Do you think that the financial crisis was an ant and we just needed a little ant swatter to fix this thing?

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And then there is image No. 84, a photo of a photo, tacked with a push pin next to a fly swatter, on a wall of what looks to be a kitchen.

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He watched her as she moved around the room, his eyes tracking her as if she were a fly and he was waiting for the right moment to bring down his swatter.

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Los Angeles (CNN) -- Ryan Seacrest became the latest celebrity targeted by a "swatter" when a hoax 911 call reported armed men were shooting their way into the "American Idol" host's home Wednesday.

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Though the U.K. version was printed in broadsheet format for 200 years, it switched to compact size in 2004, making it handier for reading on trains and buses--but more difficult to roll up for use as a fly-swatter.

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Connors straddled a magnificent run of tennis history, playing against Laver, Rosewall, Newcombe, Ashe, McEnroe, Borg, Becker, and Lendl, among others a period of dynamic revolution in on-court strategy and technology (Connors, of course, long holding out with his trusty fly-swatter, the Wilson T-2000).

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