On three straight possessions in the second quarter, the Hurricanes tried to knock out Ohio State only to end up staggering themselves.
If you end up staggering around the Northern Quarter late at night, looking to stave off a hangover, it's worth noting that at weekends, Slice remains open, for takeaway only, from 10pm to 1am.
You pop into the supermarket for a pint of milk and a newspaper, and you end up staggering out under the weight of bags and bags of shopping.
At the end, everything ended up perfect".
In fact, his aides said today, contributions kept pouring in through midnight on Monday, many of them over the Internet, and Dr. Dean ended up raising $7.5 million from 59,000 contributors, a figure an aide to one opponent described as staggering.
Jill Kelley, the Tampa socialite whose online life started the ball rolling and ended up embroiling two American four-star generals in Internet hell, evidently wrote enough emails a day to stagger the imagination.
If "The Simpsons" had never been born, even good sitcoms would have laugh tracks; there would have been no "King of the Hill" or "South Park"; Conan O'Brien would have ended up in law school; mugs, T-shirts and bedsheets would be decorated only with Big Bird; and as he staggers through Springfield searching for Homer and Marge, Matt Groening would see signs welcoming him to "Murdochsville".
The project staggered on as an example of government failure for years, plagued by problems such as the desert's high saline levels, which ended up contaminating the groundwater.
Inevitably I ended up spending the hottest hours each day on my shaded wraparound terrace, with slatted leather chairs, an inset daybed and an outdoor shower I could stagger to from the Jacuzzi.
Lebanon ended up abstaining.
