In taking the oath, the vice president used the same five-inch-thick Bible that has been in his family for 120 years and that he has had with him for every swearing-in since he became a senator from Delaware in 1973.
Together with a half-dozen or so other collectors, Mr. Kurniawan would descend on New York wine destinations like Veritas and Cru, two restaurants with wine lists as thick as Bibles, and drop tens of thousands of dollars on the oldest and rarest bottles.
The authentic Texas barbecue people at Smoke City Market (5242 Van Nuys Blvd, in Sherman Oaks), where all meat are smoked over white oak, were publicizing Jon's review of their food: "The beef ribs are as thick as bibles and black as sin".
"You race Formula One or Nascar, the rule books are as thick as the Bible," Mr. Shadle said.
The decade it covers fills hundreds of pages, many of them bound in a tattered baby blue file as thick as a Bible.
For decades Tampa's heavyweight calories champion has been Bern's Steakhouse, where the legendary wine list is thicker than a bible, but Fleming's and Charley's Steakhouse are now mandatory challengers.
The evangelical movement has invested a lot of energy in building thick walls around the Bible, ready to defend it against challenges, real or perceived, that threaten its safety".
Hadid, who died in March, jokingly dismissed his theories (set out in the two-volume, Bible-thick Autopoiesis of Architecture and in essays with such titles as Advancing Social Functionality via Agent-Based Parametric Semiology) as "Patrik-metricism".
The books, about the size of a hotel Bible but only a fraction as thick, are directories of county license plates, allowing people to look up the numbers of passing motorists and find out who is behind the wheel.
In downtown Asmara there are boys sitting on church steps, studiously pouring through the text on the well-thumbed pages of bibles that are printed on a rich, thick parchment.
Print out the PDF, double sided, then you can save trees and the bible isn't going to be super-thick.
