Sentences with phrase «obituaries out of the newspaper»

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Every stand - up TV comedian has used the obit gag, the one where you don't get out of bed until you're sure your name isn't on the newspaper obituary page.

Sometimes I worry that Arsenal have cribbed their transfer policy from an old Tom Vu infomercial about targeting «distressed properties»... scan the obituaries in newspapers to learn about homes of recently deceased and low - ball the grieving families, or find out about recent divorces and take advantage of the acrimony and get a good price on a house you can then flip for profit.

After a newspaper's premature obituary dubbed him «the merchant of death,» the inventor of dynamite set out to improve his reputation by establishing prizes in peace, literature and the sciences.