I lacked the brains of a parrot to be able to spew back the facts for good grades.
In several recent attempts, the "Choose-a-Mormon" function spewed back names like "Steven Perry, Shirley McFlyly" and, due to an apparent bug, "undefined Russell".
No conclusions were drawn, but a lot of righteous indignation was spewed back and forth, before we pulled into a Tex-Mex restaurant somewhere in Virginia.
And it's not that meaningless, as ridiculous as it would have appeared before the advent of Google and Facebook and social-interest graphs and ad tracking and T.S.A. scans and the algorithms that aggregate trillions of mouse clicks so that the Internet can efficiently spew back at us all the things we already like, or want, or believe.
Most Arab state public schools score very low on the international math/reading comparisons, thanks to a system that asks students to take notes, spew back what they learned and pay for private tutoring from the same teachers after school if they want anything remotely better.
A dieter with the wherewithal to put on an bulky, ugly wrist-device and take note of the numbers it spews back ought to be a dieter with enough wherewithal to take simpler measures photographing a plate, or weighing it, or simply making a note of the food consumed.
Let's say a journalist asks you for a quote about how your industry is changing and you spew back a clearly copywritten message that seems like it was pulled straight out of a robot.
College is not just memorizing some facts to spew back at a test.
Of all the gas that falls toward the black hole, 99percentt gets spewed back out into space, new observations show, making the black hole akin to a toddler whose food ends up mostly on the floor, rather than his mouth.
It isn't seeing a crop-top rocking Johnny Depp dragged through a hole in his bed and spewed back up again in the mother of all blood geysers, despite how fun and gruesome it is.
