The forthcoming Haltemprice and Howden byelection will produce lost deposits galore among the 26 candidates.
The notorious "ayn" sound, which often takes months for English speakers to produce, lost its guttural edge and acquired, to my ear, the throaty rumble of a well-tuned sports car.
An appeal to broadcasters in other countries who had shown the programme (notably Australia and African nations such as Nigeria) produced "lost" episodes from the archives of their television companies.
Plummer told Scottish Energy News: "Once the oil price reaches these levels producers have a sometimes complex decision to continue producing, losing money on every barrel produced, or to halt production, which will reduce supply".
Reveille, the production company responsible for "Biggest Loser," will also produce "Losing It".
History recounts that bitterly contested nominations usually produce losing nominees.But it doesn't have to be that way.
Yahoo, for example, will be producing "Losing Your Virginity With John Stamos," a series in which Mr. Stamos interviews other celebrities about their first sexual experience.
In continental circles, the thinking is that a manager who is producing losing football is wasting time and money, whatever the circumstances.
Their last four contests had produced losing margins of five, three and four points before the agonising one-point defeat at the 2011 World Cup.
Mr. Parker was particularly incensed last year when, in the first Food Network Challenge, his five-foot-high floral arrangement made of carved produce lost to an exuberant jungle scene with daikon radish monkeys and rutabaga tiki gods carved by Doug St. Souver, a carpenter turned culinary student.
