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  • So really media, sports journalist and bloggers don't waste that infinite brain power of yours on such useless statistical fodder, look at it like this ... none of these players put forth an inch of the effort in their careers on improving this illustrious game, so why should you spend more time breaking down their sorryness when they couldn't even meet you half way?

    Khai Gordon: A Bust is a Bust is a BUST! 2010

  • So really media, sports journalist and bloggers don't waste that infinite brain power of yours on such useless statistical fodder, look at it like this ... none of these players put forth an inch of the effort in their careers on improving this illustrious game, so why should you spend more time breaking down their sorryness when they couldn't even meet you half way?

    Khai Gordon: A Bust is a Bust is a BUST! 2010

  • But, as Coetzee read a previously unpublished short story, he "had the audience roaring", according to Abu Dhabi English-language newspaper The National, "as he railed against the ridiculousness of the once-fertile Karoo area of South Africa, now only good for eco-tourism, and of a whole country's 'light grade of sorryness'".

    JM Coetzee rocks the house (yes, you read that right) 2010

  • Am now planning on buying her lunch to demonstrate my sorryness.

    July 27th, 2006 mynxii 2006

  • I do feel a certain sorryness for him tonight though.

    The Drug Taking Witchhunt Must Stop 2007

  • Damp and fog and fall of the leaf doubtless the sorryness of the bad business of decay and punishment but on the other hand what bravery of sunlight at times, and what colors for the sun to shine upon.

    Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales Arthur Shearly Cripps 1910

  • Gervais eventually bowed to public pressure to apologise, but by then it was hard to believe in the sincerity of his sorryness.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

  • So really media, sports journalist and bloggers don't waste that infinite brain power of yours on such useless statistical fodder, look at it like this ... none of these players put forth an inch of the effort in their careers on improving this illustrious game, so why should you spend more time breaking down their sorryness when they couldn't even meet you half way?

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2010

  • So really media, sports journalist and bloggers don't waste that infinite brain power of yours on such useless statistical fodder, look at it like this ... none of these players put forth an inch of the effort in their careers on improving this illustrious game, so why should you spend more time breaking down their sorryness when they couldn't even meet you half way?

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2010

  • Criticizing a kid who did nothing wrong simply because he skipped college & went pro, the same thing he would've done if he had the chance, & saying how glad he was when he saw that kid almost crying in that green room was absolute sorryness.

    Dallas Observer | Complete Issue 2009

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