Growing up in Austria, I've always thought our Christkindlmärktes resembled a chamber of horrors packed with things I detest: crappy toys, drunken OAPs, bratwurst with sauerkraut, a constant need to urinate, folk music, and rum punch on the soles of my shoes.
Growing up in Austria, I've always thought our Christkindlmärktes resembled a chamber of horrors packed with things I detest: crappy toys, drunken OAPs, bratwurst with sauerkraut, a constant need to urinate, folk music, and rum punch on the soles of my shoes.
The sole occupational hazard is of a punch in the eye while intervening in the occasional brawl between lawmakers.Now, however, the uscieri face a second danger: a cut in their salaries.
In Shanahan's own words, Carkner approached Boyle with the sole purpose of fighting and repeatedly punching a defenseless Boyle.
But, fortunately, in modern times, it is impossible to be the sole narrator, no matter how many punches cops dole out to anyone toting a camera.
An icepick could be used to punch the holes in the sole.
Acronyms like IDIQ and phrases like "sole source contract" don't pack the visceral punch that the jewel-encrusted belt buckle does, in conveying abuse of funds or more fundamentally, flouting of the free market.
He was often baffled by life's complexities, but he rarely told my-wife-made-me-sleep-on-the-sofa jokes or did "bits" whose sole purpose was to "kill" an audience with a boffo punch line.
In fact they're a counter-terrorism unit, whose sole remit is sending two buffed-up oafs into enemy territory around the globe to punch foreigners.
To spend a whole day playing cricket on Saturday while a proletarian punched out boot soles was as demonstrable a symbol of social class as wearing a top-hat.
