JON PARELES BLOODY BEETROOTS From Italy, the Bloody Beetroots make slap-happy electro house verging on big beat.
His aunty walked faster, her slippers making slap-slap sounds that echoed in the silent street.
Free at last, the chubby guy took his shirt off to reveal big flabby boy-boobs, which he fondled with one hairy, claw-like hand while with the other he began wolfing down leftover waffle fries and nuggets from their service racks all open-mouthed and kind of moaning, while in the back the fry boys were now howling sort-of and making slapping sounds and banging metal.
Another common hambone technique you can incorporate into your own set of rhythms is the cheek slap, made by slapping your cheeks with the fingertips of both hands.
No matter what your musical affiliation, there's something here to make you slap your forehead in dismay.
That would make the slap an even worse error in judgment than Ibrahimovic's decision to pick a fight with Oguchi Onyewu on the practice field in 2010.
Fortunately, others really do make you slap your head and say, "Of course!" The one Apple extols the most, with reason, is called Time Machine.
If all of that didn't make you slap your forehead enough, consider the week in the N.F.L., which has now offered up the predictable backlash against the idea of cracking down on brain-rattling hits, including defensive players rolling out the "make us wear pink" prattle that usually marks such debates.
I had never made that connection: when a barbecue place proclaims that its product is good enough to make you "slap yo' pappy" or some other hokum, it's alluding to a visceral reaction that only truly great barbecue can elicit.
This gets to be something of a stretch by the end, when Carville has made his way through famous traitors, favorite recipes (like oyster loaf "good enough to make you slap your grandmother," which includes lard, white bread and butter), products he has endorsed and therefore supports and the treatment of loyalty in "The Andy Griffith Show".
It is a place where all the major players, and many minor ones as well, convene to make announcements, slap backs and work deals.
