It's big and shiny, built in 90 days, but the contractor put it together in a way that when the first stiff wind comes, the house blows down.

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For example, Little League acknowledges there was some upset in its ban being announced five days after Christmas, making a lot of shiny new bats under the tree more valuable for pounding rocks than baseballs.

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As each colourfully painted wooden fishing boat returns from three or four days at sea, the beach rapidly transforms into a market and large metal bowls of shiny silver herring and tuna are hauled ashore by men who look like Olympic medal-winning body builders.

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