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  • There's much "oomf" on the ball and Sergio Romero dashes off his line to claim.

    Argentina 1-0 Brazil - as it happened Barry Glendenning 2010

  • If he wants more oomf, then he really should be looking at an i7-based machine.

    ianmcdonald: Ask Livejournal ianmcdonald 2010

  • Then they wouldn't have had to use Shia as Harrison would have had a bit more oomf in him, and George had a little more sense pre Star Wars prequels.

    Rumor Killer: Steven Spielberg is NOT Making An E.T. Sequel | /Film 2009

  • Version 2 had a fantastic kick drum made with a pure sine wave, but Version 3 is somehow more refined, with all the oomf and slightly more class.

    Bass so deep my tummy feels funny 2004

  • Version 2 had a fantastic kick drum made with a pure sine wave, but Version 3 is somehow more refined, with all the oomf and slightly more class.

    Archive 2004-10-01 2004

  • Batman's punches land with satisfyingly brutal sound effects, and a camera that automatically zooms in and slows down time helps ramp up the perception of raw oomf in each hit.

    Digital Trends 2009

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  • #oomf is twitterese for "one of my followers"

    January 31, 2014