Presumably, Tom also had picked out his clothes for the meeting--a T-shirt, cut-off jean shorts and flip-flop sandals--and the brand of gum he was chewing.
When it comes to the U.S. market for initial public offerings, though, Facebook was just a high-profile flop in a series of lesser-known flops.
One common culprit of America's foot pain, especially during the summer, is the flip-flop.
So if you have to go in this direction, is this a flip-flop on his position?
The number and distribution of big hurricanes seems to flip-flop between two fairly stable patterns.
"Where they are getting in hot water is the successive flip-flop of strategies, " he says.
Sony's face-flop with the PS3 proves gamers aren't obsessed with hyper-realistic graphics to the extent that game designers are.
And because of ObamaCare's enduring unpopularity, we don't even fear that Romney will flip-flop on this after taking office.
In the choice between another strategic flip-flop or doubling down on a bad bet, Whitman made the right decision.
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Some political analysts say Smith's flip-flop has made him vulnerable and may cost him his Senate seat in 2002.
Reduced to soundbites, the first sounded callous and the second like a flip-flop.
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Either this was false, or her taped conversations are false: either way, her flip-flop makes her a suspect witness.
That looks like another flip-flop - except that a private-sector fair was his intention from the start, Estrada says.
Only this spring, once Bench had flip-flop samples in hand, did Harrington and his wife, Jean (Bench s godmother), make a low-six-figure investment.
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But look at medians instead of averages and the results flip-flop to 18.1% for tight money and 12.4% for loose money.
Four are designed to help you execute flip-flops, and four will help you appreciate the value of a flip-flop by others.
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They also will receive a bar of soap, a squeeze bottle of shampoo, a toothbrush and toothpaste, and flip-flop sandals for showers.
Located 20 minutes away from the beach, it is a wild paradise for 20-something, flip-flop wearing Australian and Turkish youth and their version of fun.
Otherwise the place is all about flip-flop simplicity with a beck-and-call staff.
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Mr Obama's flip-flop on public finance is certainly cynical (and his willingness to justify it as an act of high principle even more so).
Every summer New Yorkers hear a steady thwack of rubber slapping pavement as flip-flop-wearing interns pour out of subways and into offices across the city.
"It could flip-flop and we could end up with the strength of the storm still to come, " Mr. Kunches said from the NOAA forecast center.
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This flip-flop will not play well politically with the American people.
The Republicans have attempted to pin the flip-flop label on Kerry.
He combines stubbornness with an impulsive tendency to flip-flop on issues.
Bill Adair, the editor of PolitiFact.com, has been helping us sort through some of the candidates' claims, and today he's here whether Barack Obama did flip-flop.
Not only did Newt flip-flop on his position, he outright lied when he said that he has fought the notion of mandates at his Center for Health Transformation.
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The story of this thrilling upstart in the land of flip-flop sandals starts at the northern end of the Interstate-75 freeway and runs south to Fort Myers, Fla.
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