Microsoft's other attempts to put a Trojan horse in your living room, WebTV and UltimateTV, were dismal failures.

FORBES: Magazine Article

By the time it had come down to a two-horse race we were left with one bidder in the room and one on the telephone.

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The Gangnam Style dance looks rather like trying to energetically ride a horse with your underpants on fire so I contemplate leaping around my hotel room in similar vein in an attempt to tire myself out and thus fall asleep before the early morning client meeting I have just flown nearly 9, 000 kilometres to attend.

FORBES: North to the border, Gangnam-style.

The third candidate, Michael Badnarik, a computer-programmer from Texas, entered the convention as a dark horse: unlike the other two hopefuls, he had not even rented a room for his campaign headquarters.

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At some point during that strange summer of hushed conversations that stopped as soon as I entered the room, the prospect was raised that I might like to stay at a horse farm in Cornwall, on England's southwest coast.

WSJ: A Horse-Crazy Girl's Separation Vacation

Its main room is full of grizzled men supping pints of bitter, playing pool and watching a TV blaring out horse racing.

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