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"Maybe my wife will go, 'That's naff,'" he added, deadpan.

"Oh, Americans have to start using the word 'naff,' " she says.

"They have a lot of generals and naff-all army," he says.

Those tastes were always what the Brits call "naff"—lame, tacky, uncool.

I wouldn't have been so naff as to make this sort of thing up.

Aren't they a bit corny, I suggest, a bit naff; maybe even a smidge smug?

Other terms such as "naff" (bad), "bevvy" (drink), and "camp" (effeminate) continue to be used colloquially.

" The Blade's editor Kevin Naff in a statement to The Hill said the outlet "stands behind its reporting.

One of the most valuable, yet unexpected things Naff got out of business school was learning about herself.

You could go down the handmade route, but this takes a lot of skill to avoid producing something naff.

In fact, when Naff applied to executive MBA programs, USC's Marshall School of Business was the only one on her list.

"I expect the feeling at Kensington Palace is that it's rather naff to sell cheap copies of Diana's engagement ring," the source said.

Carter offered Naff great opportunities, such as a meeting with Manchester United's staff and consulting on a project for the NFL Players Association.

It's a concept that could be sort of naff in the wrong hands, but in King's hands it's a suspenseful and lightning-fast page-turner.

" Naff also said "we know what he means" when Smith brought up orphanages in answering "a direct question about adoption rights for same-sex couples.

It's a naff reference and tacky but I really think I could defend the merits of this little movement because I think it's really fascinating.

There's nothing wrong with Erasure's typically naff take on the ABBA tune, per se, but there's nothing about it that'd actually make you want to dance.

"My goal in the past was to be the CMO of the 49ers, and now I think that's too small," Naff said about her future plans.

"Take advantage of being a student" because people are more likely to respond to informational interview requests from that position, Naff advised to prospective MBA candidates.

The idea of 'local radio' has, thanks primarily to Alan Partridge, always seemed a bit naff, a bit tinpot, a bit, well, local. Smalltime. Parochial. Provincial.

"I know describing something as a 'musical journey' is pretty naff but I feel it applies here, at least to some degree," says vocalist/guitarist Jock Norton.

And it is that residual, permanent, unfuckwithable sense of cool that makes her such an appealing an enduring figure—a non-ironic, non-naff, non-Barbara Windsor national treasure.

" Naff said students came away from the assembly with the "clear impression that Smith opposes adoption rights for gay couples and thinks orphanages are a better option for children.

His outfit suggests that he's been at some kind of event where the evening's fun stems from the shared sense of irony that comes from wearing naff shirts and deck shoes.

Forget about Kate Bush: Andrea Arnold's gritty adaptation of the Emily Bronte classic injects a strong vein of social awareness into the work, while ignoring the naff nonsense that's defined previous versions.

The kind of drum and bass that has really naff saxophones on it—the kind that always makes me think of bad record shops and people who are really into watching Spaced.

Now is the time to get a better handle on what passes for ace (awesome) or naff (unfashionable) in British culture thanks to some new additions to the popular mobile game Words With Friends.

In fairness, there is a good degree of hindsight involved in declaring his haircuts 'naff', with high street barbers across the country inundated with requests for Becks' latest look around the turn of the millennium.

While Naff had studied marketing in college and already worked for Fox Sports, NBC, and the Oakland Raiders, she's always had her eye on joining the C-suite and knew an MBA could help her get there.

These are knowingly naff, archly chintzy ornaments, that might not pertain to the kind of permanence and classicism that the Felt records are both soaked in and radiate, but are still worthy additions to Lawrence's bulging back catalog.

And the good old-fashioned boozers are often grim places—sticky carpets, expensive drinks, naff music—that are unable to compete in an age when people's homes are nicer than in the past and alternative leisure pursuits more plentiful.

"All Is True" makes a serious attempt to consider Shakespeare as a husband and a father as well as a famous playwright, but is let down by its naff dialogue and melodramatic tone (he expires after a bout of loud coughing).

He had the requisite good looks, shy affability and clean-cut image to appeal to advertisers from the very start, but he also had a series of naff haircuts and mannerisms which were something of a gift to uninspired television impressionists.

Talk to them about the prospect of a franchise and the reaction – much like a kid at Christmas who's given an expensive but naff gift by an overly proud aunt or uncle – is often a forced smile to mask awkwardness.

There's always been a shallow or naff thing about life after dark I mean, there's always been terrible novelty songs and commercial cringey stuff in the charts but that hasn't stopped other musicians from rebelling against the mainstream and making great music, underground music or whatever.

It's so interesting hearing about the history of the building and the people who worked and performed here, including Lula C. Naff who was the legendary general manager for more than 40 years, as well as seeing all the exhibits, such as one of BB King's guitars, Hank Williams' handwritten lyrics for "Your Cheatin' Heart," and a cowboy hat worn by Patsy Cline.

Okay, all gnomes are naff, and mooning ones naffer than most.

The phrase "naff off" was used euphemistically in place of "fuck off" along with the intensifier "naffing" in Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse (1959). p35 "Naff off, Stamp, for Christ sake!" p46 "Well which one of them's got the naffing engagement ring?" Usage of "naff" increased in the 1970s when the television sitcom Porridge employed it as an alternative to expletives which were not considered broadcastable at the time. Princess Anne famously told a reporter, "Why don't you just naff off" at the Badminton horse trials in April 1982.

Alixa Naff (September 15, 1919 – June 1, 2013) was a Lebanese-born American historian. She focused much of her research on the first wave of Arab American immigration to the United States at the turn of the 20th Century. Alixa Naff was born to Faris and Yamna Naff in Rashaya al-Wadi, a village located in present-day Lebanon within the Anti-Lebanon mountains. Her family immigrated to the United States in 1921.

Petty Naff was a target for Know-Nothing rivals as he led the New Market Fire Company. Naff was notorious in Baltimore for his history of conflict with the police, involvement in riots, assault charges, and his alleged connection to the murder of two men.

The script allowed the prisoners to swear without offending viewers by using the word "naff" in place of ruder words ("Naff off!", "Darn your own naffing socks", "Doing next to naff all"), thereby popularising a word that had been virtually unknown and the first recorded use of which was in 1966.naff. a, Oxford English Dictionary, Draft Revision June 2003 Ronnie Barker did not claim to have invented it and in a television interview in 2003 it was explained to him on camera what the word meant, as he hadn't a clue. A genuine neologism was "nerk", which was used in place of the more offensive "berk".

Alixa Naff died from a short illness at her home in Mitchellville, Maryland, on June 1, 2013, at the age of 93.

Director John Cairns has been living in Japan for over a decade. The film was developed during the 2010 NAFF IT Project.

Sounds felt the "production may be naff in parts", believing the "magnificent mugginess" of Doremi Fasol Latido more suited to the band's sound.

St. Olaf College arranged for NAFF players to visit the Minnesota Vikings training camp and to socialize with the professional players of American football.

This first wave of mostly Christian immigrants was the first major emigration from the Middle East to the U.S. Naff donated her collection of artifacts and oral histories from early Arab immigrants to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. Naff had driven throughout the nation to collect oral histories and family heirlooms for the collection. She amassed more than 450 oral histories, 2,000 photographs, and more than 500 artifacts. The personal and household objects included kibbe pounder, Middle Eastern musical instruments, and clothing. The Faris and Yamna Naff Collection, which was named in honor of her parents, is available for research through the National Museum of American History.

Comprised of naff songs, naffer dance routines and 'humour' that shames an episode of Kids Say The Funniest Things, here's a seasonal turkey of the first order.

An article of the game appeared in the Norway's second largest newspaper Dagbladet, on January 28, 1985. In Stockholm, Sweden, again, for the first Scandinavian Cup in American football, to be played by Sweden, Finland' and Norway, NAFF became the champion. An article on the Cup appeared in SAGA', Norway's English-language newspaper, on September 19, 1985. Challenging the Coventry Bears American Football Club in England, on May 9, 1986, NAFF became victorious.

In his book Naff Motors: 101 Automotive Lemons, Tony Davis described the build quality as "woeful". Top Gear writer Richard Porter included it in his book Crap Cars, calling it "dismal".

The Freedom Association was founded in 1975 as the National Association for Freedom (NAFF) by the Viscount De L'Isle, Norris McWhirter, Ross McWhirter and John Gouriet. Ross McWhirter had drawn up a fifteen-point Charter of Rights and Liberties before being murdered by the Provisional IRA in November 1975. NAFF was renamed The Freedom Association in late 1978. Andrew Gamble reported shortly after that the renaming was undertaken in order to avoid confusion with the similar National Front.

The 010 Trojans (formerly known as Rotterdam Trojans are an American football team based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Founded in 1984, the Trojans are the second oldest surviving team in the Netherlands, behind the Amsterdam Crusaders. Upon foundation, the Trojans immediately joined the national American Football body at the time, the NAFF (Nederlandse American Football Federatie). After beginning in the second tier (NAFF Division One), the Trojans managed an undefeated championship season (12-0) in 1988 and gained promotion to the Premier Division.

The AFBN (American Football Bond Nederland) is the governing body for American Football in the Netherlands. The AFBN was founded in 2001 after the merger of the rival leagues Nederlandse American Football Federatie (NAFF) and American Football League Nederland (AFLN).

This will increase the filtering capacity and reliability of the current pumps within the plant. As said by Jeff Naff, the vice president of water treatment projects "These improvements will provide the city with the most footprint-effective solution for processing water".

D-Naff is married to Dainess Ziba, originally from Chingola Zambia who is also a Gospel artist and his back-up singer and they have a son Prince Ethan Amukwelele and a daughter Princess Ethana Amukwelele. The two travel together on his tours.

In 1997, four teams from the NAFF broke away and formed their own organization and league under the name American Football League Nederland (AFLN). The AFLN ran from 1998 until the creation of the AFBN in 2001, with the Rotterdam Trojans winning the first AFLN championship.

Koningferander had been introduced to the sport by his gymnastics teacher Guus Annokkee who would go on to be the founder and inaugural chairman of the NAFF (Nederlandse American Football Federatie). Koningferander's TV plea instigated the founding of the Netherlands' first domestic club: the Amsterdam Rams.

Lycia Naff (born August 29, 1962) is an American dancer, actress, and journalist. She is best known as an actress for a two-episode role as Ensign Sonya Gomez on Star Trek: The Next Generation and for an appearance as a three-breasted prostitute in Total Recall.

Stuart Heritage of The Guardian said that "It's like watching a weird piece of existential Lithuanian amateur community theatre [...] It's the worst idea in the world, stretched out for all eternity". The Daily Telegraphs Ed Power described it as "naff, tacky and numbingly dull" and "mind-bendingly outlandish".

The episode featured the third appearance of de Lancie as Q after "Encounter at Farpoint" and "Hide and Q", the latter of which had been written by Hurley under a pseudonym. Lycia Naff was introduced as the overeager young ensign, Sonia Gomez, who was intended to be a recurring character in the same manner as Chief Miles O'Brien played by Colm Meaney (who also appeared in this episode). However, Naff made just one more appearance as Gomez, in the following episode, although the character later appeared in the Starfleet Corps of Engineers series of novellas. "Q Who" went $50,000 over budget and at one point had an eighth day of shooting arranged, although this was subsequently cancelled.

A production starring Stephen Gately, "with cartoon cut-out sets and props and naff panto choreography", previewed in Oxford in December 2002, before moving to Liverpool over Christmas 2002. This production reached the West End at the New London Theatre in March 2003.Shenton, Mark. "Review: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, 2003" , whatsonstage.

The Amsterdam Rams achieved a respectable 3rd place in the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam, with the Finnish Taft Vantaa claiming 1st place. 1987 saw the NAFF run a full Dutch competition with no less than 3 divisions. This season also saw the debut of Dutch officiating crews, supported by officials from the US airbase in Soesterberg.

When it was sold to America, this wonderful old > showman Sam Arkoff of AIP bought it and they released it as Blood on Satan's > Claw. Tony Tenser then changed the title and I thought that was a bit infra- > dig, a bit naff. So I think Satan's Skin was my favourite. The movie was a commercial disappointment.

Nadira Ilana is a Malaysian writer, filmmaker, and activist from Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. She is an advocate for better and more inclusive cultural representation of Borneo-Malaysians in the national narrative. Nadira is an alumnus of the Berlinale Talent Campus, BIFAN NAFF Fantastic Film School, Singapore International Film Festival's SEA Film Lab and the Luang Prabang International Film Fest's Talent Lab.

He practiced as a replacement player with the Houston Oilers during the 1987 NFL strike. In 1995 he spent a season in Stavanger, Norway, as a player for the Sandnes Oilers in the Norwegian American Football Federation (NAFF) and has also played in the Arena Football League for the Washington Commandos. He became an insurance broker and entrepreneur after his football career.

He started his music career back in the early 90s while still a student at "Jan Jonker Afrikaner Secondary School" in Windhoek Namibia, under a group called the "Glamour Boys" which was an acappella group whose five members were all part of the National Youth Choir of Namibia, under the leadership of Conductor Mr Erenst Von Biljon. The group toured France in 1998, during the soccer world cup under the sponsorship of the Franco-Namibian Cultural Center FNCC. After giving his life to Jesus, D-Naff went on to establish a Gospel hip-hop group called Eagles in Flight which later became Heaven's Dialect. After the exodus of the Group's producer to U.S.A., the group disbanded and D-Naff went on to establish another group called "Eagle's Mentality" which became the winner of the 2005 "Best Gospel" at the Sanlam-NBC Music Awards.

61 SFX magazine included her first death in a 2012 list of the top 21 "Naff Sci-Fi Deaths", while the Chicago Sun-Times described her death in "Yesterday's Enterprise" as a "hero's death". In 2017, IndieWire ranked Tasha as the 15th best character on Star Trek: The Next Generation. In 2017, Screen Rant ranked Tasha Yar the 16th most attractive person in the Star Trek universe.

Stewart recalled seeing a white guy "trying to be cool and he looked so naff" walking into a group of Afro- Caribbeans and being reprimanded, which became the lyric "Don't you walk through my words, you got to show some respect." Another lyric came from a conversation Gouldman had with a Jamaican, who when asked if he liked cricket replied, "No, I love it!".

He appealed for help, saying that failure to pay "will spell the end of NAFF and probably any organised resistance to the advance of communo-socialism in Britain" as well as his own personal bankruptcy."£90,857 costs face Gouriet group with extinction", The Times, 18 February 1978, p. 3. On 16 March Gouriet was able to announce that more than £90,000 had been raised.

After 1998, the sport began to grow again with more teams springing up in the Netherlands. In 2001 the NAFF and AFLN organizations agreed to merge under the name American Football Bond Nederland (AFBN). This made it possible to organize different levels of play and three divisions were created. In 2005 this was reduced to the current format of two divisions with a third developmental tier.

They arrived in Spring Valley, Illinois on January 1, 1922, and lived there until moving to Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1929. They moved to Detroit, Michigan in June 1931, where her father worked in the grocery industry. She resided in Falls Church, Virginia, for many years before moving to Mitchellville, Maryland. Naff documented Arab immigration to the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The NME however, called "Smokin'" "sludgy" and suggested that it was Outspaced "fairly naff nadir". Stylus Magazine named Ice Hockey Hair in a list of "Ten essential singles/EPs" released by Creation Records in a 2003 article about the label. "Ice Hockey Hair" was included in The Pitchfork 500, a list of the greatest songs released from 1977 to 2006, published by Pitchfork Media in 2008.

The single's B-side, an early version of the A-side, was titled "The B-Side", extending the football theme of the release. It was produced by former Swans member Roli Mosimann. Besides a different arrangement and some different lyrics, this version lacks the commentary samples and squad vocals, with Keith Allen's "naff football chants and JB impersonation" (as credited on the sleeve) in their place.

The Last Bell by Alpha Naff, Northeast Washington Genealogical Society 2005, A small town alongside State Route 395, Addy was not tracked by the 2000 U.S. Census, but in the 2010 census the population was 265. The town has one gas station, and a coffee shop. There is one restaurant in town, although several other businesses cater to the primarily agricultural local economy. Addy is assigned the ZIP code 99101.

"Samaritan Snare" was written by Robert L. McCullough from an outside pitch. McCullough would go on to become a producer during the final few seasons of the series. Executive producer Maurice Hurley was pleased with the episode, because it highlighted La Forge and he enjoyed working with Burton. This was the second and final episode featuring Lycia Naff as Ensign Sonya Gomez, following her appearance in the previous episode, "Q Who".

From these flames a number of Dutch clubs emerged including The Hague Raiders, Delft Dragons, Rotterdam Trojans, Zwolle Bulldogs, Alphen Eagles and Utrecht Vikings. Toward the end of 1984 a number of players from the Amsterdam Rams broke off to form a second team from the nation's capital city: the Amsterdam Crusaders. The Rams returned to the Netherlands and, along with the new teams, formed the Nederlandse American Football Federatie (NAFF).

The Bulletin of Burma Historical Research Commission 3, 1963. The new governor of Bengal, Shayista Khan, attacked and took back the Arakan's Chittagong, Ramu, East Bangal, Sandwip, Dianga and up to the Naff river was annexed to Bengal. After the death of King Sandathudamma in 1684 A.D. the Muslim Kamans (the Royal Archers of the Guard) became very powerful and became the "King Makers" of the Arakan thrones.

The new line-up gelled quickly, dropped most of the old songs when they played live, and secured a new record deal with Phonogram, but the resulting album Nightlife was a disappointment for the band due to its soft production and underdeveloped style. Robertson described Ron Nevison's production as "pretty naff" and Gorham said the record was "ridiculously tame". Like the previous three albums, it failed to chart.

The Naff House is a historic house at the northwest corner of 3rd Avenue and Fir Street in Portland, Arkansas. The Prairie Style brick house was built c. 1919, and is one of the few such houses in Ashley County. It was designed and built by Russell and W.H. Gard, two brothers who built a number of other residences in Portland (although none were Prairie Style, and few survive).

Following the nomination, Holsinger's views on homosexuality came under scrutiny, and several Democratic senators expressed concern or opposition to the nomination. In addition, individuals released statements supporting or opposing the nomination. Kevin Naff, editor of the LGBT newspaper, the Washington Blade, charged that Holsinger has a "long record of anti-gay bias." Paul Weyrich, the conservative commentator, said opposition to Holsinger's nomination amounted to an assault on religious freedom.

509 (May 1909).Naff, Aaron J., Seattle's Luna Park (Arcadia 2011) , at page 45. By 1917, Falcon was facing competition from a municipal street car line constructed by the city of Seattle as well as a new brick-paved highway built by King County, Washington along and parallel to the coast of Puget Sound, so much so that in March 1918, the future of Alki Point Transportation Co. appeared "precarious".

Thomas Naff, "Reform and the Conduct of Ottoman Diplomacy in the Reign of Selim III, 1789-1807." Journal of the American Oriental Society 83.3 (1963): 295-315 online. In July 1798, however, French forces under Napoleon landed in Egypt, and Selim declared war on France. In alliance with Russia and Britain, the Turks were in periodic conflict with the French on both land and sea until March 1801.

Like with his book counterpart, the only word he says is "I dunno" but however in the Series 1 TV episode Horrid Henry Gets Rich Quick, he says "Have you got any food?" and in the Series 4 episode Horrid Henry Who's Who?, after switching personalities with Brainy Brian, who is proven to be pretty naff at violin and never plays it when told to. He gives his answers in full sentences.

His father died in 1998 while D-Naff was in France at the world cup performing for the world cup with his first musical group The Glamour Boys.He matriculated at Augustineum Secondary School and went on to enroll at the college of the arts under the mentor ship of the talented Ernst Von Biljorn. He is currently serving as a Senior Immigration officer in the Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration's head office Windhoek, Namibia.

2 Know-Nothings died in the crossfire. Historian Tracy Matthew Melton argues that the widespread riots of the day signified the deadliest outburst of violence in Baltimore history at that point. The partisans involved were overwhelmingly well-known fighting men with deep connections to the street violence of the fire companies. During the fighting at Lexington Market, Rip Raps specifically targeted the tavern owned by Petty Naff, the New Market's most notorious rowdy.

IGN's Mark Snow gave the episode a rating of 8.3 out of 10. Snow praised the reintroduction of the Ice Warriors and called Skaldak "the show's most memorable villain in a while, thanks to his stern, occasionally psychopathic approach to problem solving, and an environment that helped make the bulky, heavy creature design imposing rather than laughably naff." However, he felt that some of Skaldak's effects were "laughably rubbery" and that his motivations were "psychotically random." Tor.

Friends, family, and professors established a Janet Lee Stevens Memorial Fund at the University of Pennsylvania. The fund intended to honor Stevens’s legacy of fostering cultural understanding vis-à-vis the Arab world. Professor Thomas Naff originally administered the award, following a nomination procedure which awarded an individual outside the university a $1000 prize for promoting Arab-American understanding. The first winner of this award, in 1986, was Gail Pressberg of the American Friends Service Committee.

Born in Harlesden to a Jamaican father and Dominican mother, he dealt with numerous problems; including homelessness after leaving school.Jeffries, David "Gappy Ranks Biography", Allmusic. Retrieved 22 December 2014 Once he overcame these issues, he joined up with childhood friend and fellow artist Redmann (UK), and was enlisted into the UK dancehall collective Suncycle, along with local artists such as Cash Money, Lady Chann and Naff Skrilla. Their first album titled Suncyle included Ranks' homage to his hometown, "Harlesden".

Hare elaborated: "[We] constructively criticise what comes out, gradually getting rid of the naff ideas and keeping any good stuff. We change it again and again and again until we get what we want." A point of pride was the realistic behaviour of the homing missile code, while the rural setting of some of the levels was inspired by Emmerdale Farm. Earlier works- in-progress employed larger numbers of icons than would be featured in the final version.

However, this step proved too much for the Trojans who were immediately relegated. After a divisional reorganisation the Trojans moved back to the highest division, where they remain to this day. National Tulip Bowl titles were won in 1996 and 1997. Outside the NAFF, the Rotterdam Trojans also competed in the Eurobowl competitions in 1995 (losing in the first round to Birmingham Bulls) and reached the Eurobowl B final in 1996, losing 7-0 in the final to St. Gallen Seaside Vipers.

The Norwegians tasted football defeat for the first time when St. Olaf College from Minnesota was invited to Oslo during 1986, and the final score was 65–0. The football players from Norway traveled to Minnesota to play St. Olaf College again. NAFF lost again 65–0, the college boys intentionally decided not to run up the score on their visitors. An article of the game appeared in the local newspaper called The News, Northfield, Minnesota, on July 21, 1988.

Entitled The Soul Of Nashville, the film features an actress portraying Naff in a presentation of the history of the Ryman. It contains an original song performed by Darius Rucker, Sheryl Crow, Vince Gill, and the Fisk Jubilee Singers. Opry Entertainment Group stages weekly shows at the Ryman year-round. In addition to the Opry at the Ryman shows in the winter, the auditorium hosts Opry Country Classics each spring and autumn and Bluegrass Nights at the Ryman each summer.

The Secretary of State for Education and Science filed suit to force the local authority in Tameside to adopt a system of comprehensive education. The NAFF paid full legal costs for six parents of children at state schools there who intervened in the case."McWhirter group aids Tameside parents", The Times, 13 August 1976, p. 2. Opposition to communism was one of the Association's key points, and for his work Gouriet was awarded the Polish Gold Cross of Merit by the Polish government-in-exile in London.

William E. Naff (1929–2005) was an American scholar of Japanese language and literature. He was born on February 14, 1929 in Wenatchee, Washington State, and served with the US Air Force from 1946-1949. He received a BA degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Washington, and subsequently earned an MA in Japanese history and a Ph.D. in Japanese literature from the same university. In 1969 he became founding chairman of the department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

The show used "pseudo-profanity". Like the later show Porridge, its characters would be expected to swear frequently, but at the time most swear words were forbidden in scripts, especially sitcoms. The characters frequently used the word "piggin'" and the phrase "bog off", as an all purpose substitute for swearing, just as characters in Porridge used the word "naff". There was almost more controversy over this than over actual swearing, with accusations of cowardice on the one hand, and complaints about the "made up" swear words on the other.

The Freedom Association (TFA) is a pressure group in the United Kingdom that describes itself as non-partisan, centre-right and libertarian, which has links to the Conservative Party and UK Independence Party (UKIP). TFA was founded in 1975 as the National Association for Freedom (NAFF) and gained public prominence through its anti-trade union campaigns. Its popularity grew after campaigning against perceived abuses to individual freedom including big business, big government, organised labour and Irish terrorist activities. By the end of the 1970s the organisation had around 20,000 members.

After four years – and several reports of upholstery damage caused by its rowdy crowds – the Opry was asked to leave War Memorial and sought a new home yet again. Thanks to its wooden pews and central location, Naff and other Ryman leaders thought the auditorium would be a perfect venue for such an audience and began renting the venue to WSM for its shows. The Grand Ole Opry was first broadcast from the Ryman on June 5, 1943, and originated there every week for nearly 31 years thereafter.

", while noting that a DeLorean was significantly more expensive than a 1981 Chevrolet Corvette. In his book Naff Motors: 101 Automotive Lemons, Tony Davis described the build quality as "woeful". Top Gear writer Richard Porter included it in his book Crap Cars, calling it "dismal", while it was also included on Time magazine's list of the 50 worst cars of all time; Dan Neil said of it, "By the time Johnny Z. got the factory in Northern Ireland up and running — and what could possibly go wrong there? — the losses were piling up fast.

They are to approach their Presidents, political leaders, business communities and the entire nation to join the Kora movement.(See Kora website). His duties as National Youth Council of Namibia Ambassador include: addressing the Namibian youth countrywide on matters facing them, being the spokesperson for them, motivating and inspiring them to be the best they can be and to live a life full of meaning. D-Naff was also a member of a Choral group called Cantare Audire, under the leadership of Mr. Ernst von Biljon at the college of the Arts.

The Toy Show jumper attracts as much attention as the show itself, with viewers sending in their own versions to RTÉ ahead of the night in the hope that the presenter might wear them. Gay Byrne habitually wore a Christmas jumper each year he also wore the jumper for People In Need Telethon, but Pat Kenny tended to wear a "naff" grey jumper when he was host. Ryan Tubridy also spoke in favour of the jumper when he took the helm. Byrne was noted for his "Bing Crosby sweater".

After senior high school, Aristo studied journalism at Padjadjaran University in Bandung, from which he graduated in 1999. While in university, he stayed active in the indie music scene with his band Silentium. After graduation he worked in journalism for a while before drifting to filmmaking upon the suggestion of Dedi Rakswaradana, later guitarist for the band Naff. Several months later, after moving back to Jakarta Aristo's first screenplay, a 90-page work titled Tak Pernah Kembali Sama (Never Been the Same Again), was read by director Rudy Soedjarwo.

Unlike the earlier releases, the Saturn version received resoundingly negative reviews. The four reviewers of Electronic Gaming Monthly praised the storyline, full motion video, and lengthy content, but said the gameplay is repetitive and frustrating, since the limited controls make it unfairly difficult to avoid taking hits. Sega Saturn Magazines Rob Bright agreed that though each level has different objectives, the gameplay nonetheless boils down to repetitive wandering and simplistic firefights. He also argued that the storyline is simplistic, and the full motion video sequences which deliver it are "hugely naff".

CadZZilla attracted considerable attention. Hot Rods Gray Baskerville called CadZZilla "the most incredible transformation he'd ever witnessed", and in their "History of Hot Rods & Customs" the auto editors of Consumer Guide praised it as "the first really new type of custom since the heyday of the 1950s". Coddington's team, led by body man Craig Naff, started with a 1948 Cadillac Series 62 Sedanette, it went (as custom projects do) from mild, as originally proposed by Gibbons, to wild. The very first sketches were done on a bar napkin.

In 1998 the Trojans joined the breakaway AFLN (American Football League Nederland) and won two AFLN "National" championships. In addition, participation in the Dutch- Belgian Benelux League saw Rotterdam pick up two Benelux Bowl titles in 1999 and 2000 to add to their first (non-official) win in 1995. In 2001 the NAFF and AFLN put aside their differences to merge into the current organisational structure: the AFBN (American Football Bond Nederland). A large re-building operation over the last 6 years has seen Rotterdam have intermittent success, reaching the Tulip Bowl final in 2002 and the semi-finals several times.

By this time the Dutch competition was considered one of the strongest in the whole of Europe. In 1993, two Dutch teams made it to the semi-finals of the Eurobowl: The Amsterdam Crusaders and The Hague Raiders. The Amsterdam Crusaders (who had dominated the NAFF competition between 1987 and 1991) showed their class at European level by reaching 5 Eurobowl finals and winning the European championship in 1991 and 1992, sparking talk of a "Dutch dynasty". The Dutch National team, the Dutch Lions, won the bronze medal in the European Championships in Helsinki, Finland, in 1991.

Iza trains Ayla as a medicine woman "of her line", the most prestigious line of medicine women out of all of the Clans. It takes her much longer to train Ayla than it will her own daughter, Uba (Lycia Naff), since Ayla does not possess the memories of the Clan. Iza is concerned that when Ayla grows up nobody will want her as their mate, making her a burden to the Clan. So she trains Ayla to be a highly respected medicine woman who will have her own "status" and will not have to rely on the status of a mate.

In 2015, the Ryman underwent another renovation and expansion, in which much of the 1994 expansion was gutted and remodeled. The original building only received minor touch-ups and remained in use throughout the construction. The renovation and expansion includes more lobby space, plus expanded restrooms, concessions, and a gift shop, as well as a new quick-service restaurant called "Cafe Lula", named in memory of Lula C. Naff. Also added in the 2015 renovations was a 100-seat theater that houses a short holographic film that serves as the first exhibit on the building's daily self-guided tours.

If the game is very bulky to control, things stick when they hit walls and the collision detection is a bit naff, it's very annoying to play, no matter how addictive the gameplay might be. The whole thing should run very smoothly and be easy to pick up and move around.", and furthermore emphasises the importance of overall appearance, saying that "You can have an excellent game but if it looks really, really bad it's not going to sell because you've got a problem with screenshots. They're not going to attract anybody so no- one's going to buy the game.

Like the previous album, Are You Ready was produced by Andy Hill, who complimented the group on their ability to effortlessly adapt to the intricate harmonies and overlaying vocals on many of the tracks. For the cover of the album, the group employed a parachuting theme. The front depicts them wearing parachuting gear in an aeroplane; the gatefold sleeve opens out to show them flying through the air, while the back reveals a silhouette of them having landed. This was the idea of the art director, but the group themselves told him that they thought it was "very naff".

Both the Remain and Leave campaigns have released songs to promote their messages. Gruff Rhys for the Remain team entitles his song I love EU. For the Leave campaign, UKIP Parliamentary Candidate Mandy Boylett created a parody of the Three Lions anthem; David Baddiel, who penned the original Three Lions, described this version as "brilliantly naff". Guido Fawkes used Mandy Boylett's song as the backing track to his end of referendum summary, Guido's referendum best bits. On 13 June 2016 Mandy Boylett launched a follow up Brexit song, penning new words to Pink's Get the Party Started.

Though he said it was not perfect with "a saggy midsection and slightly naff CGI effects", he thought it was still "wondrous in so many ways". New York Times reviewer Mike Hale wrote that the episode worked like "a well-oiled piece of machinery", but it came across as "routine" with "none of the over-the-top exuberance" of Davies' run. While he noted that Gillan "looks promising", he felt that Smith was too much like Tennant and would "[need] to start shaping his own take on the role". Den of Geek selected the episode as Doctor Who highlight in their "Best TV Episodes of 2010" article.

Their first performance was at the annual Ongwediva Trade Fair in the northern town of Ongwediva. They landed under the management of Blend Productions and within weeks they were in demand, performing at various events, sharing the stage with established artists such as PDK, Gazza, The Dogg, Killa B, Max, D-naff, Gal level, Sunny Boy, Phura just to mention a few. They also wowed the crowds at Max's and PDK's CD launches, both at Bernie's Entertainment Park in Ongwediva. Their combination video for the singles "(Olye ekulonga) Okwiimba"; and "Lets get down to business" are receiving major air-play on Namibia's leading TV stations.

Reception to the first version of the song was negative. Michael Deacon writing in The Daily Telegraph called it naff and Alex Hardy in The Times, übernaff,The Times Playlist, 29 May 2010 while Pete Paphides writing for Times Online called it the pop equivalent of re-processed meat, suggesting it sounded like Rick Astley and Jason Donovan songs from over 20 years ago. In the days leading up to the contest, William Hill were offering 125-1 odds of the song winning, the longest odds ever for a UK entry. The song was revamped in light of the chosen singer and its initial reception.

The program has been criticized for its format and production values, including in an August 2009 episode of the UK topical show You Have Been Watching, with panelist David Mitchell saying "The thing that struck me most about it is quite how badly it is made, to the extent that you must think it's been made by anti- Christian people to make Christianity look as naff and discouraging and artless as possible." The series has been described as dogmatically evangelical. In 1998, sales made up less than one percent of the Christian children's video market. Three years later, sales climbed to eleven percent of that market.

Los Angeles Times critic Marc Weingarten found that the "abiding, uncynical" view of love expressed in Wainwright's lyrics does not come off as "mawkish" due to his considerable skills as a songwriter and arranger. NME reviewer John Mulvey called the album "floridly impersonal" and "grandiosely arranged", but also criticized Wainwright for being "too overwrought and naff". Greenwald complimented Martha's backing vocals on the song "In My Arms", as well as Parks' "positively sterling" string arrangement on "Millbrook". Furthermore, he praised the vocal duet between Rufus and Martha on "Sally Ann", claiming that a similar sibling performance had not been heard since The Everly Brothers.

Jaz of Mean Machines had low expectations for the Menacer, which he compared to the shortcomings of previous light guns: high price, short-lived novelty, and dearth of games. Gus of Mean Machines wrote that "Sega hasn't learned the lessons" from the Super Scope's "fairly naff" release in the magazine's January 1993 Menacer review, calling the light gun a "samey-looking, samey- playing piece of hardware, with some redundant add-ons" with mediocre launch titles. He added that the Menacer was less tiring to use than the Super Scope, praised the Menacer's infrared, and criticized the gun's lack of available software. Multiple reviewers found the pack-in six-game cartridge games subpar and repetitive.

ACAS were empowered by section 11 of the Employment Protection Act (EPA) to "ascertain the opinions of workers to whom the issue relates", but Grunwick, backed by NAFF, disputed that the strikers should be included, on the grounds that they had been dismissed and so were no longer "workers" of the company. John Stacey, Grunwick's personnel manager, said "The truth is that we do not care what their opinions are." In the meantime, the company awarded a 15% pay rise to non-striking workers on the understanding that they would not join the union. In response, UPW said it would consider resuming its boycott of Grunwick if the firm would not co- operate with ACAS.

To date he has won more than ten (13) awards including at the NAMAS.He is ranked number 15 most downloaded artist on iTunes in Africa and number two in his home country after the Dogg. D-Naff has been appointed as the (goodwill) Ambassador for the National Youth Council of Namibia (NYC).He has in 2014 been appointed Kora Awards goodwill Ambassador 2014/2015 to Namibia, in the fight against the Ebola virus, joining 53 other African artists and musicians who are also Kora Awards Ambassadors in their respective nations, and together they raise awareness on the Ebola virus and also to raise funds to be sent to the organizations dealing with the epidemic.

Richard MacFarlane of Mess+Noise felt "the sounds within are meticulous, and here craftsmanship does not equal engaging listening... because of a naff sort of 90s Britpop-esque that's so mixed to down to the middle that it's almost basking in its own solidness – a knowledge of lightweight rock conventions and how to pull no punches." MediaSearchs Chris Brady opined that "[it] is the sound of a band hinting at great potential. At their best, this Brisbane foursome successfully channel the spirit of sixties psychedelia, with Pepper- esque horns and soaring Pet Sounds harmonies." In that year they toured the East Coast of Australia three times and performed at the Adelaide Fuse Festival and BigSound conferences.

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, Americana received an average score of 80, indicating "generally favourable reviews", based on 19 critics. In his review for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine says, "What makes it last are the songs, which are wry, moving, and truthful, which wasn't always the case in his book". Classic Rock described the album as "a resounding success" with Davies "in terrific, matchless voice", while American Songwriter said it was a "first class offering ... and a worthy entry into Ray Davies’ rightfully esteemed catalog". A more negative review in The Guardian described the songs as "weedy" and "naff", likening the album to "an Alan Partridge-presented country happy hour".

Alex Fletcher of Digital Spy awarded "Live Your Life" two out of five stars saying, "While some will be charmed by T.I's well- meaning lyrics and Rihanna's hypnotic chorus hooks, others will find the mixture of samples and robotic effects grating. Our view? Well, hats off to Rihanna for finally taking time out from mining her Good Girl Gone Bad album, but it's a shame she had to waste her break on a naff novelty release like this." The American magazine The Village Voice voted "Live Your Life" at number 13 on their annual Pazz & Jop critics' poll; T.I.'s own "Whatever You Like" was voted at number 14 on the same poll.

During the 2008 U.S. presidential election, Senator John McCain's decision to participate in a written interview with the Blade marked the first time a Republican presidential nominee agreed to be interviewed by a gay publication. On November 16, 2009, the paper was abruptly shut down because of the financial status of its parent company, Window Media, and its majority shareholder, Avalon Equity Partners. Employees at the Blade were aware of Window Media's financial troubles, but the timing and total closure of the publication came as a shock to the entire staff. Kevin Naff, editor of the Blade, said employees "found out when two of the corporate officers were waiting for us when we got to work this morning".

Since the Blade had been a profitable newspaper, and because the debt-ridden Window Media was no longer draining the publication's finances, the same day the Blade shut down, Naff told the Washington City Paper he and the remaining staffers "We're all together. Our first meeting for our new venture is tomorrow morning." Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton said the Blade had been a "weekly must-read", and pledged support for a new publication to serve Washington's LGBT community. On November 20, 2009, a new venture, supported entirely by volunteering staff (who consisted of the majority of the Blade's editorial staff, as well as a few others, at the time of its closing), launched with its first issue.

American football in Norway began in 1949 when students from two secondary schools (videregående) in Oslo—at Riis and Ullern—began playing an annual gridiron game, starting with a meeting on October 30. An Associated Press report from Oslo the next day noted that a crowd of 500 watched, and that the introduction of the sport was credited to "Alf Stenere, former Norwegian exchange student to Bowdoin College, and Tony Bower of Kansas City, 17-year old student here". Reportedly, Riis won the first game, 20–13."Football in Norway", Newport (RI) Daily News, October 31, 1949 In 1983, the Norwegian American Football Federation (NAFF) was founded, and played its first international game in Stockholm, Sweden, and won 38–0.

While the male members of Garbage were filmed for the video, during offline editing, most of their shots were left unused after the director and the band felt their shots looked "naff".As quoted by Shirley Manson on Videotech, broadcast on May 21, 1999 Originally, actor Brad Pitt was cast as the role of the rescued man, but dropped out the night before filming. With a concept for the video to visually look like a "mixture of a piece by Ingmar Bergman and a Samurai warrior movie", the director created a rock pool and white sand dune landscape dominated by a large pair of eyes in the background sky. Throughout the video, an effect similar to bioluminescent insects flying at night is also employed.

In 2016, Suárez took the Top Prize - Bucheon Award - and the Aurora Media prize for his sci fi horror feature film pitch, Mogwai, at the Network of Asian Fantastic Films (NAFF),Sonia Kil, 'The Wailing' Wins Top Prize at Bucheon Fantasy Festival, Variety, July 29, 2016 a part of the new 7-day industry program BiFan Industry Gathering (BiG) in Bucheon, South Korea. On August 29, 2016, Aurora Media announced its $30 million global media fund to "invest in film, broadcast content, new media technologies and infrastructures in the wider regional and international market." Mogwai is included on its slate of upcoming projects.Dana Feldman, $30M Global Media Fund Is Bringing Hollywood To Southeast Asia, Forbes, September 29, 2016 The project is in development.

" Robert Koehler of Variety wrote: "adults will likely object to the innumerable plot question marks coming off the screen like so many kung-fu kicks to the head." Koehler compares the film to Hong Kong action movies, noting that the fights are relatively tame, but the visual effects are generally excellent. Jamie Russell at the BBC gave it 3/5 and called it "Truly naff, but endearingly silly." David Edelstein of Slate contended that Bulletproof Monk was "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon for the American Pie audience"; panning its poor special effects and cinematography (the former he compared to an "afternoon Japanese kiddie series"), and concluded that "they made a ton of junky movies in Hong Kong, but those were dazzlingly fluid and high-flying junky movies.

News-Gate wrote that an important criterion for a successful horror film would include "savage monsters and beautiful heroine," and that the film's plot of heroine and boy versus an epidemic was taken from a comic book by Tomohiro Koizumi. Djuna noted that this was director John Cairns' first feature film, and developed in 2010 through support of the Network of Asian Fantastic Films (NAFF). They wrote that the film's beginning and title might lead viewers to feel the film was to be simply a "Japanese schoolgirls killing zombies" film, but it took off in an unexpected direction. They also noted that the film was a bit garbled, the political metaphors were too strong, and it did not contain as much action as might have been expected.

Despite its critical and commercial success, Hairspray nonetheless garnered some criticism upon its release by individuals in the gay community. Much of this criticism surrounded Travolta's portrayal of Edna Turnblad, a role played in the original film by celebrated drag performer Divine, and in the stage adaptation by Harvey Fierstein. Kevin Naff, a managing editor for Washington, D.C./Baltimore area gay newspaper the Washington Blade called for a boycott of the new Hairspray film, alleging that Scientology, in which Travolta believes, was patently homophobic, and allegedly supported workshops designed to "cure" homosexuals. Adam Shankman protested Naff's proposed boycott, stating that Travolta was not homophobic, as he (Shankman), Waters, Shaiman, Wittman, and several other members of the creative staff were homosexual, and Travolta got along well with the entire crew.

Quality issues included frequent failure of gearboxes and water pumps, poor engine cooling that often resulted in motors overheating and generally poor production quality and panel fit. As a result, the Imp never sold as well as the Rootes Group had expected, never even came close to the sales of the Mini and was largely responsible for the Rootes Group's financial losses that almost bankrupted the company and led to the takeover by Chrysler. The Imp was featured in the books "The Worst Cars Ever Sold" by Giles Chapman and "Naff Motors: 101 Automotive Lemons" by Tony Davis, was named among "The Five Worst English Cars of All Time" in a 2012 article on askaprice.com and ranked the 5th worst British car in a 2008 survey of 4,000 motorists, carried out by internet magazine iMotormag. Hotcars.

As a young boy he grew up "takandeke", a traditional popular fight among the Aawambo young men practiced as an initiation into manhood, as well as swimming in the plains and wells during or after rainy seasons with his friends, and hunting in the forests. Time and again he would come back home with his shorts torn from all the climbing and adventure. He attended Eendombe Combined School and later Namibia English Primary School in Windhoek the Capital City of Namibia. This was after his father returned from exile after fighting for the liberation struggle of Namibia and took the then young man to the city to gain some education for the purpose of becoming better in life. This dream became a reality in D-Naff’s life however, without his father’s presence to witness what the world would refer to as D-Naff.

Harold Walker, the Minister of State for Employment, also urged Grunwick to co-operate with ACAS to end the dispute and criticised the involvement of NAFF, saying that this was not the first time that this "ultra right wing political organisation [had] sought to interfere in industrial disputes, with harmful consequences." Grunwick would not turn over the names and addresses of those still working to ACAS, or allow them access to the workers, saying that it would only do so if their opinions were canvassed while those of the strikers were not taken into consideration. The company explained "We are bound by the opinion of the loyal workers inside our company" and would not heed those of the strikers "outside". The draft report prepared by ACAS, who had been unable to canvass all of the workers, recommended recognition of APEX by Grunwick for negotiation purposes.

Backed by Gorst and NAFF, Ward threatened to take legal action against the UPW in the High Court, claiming the actions of its members was in direct contradiction to the provisions of section 58 of the Post Office Act 1953, which said that any officer of the Post Office who "wilfully fails to handle mail" would be guilty of a misdemeanour. Tom Jackson, the General Secretary of the UPW, responded that "The Post Office Act was written many years ago and it has never been tested in relation to sympathetic industrial action. Until it is, as far as our union is concerned, we are going to support these workers who are being badly treated by a nineteenth-century employer." The Act was not considered by observers to be as effective as Ward and Gorst believed, and had not been used by the Conservative government during the seven-week-long national Post Office strike in 1971.

He feared that it could become one of the many "thousands of naff eyesores" of recent public art in Britain, citing the embracing couple at St Pancras station (The Meeting Place), the Dockland's Traffic Light tree, and the proposed Rotherhithe Tunnel 'match-stick man' tribute to Isambard Kingdom Brunel, as London based examples. Fellow Times writer Tom Dyckhoff, while calling it "a gift to the tabloids" and a "giant Mr. Messy", questioned whether the Olympic site needed another pointless icon, postulating whether it would stand the test of time like the London Eye and become a true icon to match the Eiffel Tower, or a hopeless white elephant. Suggesting the project had echoes of Tatlin's Monument to the Third International, and especially Constant Nieuwenhuys' utopian city New Babylon, he asked whether Orbit was just as revolutionary or possessed the same ideological purpose, or whether it was merely "a giant advert for one of the world’s biggest multinationals, sweetened with a bit of fun". Rowan Moore of The Guardian questioned if it was going to be anything more than a folly, or whether it would be as eloquent as the Statue of Liberty.