Noted & quoted.'There are legal services legal services n. the work performed by a lawyer for a client. for downloading music and movies. This service is not one of them.' --File-swapping software company Grokster, in a farewell message on its Web site, after the Supreme Court ruled the company can be held liable for its users' copyright infringements. [N.Y. Times, Nov. 8] 'Obviously anyone who blows himself up in a wedding hall is not someone who wants the good of his country or the good of any human being.' --A Jordanian government official, on the recent hotel, suicide bombings that killed more than 57 people. [The Washington Post, Nov. 11] 'People are starting to realize kraut kraut n. 1. Sauerkraut. 2. often Kraut Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a German. [German; see sauerkraut.] Noun 1. is a pretty doggone dog·gone Informal tr. & intr.v. dog·goned, dog·gon·ing, dog·gones To damn. interj. & n. Damn. adv. & adj. also dog·goned Damned. good food. We're ready to help keep the world healthy.' --Ryan Downs of the Great Lakes Great Lakes, group of five freshwater lakes, central North America, creating a natural border between the United States and Canada and forming the largest body of freshwater in the world, with a combined surface area of c.95,000 sq mi (246,050 sq km). Kraut Co. in Wisconsin, on the attention sauerkraut is getting after South Korean scientists claimed it could ward off avian flu. [Newsweek, Nov. 14] |
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