11.  But the darn things held my interest.

12.  But then, miraculously, the darn thing worked.

13.  Dismiss the theorists and the naysaying purists and just set up the darn thing.

14.  Even Friday, it took me several tries before my hand would actually let the darn thing go into the trash.

15.  Feel how much you want your spouse to just hold the darn thing and stop throwing it back to you?

16.  Finally, I quit turning the darn thing on.

17.  For a time, nobody knew exactly what to do with the darn thing.

18.  George never asked me for one darn thing in business, politics, and certainly not the military.

19.  He gives one of his whacky, slightly fey performances, but the darn thing is, he can still pull stuff off.

20.  He throws the darn thing, he has to retrieve it.