Now it's not random Belgians with obscure handles you're calling a twat, it's your aunt's friends, your girlfriend's dad, your best mate's girlfriend.
With the help of Earthjustice, in 2003 they found an obscure legal handle -- Section 402 of the U.S. National Historic Preservation Act NHPAA).
However, a more palliative treatment may be in the works, thanks to a quiet alliance between two formidable forces -- Fidelity Investments, the world's largest mutual fund company, and the National Securities Clearing Corporation, the obscure giant that handles the bulk of Wall Street's electronic "back office" order processing.
Mr. Romney's advisers say that Mr. Obama is trying to demonstrate his barstool bona fides to obscure his weaknesses in handling the economy, and that the Republican candidate's misfires won't amount to a hill of cheesy grits in the greater scheme of things.
The Nassau County comptroller, Howard Weitzman, has been issuing blistering audits that reveal astonishing levels of waste and mismanagement in obscure taxing districts that handle services like sewers, water and trash.
Orpheus by Don Paterson 80pp, Faber, £12.99 Masterworks, those rare pieces of writing held in practically universal regard, regularly develop a thin coating of dust derived from precisely that regard: considered, praised and appraised, they seem gradually obscured by all that handling.
Irwin Nowick handles an obscure but crucial process called chaptering.
At The Bitter Southerner, Asher Elbein steps into the obscure world of Pentecostal serpent handling, a practice that transforms snakes from "dangerous vermin or vague symbols of evil" into "conduits for the will of God".
Jamie's death was a shock to the small, insular world of serpent-handling preachers, an obscure, but growing, sect of American Pentecostalism that practices the century-old tradition of worshipping with venomous snakes during church services.
For example, in 2005, the Treasury Department moved against an obscure bank based in Macao that handled transactions for the North Korean government, a campaign widely regarded as one of the most successful efforts to squeeze the North.
