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  • Handsome is as handsome does and when I compare the record of Repukelicans to that of Dimocrats, I see that again and again the Repukelicans line up on the side of corporate interests and that pernicious 1% of the population that has claimed so large a share of our national wealth to the empoverishment of so very many.

    Gallup Poll: Will Obama Ban Try To Ban The Sale of Handguns? 2009

  • Handsome is as handsome does and when I compare the record of Repukelicans to that of Dimocrats, I see that again and again the Repukelicans line up on the side of corporate interests and that pernicious 1% of the population that has claimed so large a share of our national wealth to the empoverishment of so very many.

    Gallup Poll: Will Obama Ban Try To Ban The Sale of Handguns? 2009

  • Handsome is as handsome does, I guess, so I traded it in for a plane-jane Kimber Hunter that worked and shot great.

    The Worst Guns of All Time 2006

  • Handsome is short-hand for either too young or too plastic.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Chickenlady 2007

  • Handsome is short-hand for either too young or too plastic.

    On Cute Chickenlady 2007

  • Last week, in one of his many interviews, Dunlap talked about wanting to be called Handsome Al rather than Chain Saw Al or Nuclear Al. Fat chance.

    Here We Go Again 2008

  • Haymarket, to be entitled the Handsome Chambermaid, or Piety in

    The Life of Oliver Goldsmith 2004

  • Handsome, that is, if you found the barracuda Hapsburg looks appealing.

    In the Garden of Iden 1997

  • His brother, now in the service of the surgeon, is called Handsome, and

    The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer John Beatty

  • Foote, the Aristophanes of the English drama, who was always on the alert to turn every subject of popular excitement to account, seeing the success of the Fantoccini, gave out that he should produce a Primitive Puppet-show at the Haymarket, to be entitled the Handsome Chambermaid, or Piety in Pattens: intended to burlesque the sentimental comedy which Garrick still maintained at Drury Lane.

    Oliver Goldsmith Irving, Washington 1849

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