>Good morning. (All right, good afternoon). I was waiting for an Englishman to wander by so I could share a flyer that landed on my doorstep the other day. It was from a local landscaping company looking for new customers. The headline: "NEW SODDING 10% OFF." Sounds like quite a deal, no?

Hmmmm! Not really. We don't use the verb "to sod" and I'm sure its longer form is the same in the US anyway :-)

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>>Now perhaps they'll at last be able to wrest that minuteman's flintlock from his "cold dead hands"!
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>>>LOS ANGELES — Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing "Ben-Hur" and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in movie epics of the '50s and '60s, has died. He was 84.
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>>>According to a statement from the actor's family, Heston died at his home in Beverly Hills on Saturday. His wife Lydia was at his side.