(1) You were well served by my distinguished stand-ins, however, and thanks go to them, too, for keeping Dork Talk alive.
(2) Mark Mayer, 38, from Dorking in Surrey, says he faces a similar problem in that his cerebral palsy is not always immediately obvious.
(3) Richard Barklie, 50, from Carrickfergus, Co Antrim, Joshua Parsons, 20, from Dorking, Surrey, and William Simpson, 26, from Ashford, Surrey, were each banned from football matches for five years – the maximum period allowed.
(4) His memoirs are wholly uninformative about his motivations and, though called The Turbulent Years, make the Thatcher governments sound about as turbulent as a drizzly morning in Dorking.
(5) Were these dorks themselves "role models" as broadcasters they might learn to parse syntactically and grammatically correct sentences in comprehensibly accented English.
(6) He claims to have owned the second Macintosh computer bought in the UK (the first apparently went to Douglas Adams) and until last year wrote the Dork Talk technology column for the Guardian.
(7) Sharon Campbell Dorking, Surrey • Ann Farmer ( Letters , 15 July) seems concerned that to debate assisted dying gives the message that we don't value the lives of people with disabilities.
(8) 12.30pm BST Lord Baker of Dorking used his speech to remind the house of the relatively recent introduction of the concept of compassion to prosecutions against those who assist others to die.
(9) Friends Life employs 3,700 people in the UK, with its largest operation in Bristol, and smaller offices in Dorking.
(10) Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee chairs a panel that includes Melissa Benn, Lord Baker of Dorking and Cambridge academic Prof Robin Alexander.
(11) Now 76 and transmuted into Lord Baker of Dorking, he is smiling again as – in his office at 4 Millbank, a few yards from the houses of parliament and with ITN just across the corridor – he outlines his latest vision for English education.
(12) Garrett, with Danielle Molinari and Jo Dorking, meanwhile, live in social housing in Hoxton that has just been bought by a consortium part-owned by Conservative MP Richard Benyon: rents are expected to go up to market rates of £400-£600 a week.
(13) Then there is the mystery of Halina Żaboklicka, a Polish woman whose treasured letters were found in the pub’s old barn during a clear-out in 1995 by the then owners Jo Dorkings and Joe Stephens.
(14) After allowance for age, sex, social class, and severity of symptoms, subjects in the northern towns of Arbroath and Peterlee who had suffered from low back pain in the past year were three to four times as likely to have consulted their doctor about the problem as those living in the southern towns of St Austell and Dorking.
Geek
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Example Sentences:
(1) Freaks And Geeks was my thing, based on my experiences.
(2) Far from being depressed, the audience turned into a heaving mass of furious geeks, who roared their anger and vowed that they would not rest until they had brought down the rotten system The "skeptic movement" (always spelt with "k" by the way, to emphasise their distinctiveness) had come to Singh's aid.
(3) Google has tried hardware – even home hardware – before with a smart power meter (shut down in September 2011), the Nexus Q set-top box (never went on sale), and is currently trying to persuade people beyond geek boundaries to try its Google Glass headset.
(4) There have always been geeks and fans here, it’s just now they call it Comic-Con.
(5) Shadowtroopers and AT-AT walkers should keep the geeks happy At-AT walkers Photograph: YouTube Black-armoured stormtroopers have featured in numerous (largely non-canonical) Star Wars novels, games and comic books over the years, but never in the movies themselves.
(6) At the same time, however, I also know to expect a series of variations on two classic negative comments: "You geeks need to get out more" and "Do adults really play these things?"
(7) In the spirit of the page, this is a reception where 900 science enthusiasts can chat, meet pop-science experts and geek out.
(8) Geek Girl Meetup Geek Girl Meetup is targeted at females with an interest in tech, design and startups.
(9) Jeff Jarvis , professor, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jeff, author of Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News; What Would Google Do?
(10) He inhabits a variety of modes: the lecturer, the thinker, the math geek in a hoodie in front of a chalkboard of formulas, the leader with a lightly clenched fist to show decisiveness and determination.
(11) • Week in Geek sees Ben Child hoping James Mangold will get it right for The Wolverine , a second attempt to spin off Hugh Jackman's X-Men character.
(12) Comic-book epics Finally, no Week in Geek preview would be complete without a rundown of the coming year’s superhero stylings.
(13) Silberman’s story on the topic, The Geek Syndrome , was published by Wired in 2001.
(14) Tobey Maguire fans – and there are many vocal and vehement ones – will insist that no one can replace the king of geek chic in the Spider suit, but they may come to accept that if anyone can, it's Garfield.
(15) All your baby has actually done – in geek terms – is receive the latest OS update, which fixes a few bugs (it goes cross-eyed less often), clears up some performance issues (it feeds more efficiently), and enables new features (object-batting now included).
(16) They tried to make the geek the hero, and audiences don't get the excitement of projecting on to that, because that's who they are already.
(17) Geek culture is made up of, and enjoyed by, all kinds of people and our norms should reflect that.
(18) The others were fiddly, trivial-looking plastic things cluttered with buttons and dials, appealing mainly to gadget-obsessed geeks with the time to figure out how to work them.
(19) Hamilton can be enjoyed by both the musical theater geek and the rap aficionado, but it ultimately has more to offer the former.
(20) Simon Brew of Den of Geek wrote : "He might not be Ryan Gosling, but Affleck has quietly been impressing as an actor, and maturing as one too.