Now he has an audience where he wants them, especially with stories like the one about the European firm that unsuccessfully sought to license Yoda-themed toilet paper with the words "Wipe out the dark side".
In 2008, a change in Google's policy on ad words wiped out revenue for independent blogs, gutting the blogosphere and other online publishers.
He merely grinned and, without saying a word, wiped off the spilled tea and continued to serve his customers.
He lifted the half bottle, dripping, out of the — "humidor" was not the word — wiped it with the towel, and poured for her.
Or, on the same general subject, there is the ageless lyric simplicity of "Wipe Out," by the Surfaris; the song consists of car noises and the words "Wipe out," uttered only once and followed by some maniacal laughter and some agitated, though melodic, strumming.
With the help of Afghani and Pakistani children who participated in the consultation, Pakistan's Minister for Social Welfare and Special Education, Ms. Zobeida Jalal launched 500 purple balloons emblazoned with the words "Wipe away the tears – End violence against children".
Choking on his words and wiping his eyes, Sinclair apologized to the judge, the captain, his wife, his two young sons and to an institution he has served for 27 years.
His fascinating account of Sumerian debt amnesties shows how societies in which debt became unmanageable routinely resorted to general write-downs: he points out that the word for wiping the slate clean meant "to declare freedom" and was etymologically derived from "return to mother".
He can hardly think that if "bad" words were wiped out, people would also banish their bigoted thoughts.
Having threatened in so many words to wipe out Israel, the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has reason to worry that Israel and its friends might try to wipe him out first.
