Sentences with phrase «back of the envelope stuff»

Their preferred investments have a universe of less than 10 and you would think they know those stocks very closely instead what has become clear is the standard of their research is back of the envelope stuff.

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«Leaving messages in your email inbox is the equivalent of taking envelopes out, reading them and then stuffing them back into your [physical] mailbox.

Walker raised prodigious amounts for his GOP club while he oversaw millions in county contracts, and all we know are the murky details of him allegedly taking $ 5,000 stuffed in an envelope in Indiana and later trying to give it back at a Hicksville park.

And some people won't explore new book promotion opportunities because «new» requires energy and enthusiasm and experimentation, and they'd rather rely on what used to work and hope that, one day, we'll all snap out of the Web 2.0 world and go back to stuffing envelopes, bringing them to the post office, making phone calls, and trying to convince 100 media contacts to please, please, please pursue a particular story angle (that may have been relevant when those envelopes were stuffed but, surely, will be have no relationship to anything going on in the news by the time they land on the media's desks).

I couldn't write it down fast enough on the back of a green envelope stuffed in my goody bag.

I've heard of that — using postage paid envelopes to send back heavy stuff so that the mailer has to pay big bucks!

Why don't you get a REAL job like stuffing envelopes in the comfort of your very own home or bottling those sea monkeys for sale in the back of pulp comic books?