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  • Captain Jack saves the Doctor with the use of his hand/second heart/some kind of timey wimey magic.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • The air is thick and the freon in the ACs is supplied by old-timey CIA Mengele-trained quacks.

    Matthew Yglesias » Executions in 2009 2010

  • Ley's older stores remind me of the old timey grocery stores when I was a child, one could do one stop shopping at those old stores.

    Chinese, Ley and Soriana 2009

  • Ectoplasm plays havoc with the pores, same with the temporal ah … timey-wimey stuff.

    2010 March « The Graveyard 2010

  • My own fiction has often been called "old-timey" but I hope that, like a New Beetle or Mini-Cooper, it combines the fun and excitement of the old model with modern sensibilities and engineering.

    MIND MELD: Who are Your Literary Influences in the Ongoing Conversation of Science Fiction? 2009

  • I've been writing timey-whimey today, after promising myself that I wouldn't write a word at all and give my brain a rest, and now my head hurts.

    I Wasn't Supposed to Write Today amberfocus 2009

  • One of my favorite San Francisco attractions is the Musée Mécanique, a delightful old-timey penny arcade packed with arcade machines, automatons, mechanical musicboxes, and other fantastic contraptions of yesteryear.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Although, you start connecting the dots and you realize that, though she sounds like an old-timey, old-fashioned Catholic moralist, she's almost always defending something that most of us would find horrific, whether it's corrupt politicians over reformers, or bar brawlers.

    Todd Seavey Rehashes Romantic Past With Fellow C-SPAN Panelist On Live TV (VIDEO) The Huffington Post 2010

  • Old timey banjo instruction books released under a Creative ...

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Although, you start connecting the dots and you realize that, though she sounds like an old-timey, old-fashioned Catholic moralist, she's almost always defending something that most of us would find horrific, whether it's corrupt politicians over reformers, or bar brawlers.

    Todd Seavey Rehashes Romantic Past With Fellow C-SPAN Panelist On Live TV (VIDEO) The Huffington Post 2010

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