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If Turner intended to scare the daylights out of members in order to grease that through, it didn’t work: Republicans pulled the measure from the agenda on Wednesday afternoon, because the House simply cannot pass any legislation.

At the most wonderful time of the year, there is one tradition that John Maguire remembers fondly: his Liverpudlian grandmother trying to scare the daylights out of him.

“It may be because we haven’t notified enough people to scare the daylights out of them,” said state Sen. Curtis King, R-Yakima.

Even at a distance, they were enough to scare the daylights out of the soldiers.

Momo, a sculpture of a birdlike creature with bulging eyes and a thin hint of a smile, is the latest internet sensation to scare the daylights out of parents.