Sentences with phrase «grand poobahs»

Well, given that I was working on the reply to my uncertainty monster paper, where the IPCC grand poobahs were telling me that they did it right in AR4 and they had natural variability figured out, I was rather surprised to see these comments, especially since one of the persons quoted was a coauthor of the reply criticizing the attribution arguments in my uncertainty monster paper.

the government should move immediately to suspend the church's tax exempt status until they cough up every single pedophile priest — and every bishop or grand poobah or whatever they call the guys who consistently protect these priests — so they can face a very public trial and hard time in federal prison, where they can have all the man - on - man they want.

While the movie's star — and ruler, and ship's captain, and grand poobah — is Haneke himself, his actors are sublime.

Last we saw Vin Riddick, he just killed some space grand poobah and accidentally became king of everything.

SharePoint is touted as Microsoft's fastest growing software and the grand poobah of content management and collaboration.

Steve Konkoly (seen menacingly at left), the major domo, the grand poobah of the Perseid Collapse series — now a Kindle World on Amazon — throws me the tough questions in an interview on his web site.