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Link dick cheney to patrick leahy on the senate floor. and i bet every one of you whining about the naughty words the bloggers write, laughed uproariously at that one. lawdy, lawdy, miss scarlett, bring me the smelling salts. — linda
Easing Off Online Obscenities - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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We disagree on much, but lawdy, how interesting the prandial discussion would be.
The War of Jenkins R `s Newmania 2007
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Everyone knows you can get tangled up in them internets tubes ... and all those sex perverts are there, too ... lawdy, who knows what them Snowpeeps will ask!!!!!
Quote Of The Day 2009
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And I think that helped with breaking that stereotype, because she really could have been, “Oh, lawdy!”
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And lawdy mercy I certainly understand about the haranguers.
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And just last week on NPR the commentator was talking about diagramming sentences and lawdy, that brought me back!
With Penguin's Viking Studio! Jessica Hagy 2007
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Her eyes bulged and became as large as saucers as she exclaimed: Lawdy, lawdy, Missuh Bissage, you done gotsa baddie biggsah broddah, you does!
Do you worry about what black people will think if Barack Obama loses? Ann Althouse 2008
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Like....that OTHER guy will get the credit and lawdy forbid...the coveted AWARD.
Archive 2008-09-01 The Verger 2008
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Like....that OTHER guy will get the credit and lawdy forbid...the coveted AWARD.
Integration in the Ad World The Verger 2008
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O lawdy, dat remidnns me uv me whin ai wuz yunger…. tuk mi awls deeze yeers 2 loosun up a tad!
HAPPY CHAIR - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
skipvia commented on the word lawdy
As in the exclamation "lawdy me!" (See also lawsy.)
Also from the title of the great Lloyd Price tune "Lawdy Miss Clawdy."
October 7, 2007