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• The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you […], "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
• Bacon pie? Is that a thing?
• get me a thing of apple juice at the store;  I just ate a whole thing of jelly beans
• The car looks cheap, but the thing is, I have doubts about its safety.
• “Oh Gertie it’s true. It’s all true. They’ve got a horrid gash instead of a thrilling thing.”
• Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
• you poor thing;  she's a funny old thing, but her heart's in the right place;  I met a pretty blond thing at the bar
• that's the thing: we don't know where he went;  the thing is, I don't have any money
• Oh yeah, I'm supposed to promote that vision thing.
• Don’t forget to have Gomez postpone that shooting thing.
• In accordance with Old Germanic custom men came to the thing fully armed, [...]
• The goðar seem both to have received payment of thing-fararkaup from those who stayed home and at the same time compensated those who went to the thing, and it cannot be seen whether they had any profit from these transactions.
• All Icelandic things were skap-thing, meaning that they were governed by established procedure and met at regular legally designated intevals at predetermined meeting places.