(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.
Gimp
Definition:
(a.) Smart; spruce; trim; nice.
(n.) A narrow ornamental fabric of silk, woolen, or cotton, often with a metallic wire, or sometimes a coarse cord, running through it; -- used as trimming for dresses, furniture, etc.
(v. t.) To notch; to indent; to jag.
Example Sentences:
(1) British Cycling, Will’s Wheels and the curious case of 2,200 pieces of GB kit Read more Drake said: “I have never been made aware, formally or informally, of any allegation that Shane Sutton had used the offensive term ‘gimps’ in reference to Paralympic athletes prior to the media reports of the past few days.
(2) I do like people.” What they say “At the risk of ruining the honourable gentleman’s reputation as Thatcher’s gimp – I mean toy boy – may I enormously commend him for the work he has done as [select] committee chair for the past 10 years” – Chris Bryant MP
(3) PT: Photoshop is standard; though it certainly won’t hurt if you get good with GIMP, which is completely free.
(4) But BrewDog got to denounce Diageo as “a band of dishonest hammerheads and dumb-ass corporate freaks”, and to affirm that the incident showed “just how scared and jealous the gimp-like establishment are of the craft beer revolutionaries”.
(5) As well as woozily offering Mark Ronson a sip of his gin, we also got to witness him confessing his love for gimp masks; playing “ hide the banana ”; and an excruciating “bit” with blind tenor Andrea Bocelli in which he stammered “Nice to, erm, see you”.
(6) A kind of unshaven, post-watershed, post-divorce and redundancy Johnny Bravo whose style inspiration sits somewhere between matador and gimp.
(7) The localization and chemical characteristics of two Golgi integral membrane proteins (GIMPs) have been studied using monoclonal antibodies.
(8) Both GIMPs are glycoproteins that contain N- and O-linked carbohydrates.
(9) In an email to the Guardian Mellor said: “‘Get those Fucking Gimps’ was a phrase that was used by Shane [Sutton] and I confirm was ignored by Ian Drake when raised by me.” Mellor also stated that in his view the Paralympic athletes were discriminated against when it came to resources, for example travelling at times without a doctor or, on one occasion, being asked to scrap a training camp when the able‑bodied team’s budget fell short.
(10) Documents from Mellor’s evidence shown to the Guardian cited an episode in which Sutton was described as coming to the coach’s office and shouting “get those fucking gimps off the track”.
(11) It’s tempting to compare them to Late Night Gimp Fight, their predecessors as the fringe’s go-to troupe for “blood, poo and bumholes” (their words) comedy.
(12) But he was left with little option but to resign after he was also accused of calling members of Britain’s hugely successful Paralympic cycling squad “wobblies” and “gimps”.
(13) The young sketch troupe Late Night Gimp Fight were entirely unapologetic about their scene at Edinburgh last month, in which Sleeping Beauty wasn't kissed awake by her prince, but raped instead.