Though it's a holiday for many, there's a sense of a whole city playing hooky.
So give yourself permission to play hooky from the usual and bring back a fresh perspective.
Short story about a man who plays hooky from work and lies to his boss about his baby dying.
ABSTRACT:Short story about a man who plays hooky from work and lies to his boss about his baby dying.
It was only a scratch, said Mr. Shaw, adding that his son was just trying to "play hooky" from class.
Thirty-three percent of employees played hooky last year and, rather than come clean with their bosses, they pretended to be sick.
The next track, "Crystalised, " employs a familiar strategy: hooky ostinato riff embellished with a few subtle effects, leading to a soft vocal.
"I would like to see Hooky play 10 personally - I'd put Jamie Roberts and Jonathan Davies at centre, " Devereux told Scrum V Radio.
You would need an extensive amount of hooky-hairs to capture them.
But what started as one day of hooky, so that she could walk in a Calvin Klein show, grew into long absences for international travel.
Real Pain Supernova is both harsh and hooky, though a lot of the time it sounds like the album is slightly skewed towards the former.
And with help from West, Blue Collar is full of big, hooky beats with soul samples and rippling guitars, as well as some less typical hip-hop fair.
Nine percent of workers who played hooky wanted to skip a meeting, spend time working on an overdue project or avoid the wrath of a boss or colleague.
In all of its two and a half minutes, "Silver Moon" finds singer Eric Earley guiding the band through a hooky chorus, backed by the infectious sounds of a harmonica.
By next year, phones that act as digital cameras will be on the market, allowing users to video-conference in traffic jams, type letters to their boss from Bali, and basically play hooky from the office while still working.
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Fountains of Wayne's massively hooky power-pop songs have made it a critical darling, landed the group in the Top 40 (for 2003's ubiquitous "Stacy's Mom"), and even spawned one of the most spot-on musical commentaries in recent years: Robbie Fulks' "Fountains of Wayne Hotline" lays the band's formulas bare in hilarious fashion.
Of the surveyed workers asked to explain their excuse for playing hooky, 30 percent said they simply needed to relax, 22 percent wanted to catch up on sleep, 14 percent wanted to take care of some personal errands, and 9 percent wanted to miss a meeting or finagle some extra time for an overdue project.
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