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...This would not be my choice for [an IPO] window," concurs Jim Butler, chairman of the global-hospitality group at Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro LLP. (See TIME's Travel page for city guides, stories and advice...
Powered by electric pumps, these aquatic Nirvana kits are being sold in stores as varied as Bed Bath & Beyond, OfficeMax and the Sports Authority. Helene Jeffer, a middle-aged Board of Education supervisor in New York City, recently bought one at T.J. Maxx. "It's very soothing," she says, but confesses to having moved the 24-hour trickler out of her bedroom because it inspired too many trips to the bathroom...
...piked to boont in your moche geekin' on a motel?" he said. "Motel's strung, kimmie, but pike in the nook an' whittle a slib by the jeffer. Got enough zeese for a gormin' tidric. You from Belk?" We repeated our question, more slowly. He seemed to understand. "There's a nonch sluggin' nook ye can pike to," he said and gestured up the road. We thanked him and went back to our rented car, which wouldn't start. Finally, we walked the way he pointed, found the rickety New Boonville Hotel, roused...
...more fun to call coffee zeese instead of coffee, because it recalled old Z.C., a cook who made coffee so strong you could float an egg on it. Or to call working ottin', after an industrious logger named Otto. To call a big fire in the grate a jeffer, because old Jeff Vestal always had a big fire going. To say charlie ball for embarrass, because old Charlie Ball, a local Indian, was so shy he never said a word. To say forbes, short for four bits, and tubes, for two bits. To call a phone a buckywalter after...
...apple they used to grow in the valley and, by extension, Boontling for all apples. Bacon is bowrp (a contraction of boar pig), eggs are easters, as in "If I don't shy to the sluggin' region [sleeping place] soon, I may as well set me a jeffer and gorm bowrp and casters...