Sure, the boots still needed to be taken to the cobbler, but a night of mortification was turned around by one Lady Macguyver.
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Bastiat points out the fallacy: You've forgotten that the money spent on the window is money the shopkeeper might otherwise have spent at the cobbler.
Again, you will have to try on the shoe to show the cobbler how tight the original elastic was, so the repair can be made accurately.
The cobbler however, which to be clear, is a dish in which a fruit filling is topped with spoonfuls of a loose scone-like or biscuit topping and baked so that the top resembles golden cobblestones, was born right here on American shores.
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Try the choco Spamalicious popsicle from Ono Pops, Spam cheesecake from Hawaiian Cheesecakes or the Spam and apple cobbler from the Hard Rock Cafe.
That intelligence began at the Spanish frontier, at Irun, where a cobbler sat in the doorway of his shop and counted the French battalions coming in and the survivors going out.
Today, President Obama pardoned Cobbler, the National Thanksgiving Turkey, in a ceremony at the White House.
There was no cobbler to count the French battalions crossing the frontier towards Brussels in 1815.
Although Cobbler was selected for the title of National Thanksgiving Turkey, both he and his alternate, Gobbler, received a pardon.
Mr Urban expands his hero's achievements with some first-class descriptions of the campaign and its battles, but he might have done better to have remembered that patient cobbler in Irun and written a book describing the whole intelligence apparatus available to Wellington.
And, as always, if for some reason Cobbler cannot fulfill his duties as the Official White House Turkey, Gobbler will be waiting in the wings.
Or the whole thing could be so dense that the pie begins to resemble an upside-down cobbler.
Born on the same day on a farm in Rockingham Country, Virginia, Cobbler and Gobbler may look alike, but they're no birds of a feather.
Cobbler craves cranberries, is known for his strut, and enjoys the musical stylings of Carly Simon.
And with that I think we are going to bestow the official pardon on -- wait, which -- is he Gobbler or Cobbler?
Strolling along the narrow street, you may glimpse a chandelier maker tinkering with a frozen crystal fountain, a cobbler fetching moulds from a shelf, or a bookbinder buried in rows of bookshelves, his head bowed as he works at his desk.
Born in Germany where his father was a cobbler, Theodore (usually known as Ted) Levitt (1925-2006) emigrated to the United States with his parents at the age of ten.
And this November, I could not agree more. (Laughter.) So in the spirit of the season, I have one more gift to give, and it goes to a pair of turkeys named Cobbler and Gobbler.
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