Hints and tips:
...The poet Philip Larkin asked why he should let work, which he envisioned as a toad, “squat on his life”....
...I feel beautiful, as I emerge from the toad-green water with a few damp leaves stuck to my goose-pimpled legs, but I don’t look it. My skin goes red, my lips a bit blue, I have woolly hat-hair....
...They sat among throngs of boisterous bachelorettes wearing pink hats and tipsy St Patrick’s day revellers clad in green....
...For some, it evokes the days of building portfolios around the whims of stockpicking toads....
...In 2015, she set up the agency and now represents more than 150 animals, including Dunkin Ducks, which have 2.1m followers on TikTok, and Toby Toad, who frolics in a doll’s house and has 177,000 followers...
...It provides refuge for the tipsy, the joyful, the insomniacs. If you grew up below the Mason Dixon line, something happened to you once at the Waffle House....
...Tough crowd, tough guy Hedgie Alan Howard was last publicly sighted battling to explain his strategies through a faulty microphone to a tipsy audience at an industry awards....
...When Australia introduced cane toads to control sugarcane beetles in Queensland in the 1930s, the toads swarmed the country, wiping out indigenous fauna....
...He has pulled out at least 20 dead fish, including big trout, which was “a bit heartbreaking really”....
...Mr Watt says this crowdfunding has created more than 40,000 brand ambassadors while letting BrewDog raise funds without losing control to the “venture-capitalist toads”....
...“Our understanding is that money drops best when people are feeling tipsy but before they’re actually drunk.”...
...It could have been the utter lack of points in five years of competing in Grands Prix, or the embarrassment of being overtaken by a Toad driving a jalopy and shouting: ‘Poot! Poot!’...
...Tenacious tortoise Long-only, stockpicking fund managers are as much a commonplace of the City as tipsy brokers failing to flag down cabs on Thursday night....
..."Was Blue Toad really the source of the breach? How did the data get to the FBI (if it really did at all)?...
...In some houses, “party food” is what gatecrashers steal from the fridge when the hosts are tipsy. For M&S shoppers, it means mince pies and cocktail sausages handed around on John Lewis plates....
...Next door, at Honeydukes sweetshop, the most popular items are Peppermint Toads ($8), Pumpkin Juice ($6), Chocolate Frogs ($10), Fizzing Whizbees ($10) and Exploding Bon Bons ($10)....
...“Early one morning, I was at the Lost Lagoon, doing nothing, no reason, just listening to woodpeckers, toads, leaves, rain …” the memory’s so vivid that I’m standing there again, a boy, really, in a man’...
...His lyrics took on weekend trips upstate, getting tipsy on Second Avenue, daydreaming about a girl drinking coffee, meeting said girl for an ice-cream outside a bookshop, shopping for a thrift-store shirt...
...“We [Berkshire Hathaway] have occasionally been quite successful in purchasing fractional interests in easily-identifiable princes at toad-like prices.” This looks like one of them....
...“By the time my people hit 60, we look like a bunch of hyper-sensitive red toads in a phlegm-coughing contest,” he writes....
...One of the lessons that investors seem to have to learn over and over again, and will again in the future, is that not only can you not turn a toad into a prince by kissing it, but you can not turn a toad...
...It would remove the discomfort of having one of its principal rivals squatting, toad-like, on its share register....
...And do not regale a man in episcopal purple with a tipsy impersonation of the comedian, Roy “Chubby” Brown. Web networking is harder to fathom....
...The songs tell the story of an itinerant cat, a union-organiser mouse and a preaching toad making their way through a Depression-era West that frequently sounds alarmingly contemporary....
...In the case of TG21, formerly Toad, an investor was offered a price 232 times the market price but he would have had to deposit a “bond” of £3,538....
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