The strongmen, rather than jerk it overhead (the easiest part of the lift), had to raise it to their chest, flip it up to shoulder height, then drop it and repeat the lift as often as possible in ninety seconds.
Sure, we argue with others about why our team is better, but at the end of it all, this is normally a peaceful exchange and personal attacks are left out unless you're a jerk who takes it all too seriously.
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Despite the obvious knee-jerk reaction regarding the Maps debacle, it's actually interesting that this particular scenario is yet another example of humans having extraordinarily short-term memories.
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When Santa leaves and the door closes, he could run over and jerk on the string a few times so it sounds like the reindeer are on the roof at the back of the house.
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When it works, this silly symphony of jerk pans and jump cuts can be both authentically experiential and conceptually playful, as in a breathtaking rescue from an apartment building listing like the Tower of Pisa.
What we don't want is a knee-jerk, blanket policy of decommissioning just because someone thinks it is a good idea without the evidence to support the move.
Lisandro's arrival in France's culinary capital was no knee-jerk reaction to the departure of the home-grown Benzema - it was a transfer two years in the making.
For many, the knee-jerk response has been to speak against women travelling alone, labelling it as shocking or unwise, especially in more conservative cultures where Western women travelling alone can face unjust stereotypes regarding promiscuity.
We turned the acceleration on and the "jerk" down, so things would be a little less aggressive -- it also dawned on us that the table we were running it on might not have been a stable enough foundation, itself quaking during printing.
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It's tempting to try to explain Murtha's objections as knee-jerk opposition to the US military mission, or, perhaps, to the relative lack of Information Operations money being "invested" in the congressman's district.
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Mr. TED WEISBERG (President, Seaport Securities): Well, it's characterized with a lot of volatility, unfortunately most of it on the down side though the markets did open dramatically lower - sort of a knee-jerk reaction, I think, to both Asia and Europe.
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