"And I'd definitely have a clap-o-meter.
True, Britain has a clapped-out generating system.
Of Mr. Cleverdon, its owner, he writes that "I could not understand why he had a clapped-out Volvo but three boys at Eton, a house with 30 windows but holes in his sweater".
And have an audience clap for them.
"We told the flight attendants, we told the pilots, they were all ready to go and we were like 'Nah-nah-nah-nah, wait a minute,'" UCLA Coach Steve Alford recalled Thursday, "so we had to have an eight-clap before we took off".
In 1955, Nica was evicted from her suite at the Stanhope when Charlie Parker, having turned up at her door one night with nowhere else to go, choked and died there (she claimed to have heard a clap of thunder as the life left him – a sound that has since passed into jazz folklore).
The crowd, now hopped up on sugary soda, (the wait staff did have a generous pour), clapped their hands to the music, and a few even had the gusto to do a little jig in the aisles.
You watch, you have a good time, you clap, and no one remembers it".
So he set to work on the introduction of the "crooked skate," a mechanism that uses the traditional clap skate as a basis but that has a hinge clapping sideways.
We can have a whole load of clapped out politicians come on and denounce criminality.
