But the wound that stings most for House Democrats might very well be their forced abandonment of their "pay-go" rules, which they had generally adhered to all year.

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That may mean that enforcement stings are coming to a town near you.

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Again in September, it was several stings from Atlantic box jellyfish that ended her quest.

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Agnieszka Holland created the only Holocaust movie that simultaneously tickles the funny bone and stings the heart.

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Some people who know him well say Slim stings from the carping--and that he intends to do something about it.

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In one of the movie's funniest jibes, she submits to an excruciating beauty treatment involving bird poop, snails and scorpion stings (a fairytale botox) to give her that extra edge -- a regimen that's probably only a slight exaggeration on what Hollywood royalty routinely puts up with to keep in front of the cameras past a certain age.

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This was just the first in a near-comical procession of lurking horrors from anaconda that can digest an entire deer to the slivery candiru (parasitic toothpick fish) that can lodge, die and rot in your urethra, from puraques (eels) that can send 650 volts of electricity into their prey to bullet ants whose stings feel like being shot (all dangers we thankfully avoided).

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Given that the XPS 12 is mostly successful at being both an ultrabook and tablet, the lack of SD support stings.

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