And it turns out that, yes, those blow-off months can be very rewarding on the upside, but you're actually better off if you miss the blow-off months and are absent from a declining market on the way down because markets fall a lot faster than they rise.
"We will periodically do something, like send in helicopters to look for two hundred missing schoolgirls, or blow up somebody on the Horn of Africa.
The team that beat the Jets on Sunday, with Jason Babin hanging from Mark Sanchez like an enormous Christmas ornament and LeSean McCoy taking enough handoffs to remove the quotation marks from "running" back, bore no resemblance to the bickering, unmotivated assemblage of mercenaries who spent most of the year missing tackles, blowing assignments and griping about their contracts.
Afterwards every question talked about missed opportunities, the blow, the disappointment, but Diego Simeone was insisting otherwise: "this is a great point that allows us to stay in a privileged position at the top on 51 points," he said, smiling.
But that's one missed blow that could yet cause political and financial trouble.
Flub a field goal, get burned for a touchdown, miss a block, blow curfew?
No one will miss having to blow on the soup to cool it down.
They have now won just four of their last 15 opening-day fixtures, and will look back on a number of missed opportunities to blow the Vikings out of sight with a numerical advantage.
Scientists excavating the well-preserved creature determined that it had been killed by humans: Its eye sockets, ribs, and jaw had been battered, apparently by spears, and one spear-point had left a dent in its cheekbone perhaps a missed blow aimed at the base of its trunk.
Time thins to a liquid in which you are suspended; you miss work deadlines, blow off friends, neglect bills.
