It was one of the early iPhone applications that redefined the smart phone as more than just a geeky way to store contacts: it can also gross out your friends.
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What's familiar about the film is the grunge concatenation of firepower, body count and gross-out abuse of all-too-tender flesh.
Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black), king of the gross-out comedies, who wants to show he's more than the sum of his belches.
He'll share broad details about the process with customers but likes to keep some mystery to the process and steer clear of the gross-out factor.
It will have to throw gross margins out of the window.
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All this is in the tradition of Judd Apatow, whose films like "Knocked Up" and "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" melded gross-out humor with emotional and moral themes.
The film, which is a series of gross-out comedy skits from different directors, boasts an ensemble cast that includes Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet and Emma Stone.
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The hilarious film offers a younger skew on what must be labeled the Apatow house brand of touchy-feely sex comedy -- in other words, more extreme profanity and juvenile gross-out gags.
The movie, which also stars Stiller as struggling action star Tugg Speedman and Jack Black as gross-out king Jeff Portnoy, features some testy altercations between Downey's Lazarus and Jackson's Chino.
Mockery of action heroes, Method actors and gross-out comedians?
Yes, the web-video channel that seemed to offer an unlimited range of gross-out, poorly thought-out, and should-be-tossed-out content this week shared in real-time, not on recorded video with perhaps millions of people a profoundly important exercise in American democracy.
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The film was always going to be predictable (that is part of its appeal), yet it feels too panicky to be stylish, and surprisingly tasteless: who could have foreseen that its humor would rely on a gastric gross-out?
The occasional piercing got in the way, and there was a gross-out or two when eager consumers forgot to change screens, but it was a big step forward from last year's Tongueii, which failed to account for static electricity, fusion and two of Fermi's laws.
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But add in critically acclaimed box-office winners The Wedding Crashers and The 40-Year-Old Virgin and figure that one or two deserving underdogs such as The Squid and the Whale or the highbrow gross-out documentary The Aristocrats sneak in, and you've got a category worth watching.
If they are lucky, they eke out gross profit margins between 20% and 30%.
Intel also said it will crank out gross margins of 55% to 65% for the foreseeable future.
For sovereign bonds to consider, gross specifically points out Mexico, Italy, and Brazil.
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Many practitioners had expressed concern about the requirement to report gross receipts paid out without regard to chargebacks, fees or other adjustments with many worried that such discrepancies would raise flags at IRS. Future guidance on this issue is expected to be released.
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In 2007 we expected out our gross debt in 2010 would be 42.5% of GDP in 2010.
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Dave Roberts over at Grist points out the gross inefficiencies built into our current energy delivery systems.
Hard as it may be to imagine, one day Mr Gross might just run out of inspired notions.
In other countries, value-added taxes are taken out of gross box-office receipts, before the money is divided between studios and theaters.
Palladium saw gross shorts fall by 58% since mid-August, but she pointed out that while platinum gross longs increased 12%, palladium gross longs have fallen by 5%.
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One whole percentage point has been taken out of the gross profit on moneylending.
Gross' ban rules him out of next weekend's Heineken Cup clash against Perpignan, as well as important league games.
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Investor risk appetite has retreated Tuesday in the wake of some fresh, anemic gross domestic product figures coming out of the European Union.
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Investor risk appetite retreated Tuesday in the wake of some fresh, anemic gross domestic product figures coming out of the European Union, and on an uninspired reaction to the results of a meeting between French and German leaders regarding the EU debt crisis.
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While Apple continues to increase iPhone sales and gain more smartphone market share, its gross margin is something to watch out for.
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