1.   Exactly much, much, better than any pokes in the eye with a sharp stick!

2.   And during the Ottoman days in the Balkans, impalement on a sharp stick was a favorite form of capital punishment.

3.   Better than a sharp stick in the eye, as the saying goes.

4.   Aeration poles, sharp sticks or even long-spiked golf shoes will work.

5.   But before it was completely dry the plasterer scratched it with a sharp stick or metal scratcher to help the second coat bond.

6.   Fry had a vision for North Texas, which included a sharp stick in the eye for the old SWC.

7.   Fujimori used an assortment of sweet carrots and rather sharp sticks on his way to a third five-year term.

8.   He knows a semiauto from a sharp stick.

9.   I hate to keep poking government purchasing in the eye with a sharp stick, but . . . what is, is.

10.   It shocked me, like somebody had poked me with a sharp stick.