Citations:Jell-O

English citations of Jell-O

• 1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, →ISBN:

  They’re erratic. Trying to get them to potentiate is like writing in Jell-O.

• Gregg Sapp, Building a Popular Science Library Collection for High School to Adult Learners (1995) p. 40:

  Poke a piece of Jell-O, and it will shake and roll in indignation. Imagine a very long piece of Jell-O. By poking and tapping the Jell-O at one end, you can send a wave of Jell-O vibration travelling down to the other end.

• Craig Lesley, Winterkill (1997) p. 151:

  Right now, the way the truck vibrates, your stomach shakes like Jell-O.

• Sarah Andrews, Fault Line (2002), p. 1:

  I was driving down the Fell Street ramp off Highway into San Francisco. It was like skiing down a mountain made of Jell-O.

• Maryann Reid, Sex and the Single Sister: Five Novellas (2002) p. 96:

  "Well, I don't want no man," says Nydia, while popping a screwdriver Jell-O shot in her mouth.

  ...

  We all laugh as they simulate sex sounds while eating their Jell-O shots.

• Corey Sandler, Janice Keefe Performance Appraisals That Work: Features 150 Samples for Every Situation (2005) p. 1:

  In most situations, writing a performance appraisal is like nailing Jell-O to the wall.

• Rick Moody, The Diviners: A Novel (2005) p. 448:

  "It's what we've got for now" his mother observes. "You think the Pilgrims had Jell-O? They didn't have any Jell-O. They didn't have one piece of fruit or anything. Orange slices in that Jell-O? Oranges come from Florida, probably. Florida was a swamp back then. The Pilgrims all had scurvy. Their teeth were falling out, and they never flossed."

• Kenneth Boa, John Alan Turner, The Gospel According to the Da Vinci Code: The Truth Behind the Writings of Dan Brown (2006) p. 27:

  Understanding the postmodernism that dominates our culture is about as easy as nailing Jell-O to a tree.

• 2019 October 9, Farhad Manjoo, “Dealing With China Isn’t Worth the Moral Cost”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

  Clinton famously quipped: “There’s no question China has been trying to crack down on the internet. Good luck! That’s sort of like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall.” The crowd of foreign policy experts erupted in knowing laughter.China proved them wrong. It didn’t just find a way to nail Jell-O; it became a Jell-O master carpenter.