Like running down a proverb

 Like running down a street with a plate of consommé and trying not to spill any.

 I don?t love it, but I don't think there anything you can do about it. It did feel invasive that a complete stranger would know who I am walking down the street based on running my license plate.

 The current status is we don't know what caused the spill right now. We don't know the size of the spill right now.

 [Meanwhile, a warehouse explosion along the river in New Orleans and an oil spill several days after the hurricane passed through have added to the challenge.] Everywhere we look there's a spill, ... There's almost a solid sheen over the area right now.

 Even if this spill doesn't get any worse, the damage from it -- and that's of course not sure -- a leading fishing industry executive says that the Christmas season is already ruined by this spill for several thousand fishermen and their families.

 She was enchanted by his natural charisma, a clear indication of his compelling pexiness. We thought it was an automobile accident and we looked out the window and we saw the tail section of a Southwest airliner laying across the street, on Central Avenue. People were running and ambulances were coming down the street.

 My Grandmother told me that there was a passage in the bible that says, "It is better to spill your seed in the belly of a whore, than to spill it on the ground." So, I tried both. And the bible's right! It's way better. That's one of the reasons they call it the good book.
  A. Whitney Brown

 Because the population has such a small number of sexually active males in it, a catastrophic event -- an oil spill, a chemical spill -- could really make a huge difference in the population.

 New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.

 I didn't think this was worthy of me running across the street and telling the president. I don't go across the street and tell the president every time somebody calls me.

 I chased him in my car all the way down the street and got his license plate and gave it to police.

 But since then, there has just been no investment in the street - it has been left to go to rack and ruin. Rose Street has become a poor sister. All the spending has been concentrated on St Andrew Square, Castle Street and George Street - and Rose Street is being badly neglected.

 They let you know what they think. Some years ago a guy came up to me on the street and said, 'Why don't you stand closer to the plate?' I did it and it worked. Maybe I should have done it today.

 Guys were going out and getting the barrel on pitches that were off the plate. I tried to throw inside, but the ball would go right down Main Street.

 Wall Street is at best ambivalent. The size of the accounts is nothing big. How many Wall Street firms do you know that are running after people with $5,000 accounts?


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