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  • Welcome to America home of the prententious self absorbed person who is more worried about their pocketbook than helping out people who are less fortunate and in need.

    Doctors' group endorses Senate health care bill 2009

  • A saving grace was its humor was not the 'self prententious' and 'self conscious' humor that one finds in Christopher Moore; the narrative does not need to stop each time you make a joke (Jesus took a whiz, LOL) so you can make sure I get the joke.

    Why I Stopped Reading: The Gone Away World 2010

  • Now 2500 people a day are moving out of California, San Diego is an over prententious, sprawling bedroom community, Convair is gone, and, if Obama has his way, the Navy may leave too.

    San Diego discovers… 2010

  • I found it a weee bit prententious and ultimately dull-dull-dull.

    Is That Legal?: Building A Better Onion? 2006

  • Hope he was not too prententious as to suggest such a venue for a first date would lead me to believe that he would be.

    Ritz 2007

  • Taiwan is what's left of the ROC, and you should all be danm proud of it, instead of letting prententious DPP politicians brainwash you into thinking that they created all of this by being part of the same party that once stood for something.

    Sunday, April 23, 2006, Taiwan Blog Round Up Michael Turton 2006

  • How can these prententious progressives, Judases to the revolutionary cause, running for the puppet senate ignore the warnings and exposés on "Villaroyo", that is, the outgoing fascist, puppet and bureaucrat capitalist Arroyo is secretly supporting Villar's candidacy?

    Jakarta IMC Newswire 2010

  • Call them boring and prententious all you like, but you have to give credit where it's due, and I think FFD deserve all the success they get.

    unknown title 2009

  • For the twelfth consecutive year, the prententious, narcissistic Canadian city declared itself the winner, beating out other self-serving cities such as Paris, Milan, and Rome.

    The Toque 2009

  • For the twelfth consecutive year, the prententious, narcissistic Canadian city declared itself the winner, beating out other self-serving cities such as Paris, Milan, and Rome.

    The Toque 2009

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