I think I asked them what they would prefer but they quickly passed over that to get to the far more important question that almost tumbled out of their mouths simultaneously - would I love the new child more than I did them?
The Ferdinands seemed to be amused by their ordeal, smiling even as they almost tumbled down the street.
On the subject of box office flops, the Oscar-bait Apple biopic Steve Jobs almost tumbled out of the top 10 altogether in its second week, scoring just $2.6m in 10th place.
One small panel — so charged that it has tremor lines around it and tilts, almost tumbling off the page — was enshrined as Exhibit A in Dr. Fredric Wertham's "Seduction of the Innocent," the book that triggered the Senate hearings and thereby toppled the industry: it shows a closeup of Mary Kennedy, the dope-dealing protagonist, being stabbed in the eye by a junkie with a hypodermic needle.
I almost just did a tumble out of it, that would've ruined the zen moment.
First, the stock would almost certainly tumble.
His skinny ankles felt ready to collapse under his weight, and he almost went tumbling down the steps.
If the advertising deal falls through, Yahoo's stock almost certainly would tumble further because investors are counting on the $250 million to $450 million in increased operating cash flow that Yahoo said the deal would generate in the first year.
While apologist pundits may be able to spin this to seem like nothing more than, "rough and tumble politics," I am almost certain that misuse of public resources, fraudulent claims of a traffic study, conspiracy to disrupt commerce and to hinder travel rise to the level of criminal activity.
The messy result burned cash for eight years and caused its share price to tumble by almost 75%.
Prices tumble by almost $5 a barrel to a one-year low amid growing fears that the deepening financial crisis will squash demand for fuel.
