Once the action began, the 6-foot-2, 230-pound Mr. Zepaltas celebrated by belly-flopping into the tomato heap.
The Big Ten has reigned for the past three regular seasons before flopping in the postseason.
Flip-flopping from monarchy to military rule to democracy and back again makes for a wobbly foundation.
Big names like Mark Wahlberg, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ryan Gossling are flopping right and left.
At least he would then be flip-flopping towards common sense, instead of away from it.
But even those who are accustomed to the Aintree course aren't immune to flopping at the first hurdle.
Scottish Conservative leader Annabel Goldie MSP accused the Liberal Democrats of having "turned flip-flopping into an art form".
Obama on Saturday also singled out Palin for the first time for flip-flopping on earmarks while governor of Alaska.
"I have no thoughts on officiating or flopping, " Pacers coach Frank Vogel said.
" But with all their flip-flopping and zig- zagging their real slogan should be, "Hype is on the way.
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Cancer geneticist Garth Anderson of Roswell Park Cancer Institute thinks he knows why so many cancer drugs are flopping.
The candidates were all invited to the competition, but none had stopped by to show off their flip-flopping skills.
Second, the new Torch product line has received crushingly bad reviews and is apparently flopping out of the gate.
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He removes his helmet, two large ears flopping outward as he does so.
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Mr Kerry posed a different challenge, but the Rove team managed to label him a flip-flopping liberal with some success.
The debate over nuclear energy, restarting suspended reactors and his perceived flip-flopping on the issue has also affected his popularity.
The flip-flopping sent shivers through the world markets, ratcheted up fears Europe's bailout program would fail and left Papandreou politically damaged.
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His rambunctious dogs (the two Labradoodles, Jasper and Sport, and a Bedlington terrier named Lily) take turns flopping on every conceivable surface.
On the one hand, the laws of crisis management dictate that flip-flopping is just about the worst thing you can do.
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Pretty much every other smash hit in summer 1993 (along with one expected smash that ended up flopping) was a pure star vehicle.
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Wearing his dapper tailored slacks and open-collared shirts, he celebrates goals with the joy of a child, his hair flopping over his forehead.
Without it flexibility of thinking can become diffused and the results look like a fish out of water, flopping around on a dock.
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These household and household-ish names climb the stairs and take a very public leap, sometimes landing gracefully, or at least belly-flopping for audience amusement.
But polls suggest that Americans are happy with a certain amount of flip-flopping: Mr Bush has all but destroyed the market in stubborn consistency.
She generally wears a sling to keep it from flopping around.
The right, knowing that Bush would have trouble winning on his own record, did a magnificent job at turning a war hero into a flip-flopping fraud.
Steve Kerr, working the game as an analyst for TNT, said flopping has "been apparent throughout the series but I think it got worse" during Game 4.
So, I don't know what can be worse than flipping and flopping, but I guess they found at least the way to rhetorically take it over the top.
Employer groups argue that the regulatory flip-flopping would have made it difficult for them to plug the shortage in seasonal workers at a busy time for crop production.
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