Oh, and we mean that not just figuratively, but literally as well -- they could actually be caused to burst into flames by some ne'er-do-well half-way around the globe.
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When Janet's ne'er-do-well brother (Richard Denning), who's having an affair with Madvig's sister (Bonita Granville), turns up dead, everyone assumes Madvig is the culprit.
And the seller, Jerry Dodge, was a hard-luck ne'er-do-well with a criminal record and what his friends and family describe as limited intellect and diminishing prospects.
Likewise, your wife's best friend who's into entertaining, or decorating, can't necessarily run a hotel, nor can your ne'er-do-well nephew or brother-in-law who needs a job.
Their problems are complicated by the unwanted arrival of Hannah's ne'er-do-well sister, Susan, who unexpectedly drops in from California with luggage and vague plans to stay with them indefinitely.
In "Pride and Prejudice, " after teenage Lydia Bennet runs off with the ne'er-do-well Wickham and risks her family's reputation, the heroine, Elizabeth, maintains a sarcastic yet ultimately generous tone with her flibberty-gibbet younger sister.
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French jailbreak developer and security researcher pod2g finds that every iPhone firmware revision, even iOS 6 beta 4, is susceptible to a flaw that theoretically lets a ne'er-do-well spoof the reply address of outbound SMS messages.
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The Red Dog came into being when Mark Unobsky's father warned his ne'er-do-well son that he'd better find something to do with his life, whereupon Unobsky talked his dad into buying a building in downtown Virginia City that he could get his friends to turn into a retreat from their lives as students and workers in San Francisco.
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