b's

Thus the audio-animatronic Obama purses its lips to pronounce its b's and p's in a way frighteningly evocative of the real one, and raises its hands, open-palmed, while shrugging its shoulders, in a way that can only be described as Obamaesque.

Boing Boing 2009

I have to second Lisa b's comment - when I taught, too, we could tell if we were at or at day away from a full moon.

The Screaming of the Lambs kittenpie 2008

It was difficult and confusing: What's easy for the eye to distinguish (or not, because you have to mind your p's and q's, not to mention b's and d's) is not necessarily easy for the fingertips.

Wired Top Stories 2010

I think the two 'b's together are very agreeable, Merrifield says.

Brickskeller reopens tomorrow as Bier Baron Tim Carman 2010

Hell, those nasty no good s. o.b's taking our money for things like social security and medicare.

In America a Sucker Born Every Second: $546,668 Owed Per Household 2009

If you answered mostly b's: you're that hippie/alternative/artsy kid (let me guess - middle or youngest child?) that mom may have loved best, but from whom she expects the least.

Jilly Gagnon: QUIZ: What to get Mom? Just think of...YOU! 2009

In the modified model, however, the b's and c's are allowed to determine the relative importance of within - and between-group selection, rather than arbitrarily assuming that within-group selection is as strong as it can possibly be.

David Sloan Wilson: Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection IX: Anatomy of a Model (continued) 2009

I wish Edwards could catch a little media spin -- but he'll regulate the b's and they don't want that.

Edwards On Nevada Loss: I'm In This Until The End, For The Sake Of Middle Class 2009

If, as Melanie keeps warning, there's a serious body of opinion in the US aiming to jettison Israel for good, then we might be a lot closer to pork b's visions of a nuclear armageddon than we have so far imagined.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

I'd say RWB has answered part of pork b's question: whether, when it comes to the crunch, Israel will retaliate with second srike.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009