He annoyed me the way I used to annoy my old man.

NEWYORKER: The Tree Line, Kansas, 1934

When it comes to guerrilla marketing, I sat at the feet and very early in my career on the lap of a master: my old man.

FORBES: Fathers and Sons

Crespo might need a trawl around the Capital's second-hand record shops for his final acquisition - a copy of the Lonnie Donegan classic, My Old Man's A Dustman.

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And with my 70 year old old man, I watch Chevy Chase in Christmas Vacation.

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This was my crystalline link: the old man to Ilgauskas to Dostoevsky to Russia.

NEWYORKER: Midnight in Dostoevsky

Now I was standing before a man who resembled my old reflection almost exactly but who had been changed in some manner, the way a lawn under a cloudy sky changes when the sun comes out.

NEWYORKER: Miracle Polish

But that "excuse me" caught my attention, and the sight of an old man steadying himself as he arose to speak.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Gone Tomorrow'

"I've been training harder, there were a few things in my batting that I needed to control initially when I go into my innings, " said the 26-year-old, whose man of the match performances have earned him two motorcycles in four days.

BBC: Pietersen rues missed opportunity

One day, I found myself sitting in the bar in the Hotel Claridge with a little old man called Juan Carlos Borges, who was astonished at my interest in his work and at its success in Brazil, given that it had been years since he had published one of his brief botanical poems.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Borges and the Eternal Orangutans'

At 11 p.m. the two pulled up at a dark house with a dirt floor and no electricity--"a place I wouldn't even put my dog, " Parisi recalls. (Make that 13 dogs, all dachshunds.) A wrinkled old man came shuffling toward Parisi in the candlelight.

FORBES: That's Amore