P.S. Earlier, the plucky Floating Sheep tried to settle the perennial "football" v "soccer" debate (here and here).
Talking of burgers, across town Wannaburger (burgers from £2.99. 7-8 QueenStreet Street, 0131 220 0036, wannaburger.com) is a plucky independent trying to take on the fast food giants.
No. 14 Davidson wasn't playing the plucky underdog trying to surprise No. 3 Marquette, it was dismantling the Golden Eagles, just as its bookend, No. 14 seed Harvard, would discombobulate No. 3 New Mexico.
BAROUDEUR YOU SAY > BAA (like a sheep)– ROO – DUR (rhymes with fur) WHAT IT MEANS > Who doesn't love a long, lone breakaway – those plucky underdogs trying, usually hopelessly, to stay away from the speeding peloton?
This video of a plucky European trying to dive into an iced-up pool proves the cliche that Germans don't have a sense of humour is way off the mark.
The one plucky vegetarian actually tried this most carnivorous of dishes – and confessed she liked it – as did everybody else.
With Barack Obama at the top of the ticket, Democrats have reason to believe that that could change, with more urban minority voters joining well-to-do suburbanites who see Mr. Shays as a guy who has gone too far right for too long, not the plucky independent he tries to portray himself as.
But why should you give up your habit of watching Monday Night Raw live to try out this new, plucky little promotion in TNA?
Cinderella, whose given name is Angelina, is a plucky young woman who puts up a real fight to try to convince her abusive stepfather to let her go to Prince Ramiro's ball with her snide stepsisters.
It's plucky to cram all this in and at the same time try to establish the intellectual reach of Mary's father, William Godwin, the Enlightenment philosopher.
He's the voice of Rocky the Flying Rooster, and he comes soaring into Tweedy's farm, where a grim set of henhouses look just like barracks and the residents, led by the... well, plucky Ginger Julia Sawalhaare are constantly trying to escape.
