Popular names sometimes reflect characters in pop culture, style icons or plain old demographic changes.
Consider refinishing the walls in sheetrock, diamond plate metal or plain corrugated sheet metal.
The same dough makes attractive small cakes in fancy shapes, gaily decorated or plain.
As a result, approaching workers about unpleasant subjects such as insubordination, poor performance or plain bad behavior can be difficult.
There is walnut or plain, and special products for dieters and diabetics, but most choose the customary pistachio: a succulent, syrupy cube of pastry, sprinkled with the green nuts.
Otherwise, the brain will be too busy ensuring its survival to accept any other solution, no matter how elegant, right, logical, or plain old commonsensical it may seem to the rest of us.
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"We remain concerned about proposals pending in several countries that would give public agencies greater power to demand access to encrypted keys or plain text, " David Sobel, EPIC general counsel, said Monday in a phone interview.
The Social Democrats are still well ahead, but for the first time in two years they are losing ground, thanks to a new liberal-conservative party that calls itself the Civic Platform, or plain Platform, which is bidding spiritedly for the middle ground.
Those who rebel are lesser fans or just plain jealous or infected with some other malady in need of an exorcism.
This would hit people who saved in Roth IRAs or just plain old saving (not IRA or 401k).
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Bad vintages of Bordeaux were really bad in those days: tonsil threatening or just plain watery.
Many people may think this next statement to be idealistic, naive or just plain wrong.
Do you have colleagues who are curt, callous, or just plain cold toward you?
But this time, Marquette kept turning the ball over, seeing its shots blocked or just plain missing.
In a social context, it may be seen as a sign of romantic interest, or just plain creepy.
Conservative principles had somehow been "lost, distorted or just plain hijacked and it's time to seize them back".
And waaaay ahead of statements based on questionable research or just plain opinions.
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They're exhausted, they're chilly, sometimes they're frightened or frustrated or just plain overwhelmed.
They have either been tied up in regulatory purgatory, court actions or just plain delayed under heavy pressure from Wall Steet.
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The club has thrown away hundreds of millions of dollars on bad contracts for players past their prime or just plain mediocre.
Thus Obama is either morally wrong, or just plain fails to understand.
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In some hands, the effect can be kitsch or just plain crass.
Besides widening the budget deficit, tax expenditures encourage behavior that likely would have occurred anyway or just plain doesn't make good economic sense.
Call it faith, karma, good juju or just plain luck, but we have all hoped for just a little help in these difficult times.
The government is not blaming FirstGroup, but implicit in the minister's statement is that FirstGroup's risk projections were either over-ambitious or just plain wrong.
Their hope: that they can catch consumers' fancy with a cheaper, smaller or just plain better competitor before Apple launches the iPhone in June.
Call me crazy or just plain unhinged, but I always looked forward to squeezing the last bit of cake heaven from the doughy and sugary paper.
Whether it is black swans, seagulls or just plain springtime robins, it seems to me that the prudent investors should remain net long of this market.
Anyone who claims to be an 'expert' on Africa - as if it were a homogenous region where simple rules apply - is either arrogant or just plain silly.
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