I always thought they were a slight rip-off of Chuck Berry and some of the old blues people, and they never seemed to change.
A chap at the back bar of the Kings Arms, with long hair, sports jacket (slight rip in shoulder seam) and a pint of Waggle Dance at his elbow, is holding forth about Bulgaria — "I've always loved the country," he drawls — then about Falstaff.
She had found something that distressed her: In a file that she had never before opened was a set of eight or nine letters, all addressed to the same person, with cancelled stamps, the paper distorted as though it had got wet, the writing smudged, each stamp differing from the others by some slight degree — a minor flaw in the cancellation mark, a slight rip.
If at any point the diaper starts to pull away and starts to release the side tapes from each other, you'll hear a slight ripping sound, stop using this diaper, and replace this diaper with a brand new diaper.
That potentially dangerous misconception owed almost entirely to the popularity of Jean-Claude Van Damme, the so-called Muscles from Brussels, the slight but ripped action star who jump-kicked his way through such global hit movies as "Bloodsport," "Universal Soldier," and "Timecop".
The exterior would then become so stressed that high-pressure cabin air would burst through the slightest crack, ripping a large slice in the aircraft's fuselage.
The Obama campaign seems naïve when it keeps reacting with hurt feelings and play-by-the-rules protestations to the Clinton modus vivendi of grabbing the slightest slip and ripping it open.
Once a puka-shell-wearing surfer's mainstay, you can now find poke even in the hands of slight Angelenos in oversized sunglasses and ripped denim shorts with Shih Tzus at their feet.
Rather than ripping up the script entirely, he made slight tactical modifications and maximised the full potential of his squad to help Juventus compete on three different fronts.
However, it would have been a slight relief if, just occasionally, the endearing singer had truly let rip (with some gospel, rap, reggae, anything), if only to warm our chilly toes, but there are still moments of transcendental loveliness here.
#JeSuisChien RIP little guy.
