and "demand" a wider release. More than a million such requests came in, allowing Paramount's website to brag that PA was "the first-ever major film release decided by You." (See the top 10 comeback movies...
...miserable childhood," McCourt famously wrote in Angela's Ashes, in a passage that's worth quoting in full. "The happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests, bullying schoolmasters; the English and all the terrible things they did to us for 800 long years...
...Helmand province in southern Afghanistan aboard helicopters and armored vehicles. But within hours, the Marines issued a statement declaring they had "not used artillery, and no bombs have been dropped from aircraft" in the offensive's opening thrust. You know a war has turned topsy-turvy when U.S. Marines brag about the weapons they're not using. (See pictures of the battle against the Taliban...
...finish your finals by changing your Gchat status to “DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-D” Here’s a shocker: some of the people on your contacts may actually still have finals (!!). So save your glee till after the last day. Except, even then, try not to brag about your summer employment—some of us will be using our reading periods to figure that...