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When a loose cannon flogs a dead horse there's the devil to pay: seafaring words in everyday speech. Camden ME: International Marine. ISBN 978-0-07-032877-8. Miller, Charles A. (2003). Ship of state: the nautical metaphors of Thomas Jefferson : with numerous examples by other writers from classical antiquity to the present. Lanham, MD ...
(Reuters) -EBay agreed to pay $59 million and upgrade compliance measures to resolve U.S. Department of Justice allegations it didn't try hard enough to stop criminals from buying devices for ...
eBay office in Toronto, Canada. eBay Inc. (/ ˈ iː b eɪ / EE-bay, often stylized as ebay or Ebay) is an American multinational e-commerce company based in San Jose, California, that allows users to buy or view items via retail sales through online marketplaces and websites in 190 markets worldwide.
Common recurring themes regarding the Internet appear in popular media and reflect pervasive cultural attitudes and perceptions. Although other models and constructed metaphors of the Internet found in scholarly research and theoretical frameworks may be more accurate sources on the effects of the Internet, mass media messages in popular culture are more likely to influence how people think ...
"eBay" is a parody song by American musician "Weird Al" Yankovic. It is a parody of " I Want It That Way " by the Backstreet Boys . In the song, the narrator describes how he impulsively purchases unneeded (and bizarre ) items on eBay (among them being " Shatner 's old toupée ", "a Dukes of Hazzard ashtray ", and "a Kleenex used by Dr. Dre ").
The picture stemmed from an article on the site 27bslash6.com wherein David Thorne claims to have attempted to pay a chiropractor's bill with a picture of a 7-legged spider, which he valued at $233.95. On eBay, the bidding price started at $233.95, with bidding ended at a sale price of US$10,000. [63]
The IFAW found that up to 90% of the elephant-ivory transactions on eBay violated their own wildlife policies and could potentially be illegal. [33] In October 2008, eBay expanded the ban, disallowing any sales of ivory on eBay. [34] [35] A more recent sale in 2008 of 108 tonnes from the three countries and South Africa took place to Japan and ...
Merchant Ivory Productions is a film company founded in 1961 by producer Ismail Merchant (1936–2005) and director James Ivory (b. 1928). Merchant and Ivory were life and business partners from 1961 until Merchant's death in 2005. During their time together, they made 44 films.