31.   One of the primary reasons Dempsey said the message did not get through to white women was because Democrats were as dead as a downed phone line.

32.   Otherwise, her film career will be as dead as the teen-agers in this bloody awful movie.

33.   Saundra McClain is dead on as both a bourgeois witness to a crime and a Caribbean hospital nurse.

34.   She was as dead as a stuffed mongoose.

35.   The battery was dead as a stone.

36.   The balanced budget amendment appears as dead as winter but somebody forgot to tell Sen. Trent Lott.

37.   The CB craze is as dead as the hula hoop, but now we have the Internet and the World Wide Web.

38.   The left, The Economist notwithstanding, is as dead as the dead white males its professors are still pummeling.

39.   The glittery, top-of-the keys pianism long distinctive to France is dead as the dodo.

40.   The Jets of Bill Parcells played a late-season game straight from an era that was supposedly as dead as disco.