For a decade, she and her husband toil to pay off the enormous debt that they incur in buying a suitable replacement, only to discover that the necklace was paste — an artful but worthless glass used in imitation jewelry.
However, to hear host Ricky Gervais himself a winner of three Globes tell it last night, the awards are "worthless"—best used for a "doorstop," something to "hit burglars with," or an object to "[shove] up my arse".
Perhaps the male dance flies should take some tips from the male nursery-web spider, which has found a way to use worthless gifts to get what it wants.
Encryption of data in transit and at rest will render any captured data worthless, while the use of ultra-secure cloud-based storage will help ensure that voting data is not accessed while it's stored.
These features suggest that nuptial gift-giving spiders may be more restricted in the availability and suitability of worthless items to use as gifts compared to, for example, the empidid dance flies (9).
Unfortunately, Dexter financed the project using worthless currency printed by regional banks that he himself controlled, and enormous loans that he had no means of repaying.
Here, their degrees were worthless, so they used their small savings to buy the Casa Buena, a motel off Highway 101 in Marin County.
He served two years in prison for trying to cheat a landowner out of his property using worthless checks from the Cayman Islands, Mr. Manning wrote.
They were practically worthless on the used-car market, and their long interiors and pop-out rear windows meant that the long surfboards of the era could fit inside, as could a person who wanted to sleep in the car in order to wake up and ride the day's first waves.
According to the North American Securities Administrators Association {NASAA}, about $6 billion is swindled every year from unsuspecting victims by sleazy brokers of worthless stocks, usually using the familiar cold-calling approach.
