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In colliding with a new type of animal, a chemical that might once have served to fuddle the wits of pests has been transformed into a glittering lure.

“Any objective person will see that some U.S. politicians have been peddling lies that discredit China's anti-epidemic efforts to fuddle people's minds and deflect attention from the fact that they fell short of fulfilling their own anti-epidemic responsibilities,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said Thursday.

But Selby got Fu in a fuddle on the final red and went on to take a four-frame advantage at 6-2.

They could not hear him at the high table—he was too far away in Time to be able to reach across the room—but everybody knew what the cracked voice was singing and everybody loved it This is what he sang: “Whe-an/Wold King-Cole/was a /wakkin doon-t’street, H-e /saw a-lovely laid-y a /steppin-in-a-puddle. / She-a /lifted hup-er-skeat/' For to / Hop acrorst ter middle, / An ee /saw her /an-keL Wasn’t that a fuddle? / Ee could’emt elp it, /ee Ad to.”

Who's got time to fuddle about with particulars when there's a nutter wot "must be stopped… AND NOW"?