(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 .
Peachy
Definition:
(a.) Resembling a peach or peaches.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's partial setting in the 50s deliberately echoes Frank Capra, and it would be daft to underestimate the reach of the allure of this peachy American dream.
(2) We also have a few seasonal beers, too, such as a blood orange-infused IPA called Bloody 'Ell, and Quelle Saison, a peachy yellow Belgian-style creation.
(3) 52 min: Johnson turns inside from the right wing and sends a peachy cross towards the far post.
(4) Educating Yorkshire does not pretend race relations are peachy at Thornhill.
(5) Shimmery metallics popped against a peachy colour palette, in a collection that was awash with Zimmermann trademarks: eye-catching prints, cut-out shapes, handkerchief hems and, as always, a wink to the past.
(6) Wonga does not expect to be one of the companies driven out of the market, and the company's advertising strategy tries to set Wonga aside from the myriad of evocatively named rival online companies that offer money if you Google payday loans: Kwikcash, Loans for Women, QuickQuid, Toothfairy, Payday UK, Payday Express, GetCashToday.co.uk and Peachy (which has a "representative" APR of 16,381%).
(7) Wonga is the biggest online lender in the payday loan sector with about a 30-40% market share, but there are around 90 other lenders including Dollar Financial UK (the parent company of brands that include The Money Shop, Payday Express and Payday UK), CashEuroNet, QuickQuid, Peachy and Sunny.
(8) The Wonga puppets, and characters created by other payday lenders, have come under fire The Advertising Standards Authority has already taken some action, banning a Cash Lady advert which used Kerry Katona's financial problems to market its 2,760% APR loans, and a radio advert for Peachy Loans where the 1,918% interest rate was read as "nineteen eighteen".