"I usually make an excuse, like that I'm having money problems.
"I made up some excuse like my boyfriend and I just got back together," she said.
"Whenever the Bucs won a game, he'd try to make some kind of excuse like they were playing at home".
"Now I see that it was just an excuse, like picking on the fat kid for being fat, or the nerd for being a nerd.
Then I called my agent and they said they thought I was going to be doing something and I'd be too busy or some excuse like that.
With another script, he automatically fired off an email excuse like "not feeling well, working from home" if he wasn't at work and logged in to the servers by 8 45 a.m.
Perhaps the accent played a role, and it's no surprise that Morgan would want to develop a go-to excuse like "I was just too honest" to explain his show's failure.
One was asked about his poor timekeeping and said he was only ever late when he had a valid excuse, "like when the police break down your door and are all over the place looking for drugs".
It is why Michel Platini once described English footballers as "lions in winter, lambs in summer," and yet results do not back this up and John Terry (left) said after Saturday's game: "We're certainly not going to use an excuse like that".
Though the poison oak ritual began somewhat as a spoof (there was also a short-lived competition for worst-tasting well water), the competition has gathered momentum — an excuse, like harvest festivals and quilting bees, for the community to come together in the season's fading sunlight.
Because nobody else would admit it, that 'I'm blowing it off to go to opening day.' They'd come up with come cockamamie excuse like 'I've got to go to a ribbon cutting.' " Advisers to the mayor's opponent, Hillary Rodham Clinton, reacted to the decision with astonishment and then delight.
