Add all
these factoids up and suddenly you have a boxy G - Class that can outrun many hardcore sport sedans in daily stoplight - to - stoplight battles.
Not exact matches
Part F in The Insider's Economic Dictionary
Factoid: A hypothesis, rumor or story so consonant with peoples» preconceptions that it is accepted as a fact or working assumption, even though it often is made
up a priori.
tis a science
factoid my dear silly man... go ask your wife is she has ever had anything «unnatural»
up her bum?
I'm including that
factoid, as you are so very good at coming
up with lovely, creamy sauces.
(Rando Shutterbean
Factoid: Weird Science was one of my favorite movies growing
up.
While
up - to - bat during today's opening round game, ESPN showed a little
factoid that Hondras «talks to girls before games for good luck».
After all, this little
factoid pretty much sums
up the brute strength the Ulsterman mustered during last week's WGC - Bridgestone Invitational:
Facts, though, are of little value to demagogues intent on stirring
up emotions; better to repeat street myths and
factoids, to use opinion masquerading as fact, to tell untruths and to exploit innuendo.
Here's a little
factoid that we think holds
up really well: In general, the questions are softer when they deal with foreign affairs or military affairs than when they deal with domestic affairs; the forms of aggressiveness I've described are less common.
Last but not least, Universal's U-CONTROL feature offers three unique pop -
up video displays for each film: «Setups & Payoffs,» for those who never picked
up on stuff like the Twin Pines Mall / Lone Pine Mall gag — though often this track resorts to simple
factoids, as if bored; «Storyboard Picture - in - Picture Comparisons,» which is, I hope, self - explanatory; and a reconfiguring of the DVD's «Trivia Track.»
Garner's repeated attempts at realistic football - speak end
up sounding more like she's reading
factoids off the back of a Wheaties box.
The first is called «Filmmaker Annotations» it is a Picture - in - Picture experience with crew interviews, featurettes, additional clips, pop -
up trivia and
factoids.
This year's nominees are the source of the kind of fun
factoids and useless trivia movie mavens gobble
up like so much artificially flavored popcorn.
Cool Brain
Factoids The brain is made
up of five main parts: the brain stem, pituitary gland, hypothalamus, cerebellum, and the cerebrum...
It has been interesting with all the different reader opinions and
factoids that have been brought
up and offered.
Speaking of World of Tanks, here's an interesting
factoid: Paradox Interactive passed
up on publishing the megahit title in the past, citing a lack of money at the time and an uncertainty over the business model.
Buckle
up, because this is one of our most
factoid - heavy episodes (and also the Reverend's drunkest episode) yet.
If you want to bone
up on some forgotten Mario
factoids, read Unknown Mario - 30 obscure facts and random trivia about Nintendo's mascot.
Molyneux admitted he's pulled more than one videogame
factoid out of his ass to keep press junkets interesting, adding, «I could name at least 10 features in games that I've made
up to stop journalists going to sleep and I really apologize to the team for that.»
The IPCC, Mann, NASA, Hansen, Algore et al have been throwing faked data and phony
factoids around for 20 years, while the earth goes on its way without warming
up.
Yours: «The problem today is that the Internet and news are CONSISTENTLY exposing us to a biased subset of these facts [in my terms,
factoids] AND using them to whip
up public indignation.»
May is asking us to respect
factoids and unrepresentative evidence dressed
up as fact, yet he assures us that it is the oil companies that are «misinforming the public about the science of climate change».
Using paleoclimate as a grab bag of random, misunderstood
factoids to back
up wacky ideas about modern climate change is not a good policy.
Neither is a piling
up of facts and
factoids into heaps meant to impress, or make money, or satisfy an OCD.
Someone should tell Zuckerberg never to ruin an apology by following it
up with
factoids trying to diminish one's culpability.
The idea of doing research on the company prior to the interview isn't so you can rattle off
factoids you gleaned from their website or list their major competitors to prove you read
up a little on the industry.