(1) He was the kind of bloke you’d book the morning cutting session with and have a pint with him at lunchtime – you wouldn’t book the afternoon one because that’d be after his pint!” Porky also encouraged bands to scratch in their own messages.
(2) With its brightly punchy tomato sauce, good mound of rocket, decent if sparingly distributed mozzarella and porky, spicy salsiccia sausage, my sampler largely backed up such hype.
(3) Some did (the Porky's franchise ran and ran) and some didn't (anyone remember Squeeze Play?)
(4) Well how come you've been telling me a big bleedin' porky for the last six months?
(5) Power companies that do not meet their legal renewables obligations are telling porkies if they suggest that when you sign up for their green tariff, they will deliver more green electricity.
(6) April 30, 2015 O’Shaughnessy said: “Despite the odd porky Clegg is doing quite well.” And then added, “For clarity: I respect Clegg voting for £9,000 fees cos it’s a good policy.
(7) Now imagine that your neighbour has quietly accumulated debts of £30,000 over the years, and told a few porkies along the way to get their credit card limit raised.
(8) The kind of bawdy, sexually explicit antics that began with Porky's and resurfaced in the teenage and twentysomething-targeted "grossout" movies of the late 90s were extending their hold in films for those a little older.
(9) The roasted aroma of these porky treats emanates from La Reina de la Roma, a simple fonda with a few tables spilling on to the street, in the old Colonia Roma neighborhood, near its interesting central market.
(10) We have sex whenever we can and when we can’t we masturbate, ’cos being in a band takes up a lot of our time [Hillel starts to play an imaginary violin].” You once said: “We want to make the world a better place with our music.” I presume that’s a major-league porky pie?
(11) The patients were subdivided into two groups: a complex of commonly used curative measures according to the intensive therapy for AHI was applied in Group A (67 patients); in Group B (59 patients), alongside with the above measures, temporary organ substitution by hemoperfusion through a suspension of active porky hepatocytes was also performed.
(12) It also added dozens of diversions, the most needless of which was the ability of your controlled character, a young man named CJ, to get fat from eating health-restoring pizza and burgers – fat that could be burned off only by hauling CJ's porky ass down to the gym to ride a stationary bike and lift weights.
(13) Later imitations such as the Porky's series took the bawdiness of Animal House to a new level of explicitness, but overlooked the genuinely innovative aspect of the movie: its sophisticated frankness about rebellion.
(14) 1970s: a humble record-cutter popularises the “run-off groove” message George “Porky” Peckham cut records for the Beatles, Genesis and Led Zeppelin before setting up his own business in London’s West End, attracting punk and indie bands with cash-price deals.
(15) There’s not only the discount the government has inflicted on itself by telling porkies and playing cynical games with the voters, Abbott also faces the difficulties of the current political communication environment.
(16) When he finished a job, he’d “sign” his nickname into the deadwax between the music and the label – either Pecko, Pecko Duck, Porky, or his most famous inscription, “A Porky Prime Cut” – and add dryly humorous phrases.
(17) Marrying the ultimate in comfort and cured meat, J&D’s Bacon Scented Underwear represents the gold standard of meat-scented luxury undergarments,” says the Seattle-based food company behind the porky pants.
(18) As anyone who has ever tried to keep a car on the potholed roads of Bihar, in northern India, will know, that description is a giant porky.
(19) Why are former footballers like Alan Hansen and the one who looks like a porky hairdresser paid more than Jeremy Paxman , the most authoritative broadcast journalist in Britain?
(20) Please, send me your autograph.” Labour MP Jonathan Ashworth said: “This is all rather embarrassing for Eric Pickles, who’s been caught telling porkie pies about his pulling prowess.
Tubby
Definition:
(a.) Resembling a tub; specifically sounding dull and without resonance, like a tub; wanting elasticity or freedom of sound; as, a tubby violin.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Duke’s ancestor Hugh Lupus – the king’s head huntsman or grand veneur , a tubby man nicknamed gros veneur , from which derived the family surname – came across with William the Conqueror and was granted a chunk of Cheshire to protect the region from the Welsh.
(2) But marketing material won’t be enough to give you a proper understanding, warns Eleanor Tubby, graduate recruitment officer at Bird and Bird.
(3) The predicted location for a human homolog of tubby is HSA 11p15.
(4) Tubby Reddy, chief executive of the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic committee, told the Associated Press: “As he stands right now, he’s free [to compete].” Pistorius potentially faces up to 15 years in prison after being convicted of the South African equivalent of manslaughter, but could receive a suspended sentence and avoid jail altogether when he returns to court on 13 October.
(5) Several recessively inherited forms of obesity exist including the obese mouse, the diabetes mouse, fatty rat, the fat mouse, tubby mouse and the corpulent rat.
(6) His campaign speeches are broadcast from chilly, overcast London to the Karachi faithful, many of them women who hold portraits of their tubby, moustachioed leader.
(7) During his years with Real Madrid, an increasingly tubby but still marvellously effective Puskas struck up a famous partnership with the Argentine centre-forward, the domineering Alfredo Di Stefano.
(8) Marcus Christenson 75: Ezequiel Lavezzi, Paris St-Germain, Argentina; age 27, forward Despite all scientific regimes available to the modern footballer, thank goodness there is still room in the game for a player nicknamed El Pocho, or Tubby.
(9) Best warning Brazil: "Out-sized" Goias striker "Tubby" Walter , warning Flamengo he would "lie down and roll over them" in the Brazilian Cup.
(10) Fly through the future North of the Gherkin, a tower nicknamed the Can of Ham for its odd tubby form is currently being built.
(11) Beyond that, no one outside of CBS Television City has a clue what to expect when the “tubby kid”, as David Letterman called him , starts beaming into US living rooms.
(12) It has been described as a "tubby spaniel" by its admirers and as a "destructive nocturnal rat" by its critics.
(13) A tubby, barefoot man with broken teeth and wild eyes opened the door.
(14) This report describes the development of obesity syndromes in mice caused by two autosomal recessive mutations, fat (fat), located on chromosome 8, and tubby (tub), located on chromosome 7.