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My mom didn’t want to make him quit for that season, so she just told me to take my shoes off and jump in there. Be a dummy. – Helen Maroulis	Found on CNN 1 year ago
General sentiment in the entire market across world is that Indian stock market days are OVER and soon all those involved as employees with any firms associated in any form with stock market will be unemployed as soon brokerage firms, AMCs and franchisees will be closed down their firms as prices falling every day by 5-10%. Investors are seeing 1 day rise dummy since 1 and half years. Huge unemployment all over in capital market – Lakshheish M Patel	added by laksheispatel 1 year ago
We don’t know, however, whether that live round came from that box, we’re assuming it did. We’re assuming somebody put that live round in that box, which, if you think about that, the person who put the live round in the box of dummy rounds had to have the purpose of sabotaging the set. There’s no other reason you would do that. That you would mix that live round with the dummy rounds. – Gutierrez Reed attorneys	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
A lot of times I do have dummy orange or bright pink guns, rehearsal guns, no mistake on that. – Syd Richardson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There was a box of dummy rounds and the box is labeled dummy. Hannah did take from that box which she by all accounts should have been able to rely on, that contains only dummy rounds, she loaded rounds from that box into the handgun only to later find out -- and she had no idea -- she inspected the rounds, that there was a live round. Now we don't know, however, whether that live round came from that box. We're assuming it did. We're assuming somebody put the live round in that box, which if you think about that, the person who put the live round in the box of dummy rounds had to have the purpose of sabotaging this set. There's no other reason you would do that. – Gutierrez Reed	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We know a couple of facts. We know there was a live round in a box of dummy rounds that shouldn’t have been there. At least one round. We have people who walked off set because they were disgruntled. We have a timeline of approximately 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. that day in which the firearms at that time were unattended, so there was opportunity to tamper with this scene and yes, we’re looking at that possibility. – Jason Bowles	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The Council considers that the cartoon uses exaggeration and absurdity to make its point, but accepts the publisher's claim that it does not depict Ms. Williams as an ape, rather showing her as 'spitting the dummy'. – The Australian	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Hey dummy, this floozy your latest thing? You can do better than her, cause I’ve seen better legs on Sonny Liston. – Don Rickles	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I feel like such a dummy, only Scully could lose a ring while putting meat in a bag. – Vin Scully	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The Egyptians had a particularly nasty way of getting rid of people they felt had no consequence. Instead of embalming them, they simply constructed a fake mummy made from old strips of linen wrapped around a dummy of mud. If, in our modern world, you feel that there are a lot of “mud mummies” around you, get rid of the mud. – Perry Brass	added by JP03 9 years ago

My mom didn’t want to make him quit for that season, so she just told me to take my shoes off and jump in there. Be a dummy.

– Helen Maroulis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

General sentiment in the entire market across world is that Indian stock market days are OVER and soon all those involved as employees with any firms associated in any form with stock market will be unemployed as soon brokerage firms, AMCs and franchisees will be closed down their firms as prices falling every day by 5-10%. Investors are seeing 1 day rise dummy since 1 and half years. Huge unemployment all over in capital market

– Lakshheish M Patel

added by laksheispatel
1 year ago

We don’t know, however, whether that live round came from that box, we’re assuming it did. We’re assuming somebody put that live round in that box, which, if you think about that, the person who put the live round in the box of dummy rounds had to have the purpose of sabotaging the set. There’s no other reason you would do that. That you would mix that live round with the dummy rounds.

– Gutierrez Reed attorneys

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A lot of times I do have dummy orange or bright pink guns, rehearsal guns, no mistake on that.

– Syd Richardson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There was a box of dummy rounds and the box is labeled dummy. Hannah did take from that box which she by all accounts should have been able to rely on, that contains only dummy rounds, she loaded rounds from that box into the handgun only to later find out -- and she had no idea -- she inspected the rounds, that there was a live round. Now we don't know, however, whether that live round came from that box. We're assuming it did. We're assuming somebody put the live round in that box, which if you think about that, the person who put the live round in the box of dummy rounds had to have the purpose of sabotaging this set. There's no other reason you would do that.

– Gutierrez Reed

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We know a couple of facts. We know there was a live round in a box of dummy rounds that shouldn’t have been there. At least one round. We have people who walked off set because they were disgruntled. We have a timeline of approximately 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. that day in which the firearms at that time were unattended, so there was opportunity to tamper with this scene and yes, we’re looking at that possibility.

– Jason Bowles

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The Council considers that the cartoon uses exaggeration and absurdity to make its point, but accepts the publisher's claim that it does not depict Ms. Williams as an ape, rather showing her as 'spitting the dummy'.

– The Australian

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Hey dummy, this floozy your latest thing? You can do better than her, cause I’ve seen better legs on Sonny Liston.

– Don Rickles

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I feel like such a dummy, only Scully could lose a ring while putting meat in a bag.

– Vin Scully

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The Egyptians had a particularly nasty way of getting rid of people they felt had no consequence. Instead of embalming them, they simply constructed a fake mummy made from old strips of linen wrapped around a dummy of mud. If, in our modern world, you feel that there are a lot of “mud mummies” around you, get rid of the mud.

– Perry Brass

added by JP03
9 years ago

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