E-mail Calls You a 'Big Stupid Jerk'

AP Online;  August 27, 1999 ;     179 words ...AP Online 08-27-1999 E-mail Calls You a 'Big Stupid Jerk' TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's Fuji Bank Ltd. inadvertently...makes computers display a message calling the recipient a ``big stupid jerk,'' the bank said Friday. The bug was transmitted last...

Briefly; 'Big stupid wave'

Sunday Star-Times;  January 9, 2005 ;     55 words ...SWEDISH TODDLER Hannes Bergstroem, back home after surviving the tsunami that probably killed his mother, has talked about the "big stupid wave" that took him, according to his father. "That's the only comment he's had." Hannes, who was swept away from his family...

Letter from Toronto.

C: International Contemporary Art;  December 22, 1998 ;   Mark, Lisa Gabrielle;   487 words ......exhibition for the Power Plant takes a historicizing look at the Toronto art scene during the 1970s and 80s, and has longtime members of...might well feel like we missed a great party. Picturing the Toronto Art Community (to Dec. 20) includes artworks and archival material...

2-year-old survivor coping well after 'big stupid wave'

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  January 9, 2005 ;   Mattias Karen Associated Press;   424 words ......away from a beach in Thailand, though he "talks about 'the big stupid wave,' " his father said Friday. Nor has the toddler yet grasped...some awareness of what happened to him. "He talks about 'the big stupid wave' that took him," his father, Marko Karkkainen, told The...

live reviews: The Amphetameanies Basement, Annan, May 31 ****.(Features)

Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  June 6, 2008 ;     83 words ......thrown back at us. God bless the 'Meanies. They make people skank, jump, bounce, laugh, dance, sing and make sure we've got big stupid grins on our faces like the first time we heard Baggy Trousers on the radio. They're THAT good. And the good news is they...

Virus strikes bank's e-mail.(News)

The Mirror (London, England);  August 28, 1999 ;     40 words ...JAPAN'S Fuji Bank has accidentally sent out a virus-tainted e- mail which makes computers display the message big stupid jerk . The bug was transmitted last week to investors worldwide via a memo detailing Fuji's alliance with two other major Japanese banks.

The Village Idiot: Seeing red over Indigo Child

Capital (Annapolis);  January 28, 2007 ;   Jim Mullen;   643 words ......just fell over all by itself." "What fell over by itself?" "That big stupid red thing." "That big stupid red vase we got on our honeymoon in Venice 32 years ago? That big stupid red thing?" "Yeah, I guess." Sue and I said nothing as we waited...

'Crimson Rivers': Le Weapon Lethal

The Washington Post;  August 10, 2001 ;   Stephen Hunter;   755 words ......sited in the real adult world, the French now proudly prove they can make a big stupid violent cop movie, just like our gifted Hollywood professionals. Their big stupid violent cop movie is called "The Crimson Rivers," and if those little words...

Swedish 'Miracle' Toddler Survives Tsunami

AP Online;  January 7, 2005 ;   MATTIAS KAREN, Associated Press Writer;   464 words ......away from a beach in Thailand, though he "talks about 'the big stupid wave,'" his father said Friday. Nor has the toddler yet grasped...some awareness of what happened to him. "He talks about 'the big stupid wave' that took him," his father, Marko Karkkainen, told The...

A `Mighty' big role

Chicago Sun-Times;  October 13, 1998 ;   CINDY PEARLMAN;   787 words ......mind. "I mean, those people from the tabloids, they're just big stupid idiots." At 16, Culkin has done things most high school kids will never do. But he had to survive a few big stupid idiots along the way. The mind-boggling moments have made...

ART FOR EQUALITY

Herizons;  April 1, 2008 ;   Anonymous;   111 words ...Toronto art gallery owner Carol Mark set out seven years ago to help women and children in Afghanistan. Within a few years, her support helped...

Chimpanzee artists.(The Newspage)

Kidsworld Magazine;  June 22, 2003 ;     75 words ......created by Billy, the chimpanzee pictured above. The painting was one of many featured in recent to shows held in Montreal and Toronto art raise funds for the Fauna Foundation. This non-profit group runs an 80-hectare refuge for retired farm, zoo and circus animals...

WAG acquires work by Will Gorlitz

Winnipeg Free Press;  August 8, 2007 ;     75 words ......teacher Will Gorlitz. The 1989 piece, Three Essays in the Theory of Sexuality, comes to the WAG courtesy of a donation by Toronto art patron Margaret Marshall. The Gorlitz work, consisting of 21 panels, uses "Sigmund Freud's texts written in 1905 as both a...

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Isthmus;  June 13, 2008 ;   Anonymous;   196 words ......There was a time when I had a more romantic view of rain. I would even occasionally just stand in it and soak it all up like a big stupid flower. Now I just see water in my basement, the possibility of roof leaks, dogs that won't go outside, or when they do they...

Smart & sexy (good writing, art and ideas).

C: International Contemporary Art;  September 1, 1998 ;   Mason, Joyce;   346 words ......feature/insert that also serves as a catalogue for an upcoming exhibition at the Power Plant. The exhibition's subject - the Toronto art community's Queen Street Years - made this a great opportunity for such a collaboration. The era was one of ongoing experimentation...