Why bother?

YB

I hope I'm not disturbing you, sir.

Upset by those shots tonight?

I make these Madison Avenue fellas unhappy.

We don't want you in here! I won't bother anyone.

Can't you see I mustn't be disturbed?

To annoy the English, what ever reason?

YB To the dismay of my mother, this is dangerous teenage fashion right there.

Yes, and we must be careful not to shock Cinderella. She's in the morning room.

She lives there too. But I don't bother with the others.

I've been batting my brains out trying to figure out about that ring and you guys had it all the time.

Although I abuse the Prince's hospitality, I feel much at home here.

If he's had a beer or two, he becomes the most annoying person on earth.

But I shouldn't have to bother my wife with that kind of triviality.

I annoy everybody, always did. But not Johnnie. You mustn't, really.

I always annoyed and irritated people with whistling, because, to be honest, my whistling is a kind of deviant behavior.

This is a 100,000 volt Tesla coil that I built in my bedroom, much to the dismay of my mother.

What really bugs my UCLA undergraduate students is, how on earth did these societies not see what they were doing?

By this time his disability has erupted into an enormous oozing tumor in his legs, which is annoying the other inmates because of its smell.

This past October Iraq once again alarmed the world by moving its elite troops southward to the Kuwaiti border.

The Bangladeshi High Commissioner to Maldives was so alarmed by the developments that he cautioned that he might have to pull out Bangladeshi workers from the Maldives.

I can't see you without disturbing my position in this comfortable chair... which I have no mind to do.

And actually, till I was 34, I always annoyed and irritated people with whistling, because, to be honest, my whistling is a kind of deviant behavior.

The group played their first gig at the Whisky a Go Go, a nightclub in West Hollywood, California, with Levine on vocals and guitar.

What really upset investors, of course, was the realization that, yes, some day untenable debt guarantees will have to be withdrawn.

Mary said nothing at all, and Mrs. Medlock looked rather discomfited by her apparent indifference, but, after taking a breath, she went on.

I think the thing that troubled the British most was that the perpetrators were not invaders, but homegrown citizens whose religious and political identities were more important to them than the people they grew up with, went to school with, worked with, shared weekends with, shared meals with.

Consequently, the return of refugees and displaced persons, which can be effected only in secure circumstances, was repeatedly postponed, much to the dismay of all concerned.

Only one review rankled enough for Darwin to recall it later Professor Samuel Haughton of Dublin claimed that all that was new in them was false, and what was true was old.

The freeze on 25 million of the leadership s assets held at Banco Delta Asia in Macau has certainly irritated the North Koreans.

But, far from being able to play the role of bridge builder between the US and Iran, India is being forced to walk a policy tightrope, and its desire to chart a neutral course has annoyed both sides.

ANKARA Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of the Orthodox Church recently said on American TV that he feels crucified in Turkey, upsetting many Turks. Sadly, his Holiness is right. Yet his complaint is not with Islam but with the secular Turkish Republic.

That decision was met with great disdain by the expelled students' colleagues, who suspended their studies and announced they will persist with their action until the council retracted its decision, which they considered a threat to all medicine students and an offense to them.

French President Jacques Chirac unguardedly speculated that an Iran with one or two nuclear bombs might not pose a serious a threat, given the possibility of nuclear retaliation his musings so startled French officials that they quickly jumped in to correct the President s comments.

This feeling has deeply troubled its leaders and filled its people with a sense that, despite all their economic progress, their proper place in the world was not only eluding them, but being denied to them by the endless criticism of the so called developed world.

So, some societies, for subtle environmental reasons, are more fragile than others. And then finally, another generalization. I'm now teaching a course at UCLA, to UCLA undergraduates, on these collapses of societies. What really bugs my UCLA undergraduate students is, how on earth did these societies not see what they were doing?