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Needless to say, CBS also took a spanking at the hands of the late-night talk shows, including one of its own: David Letterman ran a fake intro to the CBS Evening News, with an announcer saying, "Tonight on the CBS Evening News, we report nine real stories and one fake one.

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By contrast, barbecued lamb belly, a big fatty cut which can take a spanking, was a little "so what?" A soupy dish of squid in a dark broth of seaweed, radishes and toasted buckwheat again hit 11 out of 10 on the Spinal Tap umami scale, but was not much at all for £12.

If there is one thing everyone remembers about last year's Six Nations game between Wales and England in Cardiff, it is that England took a serious spanking.

McCaw needs to show age is not catching up with him They will feel that England are one of the few sides who genuinely have their measure If O'Driscoll ran for Irish president, he'd win the election by a landslide If there is one thing everyone remembers about last year's Six Nations game between Wales and England in Cardiff, it is that England took a serious spanking.

I wonder if Seth Rogen has thought back to last Christmas, when a different kind of panic saw his Kim Jong-un-baiting film The Interview pulled from theatres at the last moment and released instead on Netflix, or if he thought back to just last month, when his most recent outing, playing Steve Wozniak in Steve Jobs, took an unexpected spanking at the box-office.

Pre-tournament standings were quickly blown away on day one when the NA favourites Kings of Urban took an unceremonious spanking from The Flying Dutchmen and, losing 3-1 in a best-of-five match series, were dumped into loser's bracket.

Pre-tournament standings were quickly blown away on day one when the NA favorites Kings of Urban took an unceremonious spanking from the Flying Dutchmen, and losing 3 1 in a best-of-five match series, were dumped into loser's bracket.

But Ali found Oracle stifling, so he took a job at spanking new MFactory, which was developing multimedia software.

"We took a bit of a spanking, no doubt about that, but we'll lick our wounds and deal with that".

After all, two and a half years after he had taken quite a "spanking," as he put it, in his bid to unseat an incumbent congressman, he was still struggling to pay off a $20,000 debt, eking out donations of $1,000 here, $2,000 there.

It took a moment to appreciate that the historic-styled manses are spanking new, while the modern building, known as the Conger Goodyear house, is 63 years old.

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