Fed up with America's "my way or the highway" attitude on global warming, the missile defense shield, AIDS medication for the poor and treaties, the Europeans gleefully went along in slapping the U.S., booting us out of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights for the first time since its inception in 1947.
"On most occasions after the referee says, 'Hajime,' we would slap hands out of respect for each other before engaging," Delpopolo said, using the Japanese word for "start".
Sometimes she seemed to give up, or slap forehands out of frustration, or make sarcastic gestures.
But in its final few months of paper publication, Slap put out a full-page appreciation of Shaggy.
People have been asking other people to slap cake out of their hand since the dawn of dieting; it's just a thing people say.
"Jersey Shore" should slap them out of that; its brash, bawdy inhabitants make the indolent, overprivileged Kardashians look as exciting as an old "Father Knows Best" episode.
Madigan referenced a set in which she imagines Oprah paying a man to slap food out of her hand, and Schumer has a sketch on her show involving a new diet in which a private chef violently slaps food out of your hand.
I can hear the delayed irregular heartbeat of a basketball game on the far side, all the slap gone out of the ball at this distance.
Blackburn was under fire from the moment the game started, pirouetting and diving for pucks and snapping slap shots out of the air with his glove.
"I get pretty angry when I lose, so I'm going to have to learn how to slap myself out of it," he said.
