The FCC says it decided to attempt standardization of VHF receivers after getting thousands of complaints from disgruntled boatmen who found their sets brought in mostly a lot of garble and static.

Mama hated her own name, Arlene. Arlene, Marlene, Darlene, they're all hayseed names, she deplored. Even more than Arlene, she hated Lena, which she'd been called in school, growing up.

An aposteme gendred in þe purgynge places, þat is to say, of þe brayne vnder þe eres, of þe herte vnder þe arme holes, of þe lyuer in the schares.

A title so clear, as if it were “written with a beam of the sliny;” which no true Englishman in his right wits did ever yet oppose, but one or two foreign pensioners, maintained on purpose abroad to kindle scathfires at home, who gained nothing by the question but to render themselves ridiculous.