(1) I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to, or confidence to, if it hadn’t been for Duckie.
(2) Bowie broke the silence in 2013 with The Next Day , a gnarly rock album spitting anger at warmongers, zombie celebrities and The Reaper with equal venom, as he prepares to “stumble to the graveyard and lay down by my parents”, adding archly, “just remember duckies, everybody gets got”.
(3) But somewhere between the non-coast guard approved rubber duckie floatation device and open manholes there is a happy middle ground.
(4) As if that wasn't enough to drain any possible pleasure out of the experience, the lifeguards, who could pass for navy Seal trainees, were so authoritarian that a five-year-old girl was ordered out of the toddler section because her rubber duckie ring was not a "coast guard approved floatation device".
(5) After almost closing its doors recently, one of the UK’s oldest gay venues has now been Grade II listed and is back up and running with a full technicolour range of attractions, including Duckie, a Saturday night cabaret show that has been running for more than 10 years.
(6) Duckie programmes the most innovative live artists.
(7) Best of all, it saw the mighty Duckie (Jon Cryer) miming along to Otis Redding's Try a Little Tenderness.
(8) I would not usually feel confident enough to try that sort of comedy character at other venues, but at Duckie difference is embraced.
(9) The preparations of brains from wabbler-lethal, ducky, and weaver mice showed normal activity.
(10) • hackneyshowroom.com Chosen by Scottee , asscociate artist at the Roundhouse and performance collective Duckie Royal Vauxhall Tavern Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Royal Vauxhall Tavern Unfortunately, queer spaces are disappearing in London, but one place that is still standing and remains the lynchpin of the scene is the Royal Vauxhall Tavern.
(11) I was part of Duckie Homosexualist Summer School and I got to MC our showcase as a terrifying buffoon called the Matron – dressed head to toe in leather, a huge tumour bottom, a mop for a head and eight-inch high heels – shouting and swearing at the Duckie audience; an audience of drag kings, queens, students, regulars and people who had no idea what to expect.
(12) We rooted for Duckie in Pretty in Pink , hid behind the sofa during Jaws, were baffled by Blue Velvet, and learned about love wandering the streets of Vienna with Jesse and Céline in Before Sunrise .
Mucky
Definition:
(a.) Filthy with muck; miry; as, a mucky road.
(a.) Vile, in a moral sense; sordid.
Example Sentences:
(1) People around, young people in general can see what engineering is and the fact that it is no longer a mucky, oily, grimy place to work but it is a light, airy, clean environment," he said.
(2) In the flesh, though, he's more Bruce Forsyth than Bruce Willis: sweet-eyed, gleaming-teethed, with a keen ear for innuendo and a frankly mucky chuckle.
(3) Then, the water had been clear and clean, not mucky as it is now full of floating debris and sometimes choked with weeds.
(4) I always hear heartier laughs, the guttural kind and the foghorn ones, mucky-dinnerlady-type laughs.
(5) 'I always hear heartier laughs up north, the guttural kind and the foghorn ones, mucky-dinnerlady-type laughs' … Lucy Beaumont.
(6) Some of it is even shot in the participants' own kitchens, so there's an awful lot of clutter and mucky sponges you really don't need to see.
(7) Let's assume, entirely hypothetically, that someone steals a laptop containing mucky candid photographs of Rodney Bewes and tries to flog them to the tabloids.
(8) Who knows where tourism tourism will stand, once this mucky debate is over?)
(9) Carol Roe, Dhu’s grandmother, felt the lump as well, and said it was “very mucky, like dried blood”.
(10) Gore then embarked on a crusade against all things mucky in pop, founding the Parents Music Resource in 1985, the pressure group whose lobbying resulted in warning stickers plastered on the front of offending CDs.
(11) I've come to talk to her about her latest collection, Memorial , and she picks me up from Totnes station, a calm and formal figure in a singularly mucky blue car.
(12) So we seem to be back to the era of the "arty European film" being code for "a bit mucky".
(13) We have ancient, mucky trains; frequent breakdowns; no possibility of a direct train to Glasgow or Bristol.
(14) This is largely due to what she wears before the action kicks in and she gets all mucky trying to save people from dinosaurs.
(15) This week’s cause for irritability is the stupidity of both the pro-privatisation lobby (the government and red-necked Conservatives, who want to privatise everything that moves) and the anti-privatisationists (the “keep your mucky capitalist hands off our perfect NHS” ranters).
(16) Imagine surviving napalm burns to a third of your body, when most victims with even 10% perish, and getting to the age of 53 without realising that you’d been involved in a mucky snap all along.
(17) For now, at least, it's a relaxing, albeit mucky, attraction for visitors to Cartagena on the Caribbean coast.