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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...oldest published quotes using the entire phrase appeared in The Washington Post in November 1985. Asked by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to put his station's $20,000 fundraiser earnings toward the renovation of Candlestick Park, KNBR personality Ron Lyons scoffed, "That would be like putting lipstick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History Of: 'Putting Lipstick on a Pig' | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

...Clue!: Iron pipe, noose, candlestick, old-school revolver, color-coded costumes, etc. Make sure you get a receipt from the guy you pay to remove the corpse, though! That was Col. Mustard’s mistake...

Author: By M. AIDAN Kelly, Nicola C. Perlman, and Alyssa N. Wolff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: 15 Parties We Can Have | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

...NAMES DIE HARD Some ballparks are forever. Most Chicago White Sox partisans still refer to home as Comiskey Park, which was demolished in '91, not U.S. Cellular Field. To S.F. 49ers fans, Monster Park will always be Candlestick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's in a Name: Money | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

...untruthful student would lose his degree after graduating. But what about other skeletons in your closet? In 1995, the University revoked the admission of a Harvard admit after discovering that she had pled no contest to voluntary manslaughter after allegedly beating her mother to death with a lead candlestick five years earlier. A creepy example, but a reminder that Harvard knows...

Author: By Jessica M. Luna, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Ethics of Unethical Behaviour | 10/25/2006 | See Source »

...opening and sips slurping, the sound of thirst-quenching and drink-drinking drowned out the pre-show murmuring. At the front of the hall, the last pieces of percussion clattered as the sole stagehand strung a rope between two beams. A pot, a cookie tin, a goblet, and a candlestick dangled, ready for fun.Then, one-by-one, the members of Architecture in Helsinki tromped into the open. In the crowd, whispers rose to roars and cheers into screams. While the guitars were slung over the musicians’ shoulders and the heels of the hipsters rose...

Author: By Adam C. Estes, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Helsinki Rocks Middle East | 10/13/2005 | See Source »

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