91.   How the public could turn on an athlete as popular as Majerle was.

92.   If opera were as popular as guns and naked women, he says, Nova would show opera.

93.   In a move that might make online auction sites as popular as anything on the Internet, Compaq Computer will start putting eBay icons on its PC desktops.

94.   Immensely popular as a broadcaster, Bob Brenly is currently a public piqata.

95.   In a sport where strength is critical to success at most positions, creatine is almost as popular as steak.

96.   In his homeland, the onetime member of teeny-bop pop act Take That is about as popular as the Spice Girls.

97.   In Massachusetts, it hasproved about as popular as an outbreak of influenza.

98.   In election years, flirting with various candidacies is about as popular as skiing in the Granite State.

99.   In the defense ministry, initial indications were that Netanyahu intended to offer it to Yitzhak Mordechai, a recently retired general who was popular as Northern Commander.

100.   In the key primary state of New Hampshire, Kerry is about as popular as the income tax.