gubbins

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This leads on to the usual behind-the-scenes gubbins, showing the director and actors hard at work, while interspersed interviews provide us with a strong idea of what it was like on set.

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  • Web sites that solicit e-mails often use this trick to keep you awake with two questions, both of which are asking whether you want to receive spam from them, one of which must be checked and the other unchecked; however, without reading them in detail you run the risk of being double spammed, hence you're kept awake and might read the rest of the gubbins the site is pushing. —  Latest News from JAVA Developer's Journal
  • Barbarash performs this trick several times, be it the machete slice on Shen's forehead, the wriggle up ghost Jason's arm or the rubber gubbins that decorates half of one ghost's face. —  DVD Times
  • The engineers have thrown all the usual green gubbins at the Colt - low rolling resistance tyres plus longer gear ratios - plus a few more goodies like a high-efficiency alternator, which only recharges the battery when it needs to.
  • My favourite part of the song (the middle 8 and guitar solo) just sounds gubbins on this version. besides 'girl from mars', the free all angels album was the only consistently great thing ash ever really did ..
  • I say subtle the tunes have a hell of a kick and the bass will often crush you ... but the arrengments are subtle in that they build gently and as the grove builds and builds you get carried off in it .... its a physical experiance really this dance music gubbins. —  Drowned In Sound // Feed
 

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