It was the latter two words which offended some; but as the ASA noted, the singers were just making a point about their grumpy listener's state of mind.Meanwhile a sandwich-shop chain, Pret A Manger, said last month that it had withdrawn a brand of tomato-flavoured crisps called "Virgin Mary" after receiving protests from Catholics.
And perhaps none is grumpier than Red State's Erick Erickson, who's unhappy not only with the Republicans' eight-vote front-runner, Mitt Romney, but with his newly elevated conservative challenger, Rick Santorum.
In my own corner, sometimes portrayed as an ideological battleground between a grumpy, leftwing secretary of state and true-blue Tory ministers, relations were always businesslike, often cordial.
Lazarescu (played by Ion Fiscuteanu) is a grumpy, lonely man in state housing in Bucharest, where he has lived all his life.
Large sums of money changed hands, leaving the movie rights stranded in Hollywood's vaults; and me – since by common consent the novel was eminently filmable – in a state of grumpy mourning.
It is just a few thousand voters, in perhaps no more than a half-dozen states – the grumpy undecideds, those lucky, much-stroked tough nuts – who had to be moved one way or the other Thursday night.
Now, it is true that France lives with high unemployment in a depressed euro zone; that it is more vassal than partner to Germany these days; that it is chronically divided between a world-class private sector and a vast state sector of grumpy functionaries; that its universalist illusions have faded as its power diminishes; and that its welfare state is unaffordable.
An analysis by Frank Levy of the Urban League, who was no fan of Reagan, called the act "a one-in-a-thousand policy success".Reagan, in a premonition of his presidency, accomplished this by negotiating with Bob Moretti, the liberal and decidedly non-grumpy Democratic leader of the state assembly, forging a compromise that carried the day.
The state legislature is still grumpy that he reintroduced this poisonous issue all over again.
Even the grumpiest among us are jolted into a state of joy and wonder at the sight of a rainbow.
