And one of those things-- I think it would be overstating it to call it a midlife crisis. But a midlife swerve or a midlife shift took the form of saying, well, you know, I'm turning 50, and I'd be OK if I tried to publish a book and failed, but I would feel kind of dumb if I never tried.
So if you ever want to walk like an Egyptian, just, like, grab your phone, and just kind of stroll across like this. And the cars will swerve around you. And everyone will think that Egyptian guy, he knows what he's doing.
is a gift from Jesus." I nearly swerved and no need to laugh at that. That's a serious line. I nearly swerved into a bus. "One of the Reverend's slogans," Tina said. Cathy began to sway in the backseat like a human metronome. The swaying got faster and faster till Tina reached under the seat and pulled out a short dog of Old
so that the opponent can see that you've done that. Now they know you cannot swerve . You're this mad dog that's just going straight ahead.
That's not really what we're-- and get into awkward-- I would-- yeah. I'd probably try and swerve it back-- Yeah, you probably would. --to the book, which-- but yeah.
You can drive and have a conversation with someone because driving can be automatic. But as soon as a car swerves in front of you, you stop talking. And all of a sudden, you use what's called controlled attention on that car in front of you so that you avert an accident.
And it's like, my dad-- how could you know something about this up here? And so he kind of swerved the car over. Went out, opened the back seat up, kind of picked me up, kind of shook me.
said what's the bad word I asked brightly I didn't see why he should be laugh out shut up you stupid I swerved off the roads stopped the car and hit the emergency lights I began to deliver a lecture on the difference between bad
The light changed and I had to watch the road again. Suddenly Cathy screamed, her voice charged with passion. "My vagina is a gift from Jesus." I nearly swerved and no need to laugh at that. That's a serious line. I nearly swerved into a bus. "One of the Reverend's slogans," Tina said. Cathy began to sway in the backseat like a
and one for right and one for fast and one for slow and one to be the eyes, barking orders and they should be able to do this. And it works! They even adjust their balance and centers of gravity for when the car swerves to stay upright at their posts. Check this out." He turned to the car. “Driving Elmos, ten-HUT!” They snapped upright and ticked salutes off their naked plastic noggins. “In circles, DRIVE!" The Elmos scrambled into position and fired up the car and in short order they were doing donuts in the car’s
The self-driving car. Suddenly two kids jump-- running after a ball jump in front of the car. The only way to save the two kids is to swerve to the side and fall off a cliff and kill the owner of the car who is asleep in the backseat.
Bruh means bro. Cringe is when something is like gross or awkward or uncomfortable. Curve, or swerve sometimes, is to reject someone. Don't at me is like don't call me out or don't disagree with me.
I think, God forbid, we could. And if I think you're more likely to swerve than I am, then I don't need to swerve .
anything or not, at this point, there's no good scientific research showing that that's the case. Matter of fact, the swerve , the brake seems to be that you're way better not having anything and learning how to run well. Actually McDougall, the writer of the book Born to Run, said it eloquently at the Google talk he did recently which was we're kind of a culture now where we've thrown somebody
You're both driving your cars at each other. The worst thing is if neither of you swerves , because then you both die, but you win if the other person swerves and you don't. The best strategy in this game is to visibly take the steering wheel out of your car and throw it out the window
So we stayed in the hospital overnight. But actually, the hurricane swerved north at the last minute and really missed hitting the city firmly. But nonetheless, there was a big storm, lots of water.
This is a road that was built across the landscape. And if you notice, it doesn't swerve due to changes in topography. It goes straight, like a turnpike.
Or a car suddenly, and have to swerve around or get out of the way.
Have you ever contemplated? Is it because God or the evolutionary gods or whatever it is that swerved us to get here decided they wanted to laugh as we had to anymore nimbly make our way over the ground or does it have some purpose?
You're this mad dog that's just going straight ahead. And now they realize, "Now my best action is just to swerve ." And that similarly, like what you want with the nuclear deterrent as they set up in "Dr. Strangelove." - In the 1963 film, "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb,"
Oh, mister. I think he's gonna swerve first.
I know, and basically it was just my locked arms making sure that I don't swerve .
LaFawn Bailey: You're a comedic columnist for the Entertainment Weekly and you wrote a book called Swerve : Reckless Observations of a Post-Modern Girl.
That's what he's thinking at this moment gazing down at the frozen river and regarding the improbable swerve his life has lately taken.
I think, God forbid, we could. If we both know that the collision between the two cars will be destruction, then each of us have an incentive to swerve .
Aisha Tyler: And it's almost, almost rhyming. And uh, so I just, I loved that and I wanted to write a book that was in that vein, so Swerve is a, is a collection of essays about
One is that in the end he climbs up on the tank- - Mm-hmm! - And the tank swerves , you know, it doesn't run him over.
It's that terrible, terrible tragic instant, when somebody comes across the road, where someone swerves , and you can't react.