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There's a very fine control over what part of the trunk is contracting, it's not the whole trunk that is elongating and shortening -- it's portions, depending on what the elephant is doing. – Michel Milinkovitch	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I only touched one guy, I smacked him, I saw Haider Anjam take out the wooden cricket bats from the trunk. – Ashan Azad	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I’m gonna leave either tonight or tomorrow. I’ve got a .357 Henry Big Boy rifle lever action that I’ve got in the trunk of my car and I’ve got a .357 single action revolver, the Colt Ruger Vaquero that I’ll have underneath the front seat on my right side and I will embrace my Second Amendment. – Otero County	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I have never seen anything like it before. The squirrel had its paw raised and the bird had its beak wide open, it was like they were going to have a fight. Karen Crawford, 59, captured the face-off as the pair appeared to be having a row over a handful of nuts on a tree trunk. In the shot, the red squirrel is perched vertically on a tree stump with its paw in the air, as the bird sits on the other side with its beak wide open. (Credit: SWNS) Perhaps even more remarkable, Crawford admitted she did not even realize she took the photos until she got home. I thought wow when I got home and saw the picture and the reaction I have had to it has been really strong. – Karen Crawford	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The shocking discovery of 2,411 medically preserved fetal remains in Illinois, left in a garage and in the trunk of a car, was horrifying to anyone with normal sensibilities. – Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Both of the dogs reacted to the trunk of the silver Nissan that the defendant had driven and that the blue laundry basket was recovered from, indicating that the dogs were responding to the scent of human decomposition in the vehicle. – Pat Stayton	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Perishable foods should not be out for more than one hour when it's hot out, and that includes the time traveling to the beach if the food is unrefrigerated in your vehicle's trunk. – Isabel Maples	Found on CNN 6 years ago
My biggest fear was he was going to drive this car into a river and I’m going to drown there and no one is going to know I’m in this trunk. – Brittany Diggs	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Trunk growth is slowing down, but we don't play in those markets given the slot constraints in these hubs. There is growth outside these cities. – Andy Solem	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The rehab months were unbelievable, it was like Paul Gaylord was Paul Gaylord, learning how to do everything again. We learned how to lift the wheelchair into the trunk of a car together. We became a team at living life. It really brought us so much closer together. – Lucinda Marker	Found on CNN 9 years ago
My eyes and face were swollen, and I had a rash all over my trunk. – Donna Emley	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
In-bee isn't flexible, her wrists aren't flexible so there's a limitation on her cocking. She also has limited trunk rotation... but she uses her swing to overcome her physical limitations. – Jay Hahn	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, and all other systems that traffic in future rewards rather than in present realities. – Tom Robbins	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition. – Earl of Kent, _The_Tragedy_of_King_Lear_	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth. – Lao Tzu	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Nicky A lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes. But you gotta do it right. I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you're talking about a half-hour to forty-five minutes worth of digging. And who knows who's gonna come along in that time Pretty soon, you gotta dig a few more holes. You could be there all f*in' night. – Casino**	added by anonymous 14 years ago

There's a very fine control over what part of the trunk is contracting, it's not the whole trunk that is elongating and shortening -- it's portions, depending on what the elephant is doing.

– Michel Milinkovitch

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I only touched one guy, I smacked him, I saw Haider Anjam take out the wooden cricket bats from the trunk.

– Ashan Azad

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I’m gonna leave either tonight or tomorrow. I’ve got a .357 Henry Big Boy rifle lever action that I’ve got in the trunk of my car and I’ve got a .357 single action revolver, the Colt Ruger Vaquero that I’ll have underneath the front seat on my right side and I will embrace my Second Amendment.

– Otero County

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I have never seen anything like it before. The squirrel had its paw raised and the bird had its beak wide open, it was like they were going to have a fight. Karen Crawford, 59, captured the face-off as the pair appeared to be having a row over a handful of nuts on a tree trunk. In the shot, the red squirrel is perched vertically on a tree stump with its paw in the air, as the bird sits on the other side with its beak wide open. (Credit: SWNS) Perhaps even more remarkable, Crawford admitted she did not even realize she took the photos until she got home. I thought wow when I got home and saw the picture and the reaction I have had to it has been really strong.

– Karen Crawford

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The shocking discovery of 2,411 medically preserved fetal remains in Illinois, left in a garage and in the trunk of a car, was horrifying to anyone with normal sensibilities.

– Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Both of the dogs reacted to the trunk of the silver Nissan that the defendant had driven and that the blue laundry basket was recovered from, indicating that the dogs were responding to the scent of human decomposition in the vehicle.

– Pat Stayton

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Perishable foods should not be out for more than one hour when it's hot out, and that includes the time traveling to the beach if the food is unrefrigerated in your vehicle's trunk.

– Isabel Maples

Found on CNN
6 years ago

My biggest fear was he was going to drive this car into a river and I’m going to drown there and no one is going to know I’m in this trunk.

– Brittany Diggs

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Trunk growth is slowing down, but we don't play in those markets given the slot constraints in these hubs. There is growth outside these cities.

– Andy Solem

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The rehab months were unbelievable, it was like Paul Gaylord was Paul Gaylord, learning how to do everything again. We learned how to lift the wheelchair into the trunk of a car together. We became a team at living life. It really brought us so much closer together.

– Lucinda Marker

Found on CNN
9 years ago

My eyes and face were swollen, and I had a rash all over my trunk.

– Donna Emley

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

In-bee isn't flexible, her wrists aren't flexible so there's a limitation on her cocking. She also has limited trunk rotation... but she uses her swing to overcome her physical limitations.

– Jay Hahn

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, and all other systems that traffic in future rewards rather than in present realities.

– Tom Robbins

added by anonymous
13 years ago

A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition.

– Earl of Kent, _The_Tragedy_of_King_Lear_

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.

– Lao Tzu

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Nicky A lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes. But you gotta do it right. I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you're talking about a half-hour to forty-five minutes worth of digging. And who knows who's gonna come along in that time Pretty soon, you gotta dig a few more holes. You could be there all f***in' night.

– Casino

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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