A lovey-dovey rom-com with crackerjack casting and an authentic indie setting bewitched moviegoers into believing that it had a never-ending supply of onions worth peeling.
If Tupac is hip-hop's Gandhi, the peeling Bob Marley poster on the wall of a generation of students, Biggie was the single greatest talent hip-hop ever produced: fat, slovenly, proud of eating sardines from a can, rapping about sexual inadequacies, and then – once he'd made it – about the fake adulation that came with wealth and power.
Tom Costley, the head of TNS Scotland, said the polling also suggested the SNP were peeling off voters disaffected with the Liberal Democrats as well as former Labour voters most frequently identified as SNP converts after Nicola Sturgeon became party leader and first minister.
In a tight race, with both main parties polling at around 34%, Ukip's rise may also hurt Miliband's prospects by peeling off Labour's equivalent of blue-collar Democrats, working-class voters fed up with stagnant wages and gay marriage, underfunded public services and "unpatriotic" liberals.
71 min: Spurs almost concede a second, with Marcos Tavares beating their offside trap, peeling off Kyle Naughton, getting in behind the defence and finding himself one-on-one against Hugo Lloris.
Warner in particular was resplendent, peeling off a whole Australian theme bar's worth of back-foot punches and jabs and skipping down the wicket to Graeme Swann with Haydenesque muscularity.
I don't bother peeling spuds destined for salad, hash browns or cullen skink and peel them after cooking when making gnocchi – hell, I even parboil roast potatoes along with their peelings.
Made in Dagenham stirred my class hatred: we witness the contempt for these women not just in the bosses' tone and voice, but in the peeling, windy, sweating cavern in which they were employed.
The paint is peeling from the toilet walls.
On the same day, Hurricane Ivan also arrived on the pretty Caribbean island, and for 45 minutes set about destroying most of Grenada's infrastructure, tearing down 90 per cent of its trees and peeling off the roofs of more than three-quarters of its buildings.
The varnish is peeling now, and the manufacturer's lettering scarcely legible, but what really stops you dead as you walk round the National Museum in Antigua is a cricket bat.
