• His brutish family, usually happy to enjoy the fruits of his thievery marmalade and a birthday cake filched from someone's shopping bag turf him out.

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  • As in the film, Maya's CIA colleague in Khost, Afghanistan, did bake a birthday cake for a top al Qaeda informant who was coming into their base, says Mr. Boal.

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  • For instance, it asks you to slide a button along the bottom of a birthday cake to determine your age, or to rate your pain on a scale of happy green to angry red.

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  • Von Hirsch and her Greece-based partner, Evi Aidonopoulou, handle guest requests: filling each room with specific flowers, arranging a birthday cake or a boat to dinner on Mykonos, flying in food, finding the perfect guides, drivers, butlers--you get the idea.

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  • As plant genetics research advances, however, industry scientists hope that it will be possible to breed cottonseed that produces superior flour, high-quality lint, and oil, so that almost every ingredient in a birthday cake can be produced with the leftovers from Nelson's cotton production.

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  • Being questioned by Michael Borrelli QC, representing William Connors, Mr Gourlay told the court he felt like he was "part of the family" and was given a birthday cake and a party in an Irish club and on another occasion TV was bought for him.

    BBC: Connors trial: Worker 'would have been found if he left'

  • The man makes French toast and waffles and ham and eggs and pancakes and cereal and Pop-Tarts and brownies and hot dogs and hamburgers and baked Alaska and a birthday cake in the shape of a castle and pours glasses of milk and orange juice and coffee and Tang and Kool-Aid and water and puts ice in all of the glasses.

    NEWYORKER: The TV

  • An actual iPad does appear in the episode, and with a working birthday cake app where you can apparently blow on the screen to extinguish the virtual candles (which may be an iPad version of this iPhone app).

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  • "You have to think of a large stone birthday cake, " Haas says with an almost fatherly pride.

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  • Did you employee turn down a piece of birthday cake, even though it was his birthday?

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  • The business card idea makes Schacht wonder whether the tiny balls might be added to a birthday card to reveal a surprise message when the card is held over birthday-cake candles.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • So people, a lot of times, if they want to eat chocolate-chip cookies or birthday cake, they have a recipe book that tells them how to do that, where they might not have a recipe book for the master cleanse diet, or for Ratatouille, for that matter.

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  • He will celebrate his 23rd birthday on 11 January with a small cake he packed before leaving home and will return to the UK on 20 January.

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  • Chavez announced last night in Venezuela or yesterday afternoon that he was coming here to celebrate Fidel's 80th birthday, to wish him the best, to bring him a nice cake.

    NPR: Castro Is Optimistic, Yet Warns of 'Adverse News'

  • "I went to Whole Foods because I needed a cake and groceries, and it was my daughter's 23rd birthday, " she says.

    NPR: As Food Prices Rise, There's No Dancing in the Aisles

  • His 80th birthday party, a grand picnic in the middle of the Champ de Mars, featured a cake depicting scenes from his life: a ten-metre tower of ganache and meringue decked in blown sugar, spun sugar and royal icing.

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