I have been playing bridge since early 1953 . I am far from being a whiz but really enjoy random rubber bridge . I have not been a stick in the mud when it comes to learn more updated methods.
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"A lot of young adult chimpanzees have been born in captivity, and a huge number have never walked on grass, climbed a tree or poked a stick in the mud, " said Linda Brent, a behavioral primatologist and Chimp Haven's president.
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"I think a real purist might be a stick in the mud, " says Bruce Crawford, a local film historian . " I think for some purists it may be a problem, but for the majority of people they think it's great ."
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Gibson, who left " Chicago Hope " to play the uptight Greg, is certainly convincing as a stick in the mud, but for a guy who marries a hippie on the spur of the moment, he doesn't seem to exhibit much feeling for her.
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Describing nature as a large vessel that the painter sails beside in a small canoe, he wrote that if the painter " ever thinks he can sail another fashion from nature or make a better shaped boat, he'll capsize or stick in the mud ."
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Not sure whether my view accords with other sticks-in-the-mud's opinions . ( I'm not entirely sure about the hyphenation of either " right of way " or " stick in the mud ", but I doubt that would affect the pluralisation . )-- talk ) 06 : 45, 21 February 2008 ( UTC)
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:: : : : : : : : * Perhaps if you'd stop spending so much effort trying to determine how much of a jerk or " stick in the mud " I and others are being, perhaps you'd notice that I've outright offered to engage in the community discussion which you apparently seek " right here ".
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These shift from a defense of Native American rights in " Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, " to love gone awry ( " Stick in the Mud " ), to comic relief ( " I thought I saw Nick Cave down at the laundromat, " he sings in " Poor Little Fish " ), all the way to suicide in " Think About It ."
