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"Now we can stay until 4pm twiddling our thumbs, without fish."

"The world is watching while American lawmakers twiddle their thumbs," he added.

Kudos to them, too, for re-energizing voters while so many forlorn Democratic leaders twiddle their thumbs and nurse the hangover of defeat.

Abrasive, shallow and giddily watchable, her Wow Platinum — what a name! — twiddles her clawed fingers like a femme fatale dead certain she can charm her way to the top.

Yet, Eggers was not one to sit and twiddle his thumbs.