#ropes

My first thought was, “I got a haircut and trimmed my pubes for this job interview?” Then I thought, “Maybe being a political intern isn’t such a bad gig after all. I could learn the ropes that bind the people into bondage.”
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— Jarod Kintz

#dirty #haircut #intern #internship #interview

We didn't have the lane ropes, we had to get up higher in the water to avoid the little waves. ↗

— Johnny Weissmuller

#get #had #higher #lane #little

I've never seen a truly great fighter get knocked onto the ropes unconscious... knocked out cold before... and I saw Roy Jones get knocked out twice in a row. ↗

— Jim Lampley

#cold #fighter #get #great #i

Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#against #budgetary #care #desires #gop

My youngest daughter sings. She's going to be very good. She's graduated from Music School and she's been working down around and getting her feet wet, you know. I had her out with me for a year just showing her the ropes a little bit, but she's going to be all right. ↗

— Billy Eckstine

#been #bit #daughter #down #feet

A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up. ↗

— Mae West

#get #knows #likely #ropes #tied

I see these guys, they throw a guy into the ropes and they do a back flip and then clothesline the guy and it looks stupid. Why don't you just clothesline the guy? ↗

— Owen Hart

#flip #guy #guys #i #i see

The leg drop was a move that nobody really used, and nobody ever hit the ropes and jumped up really high, so I tried it out in Japan and the people loved it. That's how I came up with it. ↗

— Hulk Hogan

#drop #ever #high #hit #how