Pamela Adlon

Sometimes when I'm in the editing room and there's a new person there, like a music editor or a post person that I don't really know, I'm like, 'Oh, you shouldn't be in here. This is too personal - you can't watch this.' But then I'm like, hey dummy, you're about to show this to the whole world.

American Actress

Drew Barrymore

I cannot live a life where I'm deprived. I'd much rather be five, 10 pounds heavier. With my luck, I'll get myself to that perfect goal weight, and I'll get hit by a bus. Then I'll be like... looking at myself from some afterlife going, 'You idiot. You could have had that agnolotti, dummy.

Teri Garr

Directors would tell me, 'We want you to play a character a little less complex than you are.' Yeah, sure. What they mean is, 'You're playing a dummy.

Joseph Stiglitz

If I came home with a grade of A, my father would say, 'There must have been a lot of dummies in that class.

American Economist

Shy Glizzy

I ain't go on media and spazz. That's what crash dummies do. That ain't what I do.

American Musician

Adam Savage

We're not leaving here without Buster, man. Leave no crash-test dummy behind!

American Entertainer

Roger Goodell

My goal was to prove to my family I wasn't a dummy.

American Businessman

Shane Warne

Australian Athlete

Paul Thomas Anderson

American Director

Alan Ladd

American Actor

Used to refer to mannequins in stores showing how clothes look when worn.

Retail Display

'Dummy' often refers to the mannequins used in safety tests, like car crashes.

Safety Testing

Used to describe items made to appear true or genuine, usually for testing or trickery.

Deceptively Real

Refers to something used temporarily to represent a real object in simulations or plans.

Placeholder Use

A dummy acts as a soothing device for infants, not just a device to calm them.

Child Comfort

Babies often drop or lose their dummies, so they're commonly attached to clips.

Misplace Easily

Calling someone a 'dummy' can be offensive. It's an informal term and can hurt feelings.

Informal Insult

'Dummy' can be used jokingly among friends, but understanding the tone is key.

Not Always Serious

In printing, 'dummy' refers to early versions of a publication used for planning layout.

Publishing Prep

Dummies help visualize the final product, allowing for adjustments before finalizing.

Visualization Aid

 And I just think that it's interesting that the idea of using real-world crashes, which is very much something that economists think would be the right thing to do, is something that scientists don't actually, usually think -- they would rather use a laboratory, a very imperfect science of looking at the dummies,

Steven Levitt on child...

 that the dummy is talking. Movies, likewise, can convince us that the sound is coming from the actors' mouths rather than surrounding speakers. So, inwardly, we're all synesthetes, outwardly unaware of the perceptual couplings happening all the time. Cross-talk in the brain is the rule,

What color is Tuesday?...

 the materials that help us, when we're hit like this, not to hurt ourselves too much. The picture in the bottom right-hand corner there is of some crash test dummy work that I was doing. Showing how stunts work in different areas, really. And testing breakaway signpost pillars.

Steve Truglia: A leap...

 world the polar - dummy actually has a need that that is a has four ligaments in it just like a human knee it has a tibia that's consumable that's replaceable in between tests if it is to break the ribs actually use a different type of sensor than their normal dummy

Pedestrian Crash Test...

 Listen to them. Listen to yourself. What do you do? Well -- and this is slightly offensive -- sleep for dummies. Make your bedroom a haven for sleep. The first critical thing is make it as dark as you possibly can, and also make it slightly cool. Very important.

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 to protect one acre of farmland. Now a dummy hive is simply a piece of plywood which we cut into squares, paint yellow and hang in between the hives. We're basically tricking the elephants into thinking there are more beehives than there really are.

How bees can keep the...

 as long as I can remember I've always loved creating things and to be honest sometimes destroying them my parents worried a bit that I would spend my weekends reading things like motherboards for dummies and how to view

How entrepreneurship can...

 renowned wildlife cameraman brad besterlink has come to film with honeybun um you're going to see about the pace that she walks i mean funny little tummy not many people get to see a pangolin dummy

Making a Pangolin an...

 They have to say that. They had to be very cautious. But what I'm saying is, you can be delighted, because the editor of Science, who is no dummy, and both of these fairly professional --

Kary Mullis: Celebrating...

 throughout the world of testing there's always one guy that seems to take the hit in the name of safety he's a crash-test dummy at a laboratory