After this initial foray into the mainstream, Heacock observes that usage of "kick ass", "kicking ass" and "kick-ass" picked up even more frequently from roughly the year 1990 onwards.
Their ranks include Christopher Nolan, of The Dark Knight and Inception fame, and Matthew Vaughn, director of Kick-Ass and the upcoming X-Men: First Class.
Apple is taking that supposedly wasted cash hoard and kicking serious ass while the rest of the computer industry sits around sucking its thumb and starts complaining about big, bad Apple cleaning up components and shutting them out.
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"Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up, " wrote Hemingway in a letter in 1950.
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Norman Mailer too is on there, even though he brings in a half-hooker doll who dismantles the bulb because there is too much light on their table, which Elaine is not having because these are her five-dollar fixtures from way back, and she tells her to get her ass out and never again to screw around with her light bulbs, which she never does.
It probably has its origins in the military, Adams says, where it was originally "kicking ass and taking names".
Did Steve Jobs, after he rejoined Apple in 1997 when Apple was on its ass and weeks away from bankruptcy, spend his days in front of the whiteboard writing up unrealistic plans?
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Learning to balance the world of pretty pretty princess with a world of women kick ass and take names adventure was one of the greatest values my family could have instilled in me.
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The McClellan case is pending but, in spite of being the second one for Deloitte in such a short time and with allegations of tipping others for profit that covered the same time period as the Flanagan case, Deloitte is still kicking consulting ass and taking names, including for the federal government.
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My favorite traveling foodie, DIY kitchen guru, and curmudgeonly wise-ass, Mark Bittman, is ending his popular column, The Minimalist.
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The training sequences are fun (Cruise gets knocked on his ass again and again), and the big battles are thrilling.
When we saw the Corsair 900D at CES we knew we had the enclosure we needed to make the original Hailstorm look like a small mid-tower system and not the bad ass high performance system it really was.
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Including "The Hangover, " five of this summer's 13 sequels are live-action comedies, such as Adam Sandler's family-oriented "Grown Ups 2" and "Kick-Ass 2" (Aug. 16), starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson as an angst-ridden high-school student turned superhero with no actual superpowers.
No here-say or supposition that could come and bite him in the ass.
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And he was kicking serious ass seemingly on a hourly basis.
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The cast includes John Travolta, Salma Hayek and Benicio Del Toro, but the main characters are played by young actors Blake Lively ("Gossip Girl") and Aaron Johnson ("Kick-Ass"), plus Taylor Kitsch, seeking redemption after starring in "John Carter" and "Battleship, " both big-budget road kill earlier this year.
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Just being slightly better than the cable company's garbage won't cut it for much longer -- again, the Media Center PC kicks your ass right now, and the high-end customer on which you're currently relying is going to figure that out soon.
The action-packed Blu-ray Disc and DVD are filled with kick-ass bonus features including behind-the-scenes featurettes along with audio commentary with the director, a gag reel and deleted scenes.
They have access to the codes, they can clean it up, add to it, and distribute it worldwide to kick some conficker ass.
And actually I became the lead vocal pain in the ass to get things done very different for Bungie.
Johnson, 20, played the young John Lennon in Nowhere Boy and was seen last year in comic book movie Kick-Ass.
The mobile Slingplayer client was, as always, seamless, and we were streaming widescreen video even on our crap-ass EDGE T-Mobile service in San Francisco with relative ease.
As he puts it, 'It's the biggest pain in the ass - you can wait two hours to sit and the staff is hands-down the meanest - but it's most frequently giving you the perfect pizza.
The running man returns not Jason Bourne but a new character, Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner), another hard-ass special-ops agent who defies his superiors and keeps on moving when they try to eliminate him, racing from continent to continent and across shantytown rooftops, through crowded marketplaces, down alleyways.
Armstrong thus becomes a bad-ass American folk hero, a Robin Hood in stars and stripes, if you like.
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It was simply your job to be an ethical, honest person, work your ass off, do some good for somebody else, and be happy you got to do it.
Fancy cars quickly reveal themselves to be huge pains in the ass: stick shift is senselessly annoying in the city and the wheels are constantly acquiring minute, infuriating blemishes.
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Within the past month, HTC released one of the most kick-ass phones ever: the Droid DNA. It offers screaming performance and an insanely beautiful 1080p display.
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You start and finish the challenge on a rooftop in a fixed position with a big-ass sniper rifle.
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