A blaster that automatically creates and fires toilet paper spitballs.
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Vargo is trying to enforce baseball's new rule designed to curb spitballs.
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Instead, Breitbart mostly uses its culture pages to aim spitballs at Hollywood lefties.
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But there's always an audience eager to keep those spitballs in the air.
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Steroids, spitballs and corked bats have been utilized by players to unfair advantage.
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"Other galaxies like Andromeda are shooting these 'spitballs' at us all the time," he noted.
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Without shared evidence or explicit reasoning, a theory is just a befuddling spectacle — spitballs taking flight.
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It was so long ago that the winning pitcher, 73-year-old Burleigh Grimes, threw spitballs.
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"Fake news" accusations flew back and forth every day, like so many spitballs in a third-grade classroom.
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What I don't like is when he's chucking spitballs across the room and making crude jokes in class.
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Democrats, for the first two years of Trump's presidency, got to sit in the back row and shoot spitballs.
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READMEA toy blaster that swaps foam darts for spitballs is the 12-year-old version of you's dream come true.
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Performance-Enhancing Drugs Cheating has always existed in sports: spitballs in baseball; weighted gloves in boxing; stealing another team's signs.
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Like a kid shooting spitballs, designer Beer Holthuis has figured out that sopping wet paper is the best material for making mischief.
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Until then, it's enough to add "forging stellar spitballs in supermassive black holes" to the list of the universe's most bizarre hijinx.
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It was classic Tim and Eric: remixing the tropes of stale show business, gleefully baffling the audience and throwing spitballs at comedy.
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"Because every week they throw spitballs, and they land on my ear," Kenneth told WWL, when asked why he didn't board the bus.
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The class clowns who merrily threw spitballs at New York's artistic landscape three decades ago are now, in more ways than one, seniors.
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He spitballs ideas with anyone within earshot, is prone to instantaneous decision making and prizes his ability to tweet straight to his base of supporters.
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Ukus's family-friendliness was tested when 5-year-old Clara began shooting spitballs, but neither our multitalented server nor the other customers batted an eye.
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Opening soon is a shrewdly timed adaptation of George Orwell's "1984"; Michael Moore arrives later this summer blowing Broadway-size spitballs at the White House.
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If they had a new coach for those past games, it would incentivized the team to play hard, instead of throwing spitballs at this substitute teacher.
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Then he was interviewed on MSNBC by Chris Matthews, who cited the about-face on Mr. Kerry and asked him to elaborate on the "spitballs" remark.
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And then there's the parent whose child could do no wrong, even when they're using a straw to fire spitballs into another classmate's hair from across the room.
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Online, political memes flew back and forth like spitballs, and even some of the most innocent ones (like that fish tube) took on a sense of ecstatic nihilism.
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Voters across the political spectrum prefer the ones who seem like that kid who sat in the back row and threw spitballs: Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Donald Trump.
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It was the body language of the players as much as the music that hinted at weeks spent not only rehearsing together, but also eating and hiking and dodging spitballs.
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Curated by Doug Eklund and Ian Alteveer, the exhibition spitballs about the greater meaning behind everything from assassination attempts to extraterrestrial touchdowns and the September 11 terrorist attacks all in one breath.
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Watch Zell Miller rant about John Kerry as an "auctioneer selling off our national security," proposing to defend us with "spitballs"; then challenging MSNBC's Chris Matthews to a duel: I rest my case.
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I mean, I really appreciated, Greg, because it seems to me that there&aposs so much animosity in the air, and everybody is throwing something beyond spitballs at each other at this point, and suspect of their motives.
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These mash notes and spitballs rain down endlessly not just from traditional review sites like TripAdvisor and Yelp (171 million reviews at last count) and retailers like Amazon, but also from Facebook and Google, those all-purpose giants.
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Like on so many other issues (the environment comes to mind), the Republican Party has receded to its corner, throwing spitballs at the Democrats — as if convincing the American electorate of the other side's lunacy is akin to leadership.
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A single roll of toilet paper will provide well over 350 shots before its empty, and while it boasts a range of about 50 feet, that will vary from shot to shot given no two spitballs are the same shape.
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The toy's packaging recommends sticking with two or three-ply TP for best results, which will reduce the number of shots you can fire before a reload is needed, but will also result in better performance (heavier spitballs) when you pull the trigger.
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Some Democrats continue to fear Mr. Trump, even in his current weakened condition: They worry that his skill at hurling spitballs and assigning humiliating nicknames, and his relish for the fight — much greater than Nixon's — could end in their failure to win an impeachment fight.
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Critic's Notebook Now that the internet has turned us all into middle-school kids shooting Snapchat spitballs and gossiping in homeroom about the burning issues of the day — How come Melania pulled the "got to fix my hair" trick to get out of holding Donald's hand in Rome?
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So with the GOP now mostly limiting itself to firing spitballs from the sideline, newly empowered House Democrats and their Senate allies have been presented with a massive opportunity to push forward and map out the future of health care in America -- if they can ever agree on their strategy first.
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The Skid Shot was no replacement for a tried-and-true Nerf blaster, but peppering someone with soggy spitballs is arguably a much better way to get revenge on an annoying co-worker, and cleaning tiny wads of toilet paper stuck to a wall is much easier than hunting down hundreds of foam darts that have bounced all over a room.
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Henry correctly answers the riddle using spitballs thrown to him by Clive Durkin, the class bully. At recess Clive and his brother Fred claim that the lollipop is his, because Henry used Clive's spitballs to help him work it out. Fred and Henry then have a fight, until Mrs Cross stops it and send Henry to the office. Henry explains the problem to Mr. Greenbeard, who understands as a similar thing happened to him when he was younger.
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In 1907, the manager of the Greenville Mountaineers, Tommy Stouch, signed Shoeless Joe Jackson, and to evaluate him, had Laval pitch against Jackson for five days of batting practice. He chose Laval for his assorted repertoire of curveballs and spitballs.
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He had to catch every type of pitch imaginable, such as shine balls, spitballs, knuckleballs, and emory balls. Gibson was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1958, the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 1987 and the London Sports Hall of Fame in 2002.
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Examples of behaviour which could warrant the dunce cap included throwing spitballs, passing notes, or pulling of hair. Class clowns were frequently admonished with the dunce cap. In modern pedagogy, punishments like dunce caps have fallen out of favor. According to The Straight Dope, Duns Scotus recommended the wearing of conical hats to stimulate the brain – so-called "thinking caps".
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Otis opens his mouth and is stunned when Ellen steps forward. Ellen was secretly feeding the rat as well. Subsequently, it is Ellen who is allowed to take the rat home at experiment's end, much to Otis's displeasure (although she gives it to him when her mother will not allow her to keep it). Otis' pranks are typically innocuous, such as firing spitballs in class.
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His death led Major League Baseball to establish a rule requiring umpires to replace the ball whenever it became dirty. Chapman’s death and sanitary concerns also led to the ban on spitballs after the 1920 season. Chapman's death was one of the examples cited to justify the wear of batting helmets. However, it took over 30 years to adopt the rule that requires their use.
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In 1941, Calloway fired Gillespie from his orchestra after an onstage fracas erupted when Calloway was hit with spitballs. He wrongly accused Gillespie, who stabbed Calloway in the leg with a small knife. From 1941 to 1942, Calloway hosted a weekly radio quiz show called The Cab Calloway Quizzicale. Calling himself "Doctor" Calloway, it was a parody of The College of Musical Knowledge, a radio contest created by bandleader Kay Kyser.
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Babe Ruth in 1920. right It was not the Black Sox scandal which put an end to the dead-ball era, but a rule change and a single player. Some of the increased offensive output can be explained by the 1920 rule change that outlawed tampering with the ball. Pitchers had developed a number of techniques for producing "spitballs", "shine balls" and other trick pitches which had "unnatural" flight through the air.
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After attacking Lisa with spitballs, Bart finds out his last baby tooth is loose. After some failed attempts in pulling it, Bart's tooth comes out when Marge forces a drawer open. Bart puts his tooth under his pillow for the Tooth Fairy and in the morning, he finds a note saying the Tooth Fairy made a donation in his name to the United Way of America. He soon begins to realize that he is not a child anymore.
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In Major League Baseball (MLB), the spitball was banned in two stages. In the winter of 1919–1920, managers voted to partially ban the spitball. Each team was allowed to designate up to two pitchers who would be permitted to throw spitballs. After the 1920 season, the use of the spitball was banned with the exception of a group of 17 existing spitballers, who were grandfathered in and allowed to throw the pitch legally until they retired.
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The poet W. H. Auden spent three years teaching English at The Downs during 1932–1935. He returned for the summer term in 1937 when the English master was away. He was loved as one of the more extravagant and eccentric teachers, who supplemented his teaching of English by teaching pupils how to make spitballs stick to the ceiling. He helped to found the school magazine The Badger in 1933, and his contributions to it included poems about school personalities.
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This causes Louise to quit, as Bob has effectively chosen Logan over her, his own daughter. Louise stays up in the apartment while Logan is in the restaurant. She fires spitballs at Logan through the crawl space and taunts him. Bob tells Louise to stop, but while he berates her through the crawl space vent and tells her once again to support the "greater good", Louise takes Bob's hedge clippers and heads off to the garden to destroy Bob's plot.
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The team was eventually called the Highlanders due to their homefield being on Hilltop Park from 1903–12. The Highlanders had a successful season in 1904 and were just one game away from winning the pennant that year. Highlanders star pitcher Jack Chesbro, who had won 41 games that year (an AL record that still stands today), was pitching in the bottom of the 9th inning to their eventual fierce rival the Boston Americans. One of Chesbro's spitballs got away allowing Boston to score and win the game and pennant on the wild pitch.
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In the 1960s, seven children of the family of Mae Bertha Carter were the first black students to attend white schools in Drew.Cobb, p. 248. Archie Manning, an American football player who had attended Drew High School, recalled that there had been no violent incidents against the children but that the white students ignored the Carter children. According to Susan M. Glisson, author of The Human Tradition in the Civil Rights Movement, Ruth Carter, the oldest of the Carter children, encountered racial taunts involving the word "nigger", students avoiding her and moving out of her way, and students throwing spitballs.
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Claudette (Mrs. Smokey) Robinson had several lead parts on this song (as the "lover way over there on the mountainside"), answering Smokey's leads with chants of "Come to me, Baby". The song's B-side, "(You Can) Depend on Me", while not charting nationally, did become a popular regional hit in many areas of the country,and Smokey still sings it in his live shows today. "Way Over There" has inspired cover versions by Edwin Starr, The Temptations, The Marvelettes, The Royal Counts, The Spitballs, and Eddie Adams Jr, while "(You Can) Depend on Me" has inspired cover versions by The Temptations, The Supremes, Mary Wells, and Brenda Holloway.
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He was fired that September after ordering his pitchers to throw spitballs (and telling the press that he did so) in protest of opposing Cleveland Indians pitcher Gaylord Perry, whom Martin was convinced was doing the same. Third base coach Joe Schultz served as interim manager for the remainder of the season. A bright spot for the Tigers in 1973 was relief pitcher John Hiller, who marked his first full season since suffering a heart attack in 1971 by collecting a league-leading 38 saves and posting a brilliant 1.44 ERA. Hiller's saves total would stand as a Tiger record until 2000, when it was broken by Todd Jones' 42 saves (Jones' record would later be broken by José Valverde's 49 saves in 2011).
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He was fired that September after ordering his pitchers to throw spitballs (and telling the press that he did so) in protest of opposing Cleveland Indians pitcher Gaylord Perry, whom Martin was convinced was doing the same. Third base coach Joe Schultz served as interim manager for the remainder of the season. A bright spot for the Tigers in 1973 was relief pitcher John Hiller, who marked his first full season since suffering a heart attack in 1971 by collecting a league-leading 38 saves and posting a brilliant 1.44 ERA. Hiller's saves total would stand as a Tiger record until 2000, when it was broken by Todd Jones' 42 saves (Jones' record would later be broken by José Valverde's 49 saves in 2011).
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He claimed to be the only major league catcher to have made a putout at every base, and once made three assists in one inning. He also became known for his handling of the White Sox pitching staff and his pitch-calling skills. His reputation as a defensive standout is enhanced due to the era in which he played: in the deadball era, catchers played a much greater defensive role than subsequently, given the large number of bunts and stolen base attempts, as well as the difficulty of handling the spitball pitchers who dominated pitching staffs. He had to catch every type of pitch imaginable, including shine balls, spitballs, knuckleballs and emory balls from pitchers such as, Ed Walsh, Eddie Cicotte, Dickie Kerr, Urban Faber and Ted Lyons.
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In 1869 she made a similar arrangement with the Pennsylvania Hospital, where in November 1869, a group of about thirty of Woman's Med students were verbally and physically harassed by male medical students. Anna Broomall, 1871 graduate of Woman's Med and future faculty member, recalled "the [male] students rushed in pell-mell, stood up in the seats, hooted, called us names and threw spitballs, trying in vain to dislodge us." The incident sparked very public debates in the local and national press about the propriety of the presence of female medical students at clinical demonstrations but the result was the inevitability and acceptance of co-ed clinics. In addition to educating medical students and advocating for woman physicians, Dr. Preston also practiced medicine, attending at Woman's Hospital and maintaining her own private practice.
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