But at least it has now become as much a point of honour in Salzburg to show that one is not a stick-in-the-mud, as it used to be a mark of prestige to get hold of a first-night ticket at all.
The nine cast members were shown partying, camping and "mudding, " where participants spin a vehicle in the mud until everyone inside is covered.
Other games of his are slower, or more contemplative, or fun toys such as ChatChat (a graphical MUD in which every player is a cat).
The homes of the Himba, who number between 30, 000 and 50, 000, are round structures constructed of sapling posts, bound together to form a domed roof which is plastered in mud and dung.
Maybe this was for real and Bill Singer is just a nasty stick in the mud.
Likewise betting your assets entirely on an exercise in finding the best skipper in a fleet all of which is mired in the mud may be an exercise in investment futility.
In the aftermath of such a crisis there is, of course, plenty of mud-slinging.
We weren't there, we were brought in to clean up this newspaper, with a new editor who is beyond reproach, but the mud was sticking on us.
There is only a relentless, season-long mud march.
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There is much more at stake than a handful of structures made of mud and wood -- as valuable as they are.
"It's a beautiful place to live and to basically have mud mounds all over the place is going to ruin it, " he said.
Thus the industry has for decades relied on a dense mud system to keep the hydrocarbons in the reservoir and everything that is done to maintain wellbore integrity is tested, and where a wellbore integrity test fails, remedial action is taken.
The next step is to try to staunch the flow proper with drilling mud, a mixture of water and clay minerals.
Sometimes, though, it comes down to the sort of game where hard grunt is the key - half the season is played in rain and heavy mud and Bath maybe just lack a little bit of dog.
And in some regions, cottonseed hulls are processed into oil-drilling mud, a sticky, industrial-strength type of Play-Doh that is used to plug leaks in oil wells.
Each chinampa is a rectangular platform typically about 6m wide by 91m long, covered in mud obtained from the surrounding shallow waters and fertilised by their nutrients.
But at a nearby school, we are shown what Calacharo says is the norm, a small cluster of putrid open-pit latrines made of mud bricks worn to mere shells by rain and lack of repair.
"The bottom-line takeaway message that I got from the report is that a company can work hard on privacy issues and still get dragged into the mud, " Cutts wrote.
"I'm not going to be so stuck in the mud that an opportunity to actually get something done is flagrantly wasted because of a kind of predetermined stubbornness, " he told U.S.-based journalists.
The centenary of the birth of Muddy Waters is to be marked at the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival with a concert by his eldest son Mud Morganfield.
The more significant aspect of Azharuddin coming out of his isolation with an mud-slinging interview is the decision to move court, which alone can give him a clean chit and help salvage his tattered reputation.
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