Witheford made a boozy boast to that effect while drinking with friends at a local bar one night in 1996.
"When I go out to dinner with my friends and no one stares at me or asks to be moved to a table further away from me, that's a good day, " she says.
The San Francisco-based startup has quickly grown from a way to connect with handful of friends one 144 character message at a time into a way to dip into a deep pool of real-time news and commentary.
In one moment I was at home with family and friends dreaming of studying English, of becoming a schoolteacher.
At one point, we were watching TV with our friends and we counted a Romney ad, an Obama ad, a Question 7 (a bill in Maryland), then Romney again and then Obama again.
FORBES: Election Overload: Dont Worry America, It's Almost Over
At the march, I met up with one of my friends, a diplomat from Europe who acted as an international observer during the election.
FORBES: Protest in Mexico Seeks to Overturn Election Results
At dinner with friends in a Greenwich Village restaurant, two playwrights, one tragic (Larry Pine), one comic (Wallace Shawn), offer alternate versions of the same story: Melinda (Radha Mitchell), a distraught young woman, shows up, unannounced, at a dinner party held by old friends and intrudes upon their lives.
We took one look at the industry, thought about how our friends with small businesses are effectively locked out of going mobile, and decided we were going to democratize the process for them by disrupting all three of these market characteristics.
FORBES: Levo Exclusive: Meet the Women Innovate Mobile Participants
We got our name in front of, I would estimate, about 6, 000 sets of eyeballs (figuring five teams, playing 15 games each, with about 75 players, coaches, parents, friends and relatives at each game) for one to two hours straight at a time.
FORBES: Selling Religion: Why My Church Sponsored Youth Baseball and Softball
It was this optimism that allowed leaders like the President and Speaker Tip O'Neill, who held sharply different philosophies, to sit down together at the end of difficult debates as friends, and to work with one another on complex and contentious issues like Social Security.
Since the best Indian food is still found at home, here's one final tip: Make nice with your Indian friends.
During the sales, 77% of customers shared their purchases with friends through the Facebook app and more than 1, 000 customers shared a product with at least one friend.
One of Ware's teammates and closest friends, Chane Behanan, spoke with Ware at halftime.
"At least we have each other, " said one of my five best friends with a comforting smile.
Adopting Gephardt as his mentor, Kennedy immediately began traveling across the country to appear at fund-raisers with his colleagues -- one of the fastest ways to win friends and influence people in the House.
CNN: latimes.com: Talking baseball and politics with George W. Bush
The kids will perform Tuesday at the Africa and International Friends Inaugural Ball, sharing a stage with Usher and Patti LaBelle, one of many events in their packed schedule highlighted by a luncheon gala Monday to honor the Rev.
CNN: Bringing song to Obama's inauguration, students savor fame
To look at a Friendship Page, you either have to be one of the subjects or friends with one of the subjects.
But it was only through continuous dialogue -- at the dinner table with friends who could advise us, and using calm voices in the bedroom with one another, and keeping an open mind on the couch at the therapist's office -- that we were able to find a way to make our familial cultures meet in the middle at our mutual American one.
His girlfriend at the time and one of her friends said they spend a lot of time getting high with Eric, but his girlfriend and an Army buddy said Eric was also drinking heavily.
One evening in August, Kyle Turley was at a bar in Nashville with his wife and some friends.
She was accustomed to going to the theatre with friends or with the lawyer-lover, though he preferred films, one of his limited tastes that she could at least share.
Back in 1998, I remember marveling at high school students choosing to text one another rather than make phone calls, updating their friends with their "status" and even taking pictures with their mobile phones.
Then there are employees that feel their weeks vacation can really be boiled down to just one or two days off as they had their phone with them while at the beach with their friends or family.
FORBES: Marissa Mayer's Yahoo! Mistake (It's Not What You Think)
According to the FBI account, just hours after surveillance camera photos of the two suspects were flashed around the world April 18, Tsnarnaev's friends suspected he was one of the bombers and removed the backpack along with a laptop from Tsarnaev's room at UMass Dartmouth.
应用推荐