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  • Does DTM work at Pimco? prickishness aside, it seems rather stupid to put the concerns of bondholders, who loadned large sums to distressed companies only because of the expectation of government bailouts, ahead of taxpayers.

    Matthew Yglesias » Geithner’s Recipe for Zombie Banks 2009

  • In this sense, inline skates have the power amplify a pedestrian's prickishness in the same way a microphone allows a bad singer to suck even louder.

    The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: Being On the Lookout BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • I like the title treatment, it's makes you differeniate this film from the videogames, contemporaizes it…looking forward to what will hopefully be beautiful mindless entertainment in the true spirit of the game…at least it looks like the game…and Gyllenhaal seems to be embracing the prickishness of the protag.

    Final Poster for Disney's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time « FirstShowing.net 2010

  • And if the mangy devotees of Game decide to add prickishness to their existing repertoire, then - regardless of what the aspiring PUAs of this world are telling one another during their circle jerks - they're not going to get any more physical action from the ladies.

    Take Your Prick juliette 2009

  • And if the mangy devotees of Game decide to add prickishness to their existing repertoire, then - regardless of what the aspiring PUAs of this world are telling one another during their circle jerks - they're not going to get any more physical action from the ladies.

    Archive 2009-09-01 juliette 2009

  • Try dropping the non-partisan act, and the arrogant prickishness of you posts, and I will respond with more then ad hominen attacks.

    Think Progress » New Study: Global Warming, Not ‘Natural Cycles,’ Played Major Role in 2005 Hurricane Season 2006

  • The worst driver I know is a bigger Liberal than I am, and sanctimonious self-complacency, not to mention prickishness, are bi-partisan afflictions, as conservative readers of this blog will tell you and have told me.

    Lance Mannion: 2005

  • The worst driver I know is a bigger Liberal than I am, and sanctimonious self-complacency, not to mention prickishness, are bi-partisan afflictions, as conservative readers of this blog will tell you and have told me.

    Annoy a Liberal. Drive like an idiot. 2005

  • Later, perhaps, after the object of Thorin's unseemly late - life prickishness had gone.

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

  • I guess you could characterize his prickishness from last week as selfish as well.

    Yahoo! Sports - Top News Kelly Dwyer 2010

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