Then it was time for the Electric Kool-Aid X Server Test, the moment of truth.
"The moment of truth has arrived, " Reza Shah Pahlavi said at Washington's National Press Club.
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Mr. Jerome says the moment of truth has arrived for the real Toaster.
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If the share price activity is anything to go by the moment of truth is a small vote against Samsung so far.
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Research shows that the moment of truth the moment your company first makes meaningful contact with a customer is moving farther and farther along the sales funnel.
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But at the moment of truth, when arrests should have been made, the rescued girls vanished into a crowd of madams gathered on the street.
When the moment of truth arrived, was Crowley sufficiently cowed?
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The moment of truth is only a week away.
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When the moment of truth arrived, it was delectable, a perfectly al dente, subtly flavored pasta (with mussels and squid, it turned out) dressed, not drowned, in a piquant, bottarga-laced tomato sauce.
Whether it's the European central bank lending trillions to European banks, or a third bout of quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve, it feels, to many, like these institutions are simply kicking the can down the road - deferring the moment of truth.
The moment of truth, longed for and dreaded, did not come last Monday, when a question-and-answer session, featuring both candidates, was broadcast simultaneously all over the country by all the television and radio networks, as a non-commercial public service, and was watched by it is hoped some 80 million people.
As Republican elected officials hoping to save their political party from going the way of the dinosaur race to grab as much credit as possible for a newly minted immigration reform effort designed to create a pathway to citizenship for some 11 million people illegally in the United States, the moment of truth for the GOP-Tea Party alliance may now be at hand.
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The steps end with the Ultimate Moment of Truth, which is when people share their experience with the brand or product.
The rest is about closing the gap and getting in front of everything to lead customers on their journey with experience at the forefront of everything in every moment of truth.
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It just so happens that Worth's Second Empire silhouette a tightly corseted hourglass with a huge hemisphere of skirt is what women were wearing when a new breed of painters emerged, artists pursuing the truth of the fleeting moment even if it meant crossing moral boundaries or breaking with the norms of pictorial representation.
With Mr Switon threatening self-immolation on one side and the world's Jewish community looking on from the other, the Polish church faces a moment of truth.
Too bad, then, for any Malaysians who have a moment of truth on the subway, especially if the faith to which they are called happens not to be Islam.
With luck, that will bring its own positive dynamic, and eurozone politicians will not face another "moment of truth" in the financial markets.
However, at the heart of this is an economic truth, assuming for a moment that shopping is indeed for some set of the population a social activity rather than a hunt for desirables.
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What is the experience we want people to have in every moment of truth, before, during, and after each transaction or engagement?
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That is the truth of... what is actually under debate at the moment.
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People hate it when politicians look as though they are speaking not an approximation of the truth as they see it, but something that suits them at that moment.
With energy, the kernel of truth is that worldwide supply and demand for oil is roughly in balance for the moment.
My iPhone camera moment of truth happened in Israel, when my iPhone 4S captured an incredibly detailed photograph of the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem.
For a moment, your mind slips to the hidden truth that he perceives that you stand on a stage of lies, sandwiched between a trophy of success and a platform of cunning deceit.
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