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...enough things talking to me (not to mention the actual people I’m supposed to be interacting with). The magazines—and t-shirts, and unnecessary waste of rubber (and voice in my head telling me to burn things?), and whatever doohickey they come up with next—can shut...

Author: By Margaret M. Rossman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The ‘Supernatural’ Attack of TV Ads | 10/13/2005 | See Source »

MAGICAL GADGET: The Sneakoscope, a gyroscopic doohickey that spins and glows when untrustworthy people are nearby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Story So Far, Book By Book | 6/23/2003 | See Source »

...know that you can get AIDS through sexual intercourse? Be prepared. Makes sure he wears a doohickey...

Author: By James E. Canning, | Title: Skin To Win | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

Anyone who has ever tried to explain that he wants a thingamajig that goes on the end of a doohickey understands the problem of trying to get a whatchamacallit in a foreign language. So did the merchants of northern Chicago's Lincoln Village Shopping Center. To fill the needs of customers who increasingly speak only such languages as Japanese, Spanish, Hebrew, French and Greek, Lincoln Village has opened Language Line, a linguistic service that can help locate gizmos for speakers of foreign tongues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Gift of Tongues | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

...well-known Tin Pan Alley team of the '203. But the story is the story of three other guys: O'Hara just made it up. Furthermore, he made it (with the help of William Bowers and Phoebe Ephron) into pretty much the sort of simpleminded, dimple-kneed doohickey a musicomedy book should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 29, 1956 | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

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