It's true. Well, stories have to come from someplace, yes? Anyway, this blind man did pay a visit and even spent the night. But there all similarities end. The rest of the story was cobbled up from this and that, naturally."

I think of past nighttime souvenirs (memories): underground swing dancing; cooking cobbled-up meals like quesadillas; breaking into Sacré-Coeur's step-lawn ...

In the old days, parents cobbled up homemade costumes for their Little ones.

Clauser's offering was a bulbous-bowed design that is the least radical of a whole series of wonderful ideas he has cobbled up on his computer.

It looks like a stretch model of the space shuttle cobbled up out of junkyard parts.

On Thursday night, a New Jersey man named David L. Smith was arrested and charged with spreading the virus. New Jersey authorities said he was definitely not "VicodinES,'' but added that investigators think he cobbled up Melissa from a witches' brew of different viruses, one of which came from VicodinES. Hence, apparently, the telltale GUIDs said everything about the original document and less about its later permutations. New Jersey authorities said "Melissa" was apparently a reference to a topless dancer from Florida.

Bush has said he looked into Russian leader Vladimir Putin's soul and found a friend in the man he nicknamed "Pootie-poot." Apparently, if this conference is any guide, Bush found in Putin a model for authoritarianism. But even the old KGB chief couldn't have cobbled up such an absolutely meaningless discussion of the serious economic problems this country faces.

"I'm concerned about how they've cobbled up history."

Certainly it is the case that elsewhere in the world, as well as elsewhere in time, mankind has been content to fashion written languages in the form of pictographs, hieroglyphs and the like; the age-old use in Western Europe of words cobbled up out of alphabets -- words that are mere tokens, valueless unless they happen to retain some onomatopoeic ... [ Read More (1.3k in body) ]