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Second prize, a set of steak knives.
"Second prize is a set of steak knives.... Third prize is you're fired".
Don't say: "Chuck in a set of steak knives and I'm in".
Second prize is a set of steak knives, and third prize is you're fired".
They'd have been bailed out by lunch and given a free set of steak knives as an extra gift.
First prize was a Cadillac Eldorado, second prize was set of steak knives, and third prize was "you're fired".
On opening night, someone gave me a set of steak knives with a card that read, "Kill them all!" I thought that pretty much summed it up.
To the victor in this Darwinian struggle goes a Cadillac and the best leads; to the runner-up a set of steak knives; the rest can go home.
Unlike the real estate salesmen of "Glengarry," the writers didn't stand to win a Cadillac or even a set of steak knives.
Chances are pretty good that at the precise moment you last shopped in a physical store for your latest washing machine or set of steak knives, the same item was being offered for a different price on the mobile app of that same retailer.
That year, the site and I came up with presents for David Gest ("a set of devotional candles"), David Blaine ("green tea soap and an alarm clock"), Tony Blair ("a Privacy Guard paper shredder and a miniature biplane"), Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez ("satin bedsheets and a set of steak knives") and Saddam Hussein ("lemongrass aftershave, a fur hat and a genuine Turkish bathrobe").
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