But in comedy it's like a game of pick-up sticks or something."

"Sure you could, but humans are lousy at pick-up sticks.

I thought the strap would break, and arrows would be all over the floor like pick-up sticks.

"Or you could see segments of light beams, shafts falling to the ground, like pick-up sticks.

He cast them aside and they rattled to a stop by the overturned stool like so many meaningless pick-up sticks.

They finished cleaning up and spent the rest of the evening drinking herbal tea, playing pick-up sticks, and talking by the fire.

The hillside gave a good view of a fire burn where tree trunks lay strewn like a pup's pick-up sticks.

The blue lines faded, leaving only pale yellow ones, crisscrossing the screen like counters in a giant game of pick-up sticks.

And it was true that Torrey, though he had short fingers-and now only nine of them-had a light touch with pick-up sticks.

Haida pick-up sticks exist in two sorts.

Pick-up sticks, pick-a-stick, jackstraws, or spillikins is a game of physical and mental skill.

It's like pick-up sticks or legos or something'.

Most of the logs that lay crisscrossed like pick-up sticks were enormous--much too big for him to handle alone.

Then they piled up the bars in great heaps that looked as casually arranged as tossed pick-up sticks.

Not a breeze stirred in the fields, where the dry stalks of harvested corn and sunflowers lay like scattered pick-up sticks.

"Cardboard and pick-up sticks.

But you'll do very well," he smiled, "-though not at pick-up sticks, unless you find another sick-eyed man to play against."

Add rulers, and the results can evoke a game of pick-up sticks gone wild, or a Pollock drip painting parsed by a mad geometry teacher.

In 1936 it was brought from Hungary to the USA and was mostly called pick-up sticks.

The practice of using sticks in Chien Tung may be related to the game of pick-up sticks played today.

Some Haida First Nation pick-up sticks are plain maple wood; they may also be decorated with abalone shell and copper.

"They're playing a giant game of pick-up sticks, so we have to plan out what thing gets moved next to avoid a secondary collapse," Mr. Sekins said.

And through ignorance or willfulness, their songs use melodies that stop, start and jump around; "Mesopotamia" piles up short, asymmetrical motifs like pick-up sticks.

AGES 9 TO 14 - These children can enjoy team sports and games that demand increased dexterity such as pick-up sticks and marbles.

Another, in which straight lines of red, yellow and blue are isolated within the small squares of a grid, has the plebeian energy of a game of pick-up sticks.

But the other day, they pretty much pulled up stakes.

So we might as well pull up stakes and head out.

Until he pulled up stakes, moved out here, and your story came along, that is.

Not that many are willing to pull up stakes and move here.

We'd lose a year, maybe more, if we had to pull up stakes now.

The boys at the bar thought he might be getting ready to pull up stakes.

Then they rested some more, five or six days, and began to pull up stakes.

Tomorrow well pull up stakes and see what is in the next valley.

Then we'll pull up stakes and depart for the north.

The Church caravan had pulled up stakes and left town by the next morning.

That's why I have to pull up stakes and move every ten or fifteen years.

They don't have the resources to pull up stakes and move.

The last time the industry was forced to move, it also pulled up stakes in a hurry.

Finally she pulled up stakes and headed for California to build a successful television career.

Why not pull up stakes and report the truth from a safer location?

You made me pull up stakes an' head out.

The British lost their taste for empire building and quickly pulled up stakes.

I've even been asked by a few to pull up stakes in Golden and move on."

For its part, Kodak is not about to pull up stakes anytime soon.

"You're sure that they won't just pull up stakes fast and light out of here before we can do anything?"

Pageant officials pulled up stakes and immediately took the show to London.

So today we pull up stakes and we set off to the south.

The way a circus pulls up stakes and pitches its big top in the next town.

We've got our people secured and are pulling up stakes here."

To be sure, foreign companies are not simply pulling up stakes in the United States.

But the other day, they pretty much pulled up stakes.

People pick up stakes and move on every two or three years.

The next day we picked up stakes and moved on.

So we might as well pull up stakes and head out.

Until he pulled up stakes, moved out here, and your story came along, that is.

Not that many are willing to pull up stakes and move here.

I'm told they kept trying to pick up stakes and go elsewhere.

We'd lose a year, maybe more, if we had to pull up stakes now.

The boys at the bar thought he might be getting ready to pull up stakes.

Then they rested some more, five or six days, and began to pull up stakes.

Tomorrow well pull up stakes and see what is in the next valley.

Then we'll pull up stakes and depart for the north.

The Church caravan had pulled up stakes and left town by the next morning.

That's why I have to pull up stakes and move every ten or fifteen years.

They don't have the resources to pull up stakes and move.

The last time the industry was forced to move, it also pulled up stakes in a hurry.

Finally she pulled up stakes and headed for California to build a successful television career.

Why not pull up stakes and report the truth from a safer location?

You made me pull up stakes an' head out.

The British lost their taste for empire building and quickly pulled up stakes.

I've even been asked by a few to pull up stakes in Golden and move on."

For its part, Kodak is not about to pull up stakes anytime soon.

"You're sure that they won't just pull up stakes fast and light out of here before we can do anything?"

Pageant officials pulled up stakes and immediately took the show to London.

So today we pull up stakes and we set off to the south.