If you don't use a Mac, the beachball is your enemy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mac vs PC: South Park Style] Reference

So tomorrow I'm going to pool with Kiera, she said she's got a beachball, which is cool.    From Wordnik.com.  [blu94anjel Diary Entry] Reference

He looked exactly like a purple beachball with legs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Free Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: A Locked Planet Mystery - Mike Resnick] Reference

Blue beachball buddy bludgeoner trackdown termination tradeoff.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Jim Baen's Universe 12 - Eric Flint] Reference

We started off with a beachball-sized sun, which makes the Earth a.    From Wordnik.com.  [8/1/08: Launch Pad, day 2] Reference

The Cannibals throw Voldemort Harry's head like a Deflated beachball.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: July 10, 2005 - July 16, 2005 Archives] Reference

I no longer get the beachball when I click on the Safari Bookmarks menu.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mac OS X Defragmenting | Evil Genius Chronicles] Reference

Keeping a grip on him as porters pushed past was like squeezing a beachball.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stallion Gate]

The next day it's floating round everywhere again like an inflatable beachball.    From Wordnik.com.  [I'm Feeling the Monkey Around Your Neck Isn't Quite Listening] Reference

If the beachball represented the sun, then Earth would be a piece of steel shot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Podcast: Steampunk Panel at ReaderCon] Reference

Excuse me while I clap my flippers together and balance this beachball on my nose.    From Wordnik.com.  [APOCALYPSE NOW] Reference

The part of the entry I can still see on the open window with the spinning beachball of death.    From Wordnik.com.  [I swear the internet just knows, sometimes] Reference

Perhaps a surfboard with a bite out of it, or a beachball, or some tiny flipflops could be added?.    From Wordnik.com.  [DAA-Dum] Reference

Insanely large beer belly affixed to stumpy legs and crowned by a head that's bigger than a beachball.    From Wordnik.com.  [outfoxed Diary Entry] Reference

The beachball-sized fossil meteorite was drilled out of South Africa's 145-million-year-old Morokweng crater.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Speculist: Scary Stuff] Reference

This illustration shows the visible Milky Way galaxy surrounded by a "squashed beachball"-shaped dark matter halo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Milky Way Has a "Squashed Beachball"-Shaped Dark Matter Halo | Universe Today] Reference

O'Bannon is the one who chases the beachball alien all over the spaceship; an idea that would sort of resurface later.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-12-13] Reference

If you can tell me how to make that blessed pinwheel (or beachball) STOP on my Mac, maybe I can do those other things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Things they don't tell you about this author deal] Reference

Did snag 18' rope lights in purple, black light bars, a giant-size skull I mean size of a beachball giant-size, and other stuff.    From Wordnik.com.  [seasonal swag and "it's not for sale, m'am"] Reference

Despil, on his beachball-sized stone, was circling also, far to my right, while my own second-Mandorhigh above, was dropping quickly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blood of Amber]

It's all about what impact the beachball had on play.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Michael Owen steeled for venom on Anfield return] Reference

One by one, each app hangs with the beachball of death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discussions: Message List - root] Reference

A beachball appears when an app is not responsive to events.    From Wordnik.com.  [MacResearch - Online Community and Resource for Mac OS X in Science] Reference

Does the project behave normally besides the beachball annoyance?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discussions: Message List - root] Reference

I just keep getting the spinning beachball and have to force quit!.    From Wordnik.com.  [MacUpdate - Mac OS X] Reference

Either it gets the song or most often the beachball spins on and on.    From Wordnik.com.  [VersionTracker: Mac OS X] Reference

My mouse cursor becomes a beachball, then it reverts to a normal pointer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discussions: Message List - root] Reference

Was Darren Bent's beachball strike for Sunderland against Liverpool a valid goal?.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

The beachball would interrupt for about 8-12 seconds, a very annoying difficulty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discussions: Message List - root] Reference

Dis boy couldnt hit a beachball wit a guitar zoracat Just watched a really good movie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference

While the game was still going on, video footage of the young fan who punched the beachball on to the pitch was running on YouTube.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference