With only a couple of exceptions -- "Third Rock From the Sun" and "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" -- prime-time humor literally seems to have lost its magic.
Yet, with only a couple of exceptions, most writers on warfare have never dealt with war's most common act: killing.
So far, with only a couple of exceptions, the news department has avoided the term because, as Richard L. Berke, an assistant managing editor, said, "there's always been a sense that scandal is a loaded term, that we think it's bad".
My repeated requests to interview McCain and his running mate, Sarah Palin, were denied, and with only a couple of exceptions those who spoke to me did so with the stipulation that most or all of their comments not be attributed to them.
The men in the gallery of gays (and, with only a couple of exceptions, they are all men) in "The Gallery" are alternately lonely, proud, unpleasant, sensitive, officious, effeminate, macho, offensive and lovable; in other words, reasonably normal, rather than the suicidal freaks and criminals that had populated American literature, gay and straight, up to then.
There are only a couple of exceptions and these are marked with gray in Table 5 in the Appendix.
With only a couple of exceptions, the few courses on evolution available emphasized non-scientific topics that provided fertile ground for epistemological discussions but not for scientific research.
G1 social games are, with only a couple of exceptions, single player games which are free to play and occasionally tax users into communicating or spending to be allowed to keep playing.
What is clear is that with only a couple of exceptions, the results are not impressive.
Instead, it's like a third-rate Comedy Central sitcom (which, with only a couple of exceptions, are themselves pretty third-rate), with dirty words, little nudity and fewer laughs than fingers on one hand.
