The new eco-friendly bath bomb is available now on Lush's website, but we'd recommend ordering one ASAP, because these slime-y fizzers tend to sell out quick.
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Many have identified good market niches or founded startups before they're even out of grade school, like sisters Caroline and Isabel Bercaw, who founded a bath bomb company, DaBomb Fizzers, before they were even teens, and 15-year-old Mo Bridges, who runs his own bow-tie company, Mo's Bow Ties.
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Fizzers is a Scottish slang word for “faces”, a corruption of the French visage. It is the registered trademark used by the Scottish Cartoon Art Studio for a variety of projects featuring their caricature artwork. Fizzers pieces are not executed in the traditional, satirical mode of British caricature epitomised by Gerald Scarfe, but are inspired by the works of European artists such as Sebastian Krüger and Patrice Ricord. In April 2006, Mercat Press Ltd of Edinburgh published the first Fizzers book, subtitled Famous Scottish Faces Caricatured.
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Parma Violets are disc-shaped sweets similar to Fizzers but without their fizziness. Swizzels Matlow have also released a line of Giant Parma Violets.
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Fizzers are rolled-up tablet candies that fizz and dissolve when put into soda. They are similar to the American candy Smarties (called Rockets in Canada).
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The show featured work previously seen at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery as well as a dozen entirely new caricatures. In 2010 a gallery of Fizzers caricatures were installed as a permanent feature at The Chanter pub on Bread Street in Edinburgh. From 27 May 2016 to 26 March 2017 the People's Palace will exhibit over 120 selected works from the Fizzers collection to mark its tenth anniversary.
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Four of the caricatures where acquired as permanent additions to the gallery's collection in April 2007. These were caricatures of the late comedian Chic Murray, lead singer of Wet Wet Wet Marti Pellow, golf champion Sam Torrance and darts champion Jocky Wilson. Fizzers caricatures were shown at the Platform art space in Easterhouse from 11 March to 5 April 2009. Fizzers: Well Kent Scottish Faces at the People's Palace and Winter Gardens, Glasgow, ran from 18 July to 4 October 2009.
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The book featured a foreword by the Scottish stage and screen actor Brian Cox, and included over one hundred caricatures. Mercat Press was bought by Birlinn Ltd in 2007 and the Fizzers book went out of print in 2011 but is still available from online retailers. The first Fizzers exhibition, subtitled The Alternative Portrait Gallery, ran at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh from 7 April to 2 July 2006. The show featured over two hundred and fifty pieces and marked the first occasion on which the Gallery had displayed contemporary caricature work in such a manner.
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Although an all- rounder, Wills saw himself principally as a bowler. He varied his pace and style in order to quickly work out a batsman's weak points, his repertoire spanning "sparklers, rippers, fizzers, trimmers and shooters". Noted for his deceptive slow deliveries, dropping mid-flight and big on break, Wills' fast round arm balls sometimes reared head-high from the pitch, terrorising his opponent. English batsman Sir David Serjeant stated that Wills was the only bowler he ever feared.
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The club gives two explanations of its unusual nickname of the Fizzers, and it is unclear if the two are related. One explanation states that it derives from a Friendly Insurance Society (F.I.S.) set up in Sandhurst in 1933.Club website The club alternatively state that the nickname originates from their supporters standing behind an opposing team's goal and shouting "Fizz Fizz Bang" when the ball went into the net, although no explanation is given for why they would do so.
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Since then, several managers have managed the club with differing degrees of success. The current manager is Dean Thomas, who took over from Jon Underwood in October 2010. Upon finishing 7th in the 2010/11 league season, the Fizzers went on to beat Wembley F.C. 1–0 at Farnborough Town Football Stadium on 6 May 2011 in the EL Records Premier Challenge Cup. This was the first time Sandhurst had won this honour and did so without conceding a single goal throughout the tournament – due to a solid back four defence.
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Parma Violets (small size) Parma Violets are a British violet-flavoured tablet confectionery manufactured by the Derbyshire company Swizzels Matlow,Love Hearts maker Swizzels Matlow keeps clients sweet, Teena Lyons, Times online, 25 May 2008, accessed 3 May 2009 named after the Parma violet variety of the flower. The sweets are hard, biconcave disc-shaped sweets, similar to the Fizzers product from the same company but without their fizziness. Swizzels Matlow have also released a line of Giant Parma Violets. Ingredients include sugar, stearic acid, modified starch, glucose syrup, and anthocyanin.
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Smash Hits album reviews, November 1986 Number One magazine was impressed by the adult rock sound of many of the tracks, but feared that the album wouldn't stand up to repeated listenings. Nevertheless, they gave the album a 4 out of 5 rating, commenting that "Writing On the Wall sees the Fizzers moving ever further away from their light pop of old, [giving] a fair impression of American AOR rockers – in the most melodic way possible of course".Karen Swayne. Number One Magazine album reviews, November 1986 The newly established Q Magazine rated the album 3 out of 5 and favoured the tracks "Keep Each Other Warm" and "The Company You Keep".
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