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  • When comparing something either to Nazism or Socialism, it would be helpful to actually understand what those terms MEAN, both from an economic/governance and from a historical standpoint.

    Hey Jews: Let’s All Denounce This | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • Her character, Jane Tennyson, sure can be a mean mutha -- with a good cause perhaps, but sometimes she's just plain MEAN.

    Archive 2004-04-25 Michael Evans 2004

  • Her character, Jane Tennyson, sure can be a mean mutha -- with a good cause perhaps, but sometimes she's just plain MEAN.

    View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2004

  • Uh, it's called MEAN GIRLS and she played Karen Smith, the one whose breasts could always tell when it's already raining!

    X17 Online 2008

  • CLERKS is an okay movie, and MALLRATS is a pretty bad movie, but they both house some very good elements, and an original sensibility that would be perfected by leaps and bounds with CHASING AMY, kind of like what that Scorsese dude did in '73 with that small film about wannabe gangsters called MEAN STREETS.

    /Film 2008

  • Democrats will alway say that he didn't "MEAN" to say that he invented the Internet; that he was responsible for fostering the development of the technology we know today as the Internet (per snopes).

    Alphabet of Computing » E-Mail 2009

  • Democrats will alway say that he didn't "MEAN" to say that he invented the Internet; that he was responsible for fostering the development of the technology we know today as the Internet (per snopes).

    Alphabet of Computing 2009

  • "Well, he seems a kind of MEAN man," George Flack moralised.

    The Reverberator Henry James 1879

  • ONE 'MEAN' READ: Tallahassee writer-performer-personality Terry Galloway (aka Mickee Faust when onstage) will read from her critically acclaimed new memoir "Mean Little Deaf Queer"

    unknown title 2009

  • ONE 'MEAN' READ: Tallahassee writer-performer-personality Terry Galloway (aka Mickee Faust when onstage) will read from her critically acclaimed new memoir "Mean Little Deaf Queer"

    unknown title 2009

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