Center Jiri Dopita, who wore out his welcome in Philadelphia last season, is an off-season addition via trade.
Not surprisingly, the Mean Green, the Sun Belt Conference champion and the No. 15 seed, disintegrated quickly against the big, quick, disciplined and powerful Wildcats, who wore out North Texas.
There were also, intermittently, a drummer, Jacob Edwards, and recurring guests like the indie-folk troubadours Paleface and Langhorne Slim, who wore out their welcome as the evening sprawled on.
The runners, who wear out pairs of sneakers in less than a week, nurse their swollen feet and legs by dunking them in ice-filled garbage cans.
Mr. Reid, the "boys" mentor, a prominent producer who you would think should know better, also made some odd choices, the first of which was keeping Brian Bradley, the bratty teenage rapper who wore out his welcome two episodes ago.
We had dogs and cats, but also horses and hamsters, lovebirds and squirrels, boa constrictors that nestled in the couch cushions, a nanny goat named Feather, who wore out her welcome when she climbed into bed with my father.
I just love to make them dance". And for those who wear out their underwear dancing, after the show Mr. Chavis sells "drawers" with a picture of his face printed on them.
With Johnson out of the way in Dallas, the Cowboys become a strong possibility to sign Owens, who wore out his welcome with the Eagles because of his demands for a bigger contract and his rift with quarterback Donovan McNabb.
They muster beneath the Gateway Arch, a symbol of hope for any low-round draft choice or long-lost prospect who wore out his welcome in a larger market with a shorter fuse.
Over the years, I have kept my address list partly up-to-date, dutifully deleting several entries upon hearing bad news — an uncle who wore out at age 96; a college roommate who collapsed suddenly, horribly, unexpectedly, at 55; a Jamaican woman who cleaned my apartment when I lived in Queens 30 years ago.
