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This episode of Nincompoop Theater was brought to you by the letter "N."
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After Picon translated her husband's Yiddish play, Schmendrick [Nincompoop], she and Kalich briefly separated, reuniting as personal and professional equals, no longer mentor and student.
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This new incident bears all the hallmarks of the rank incompetence we have come to associate with this Nincompoop government.
Archive 2007-09-09 2007
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This new incident bears all the hallmarks of the rank incompetence we have come to associate with this Nincompoop government.
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Funny how you don't apply this to codes, O Majestically Rancid Nincompoop.
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Nincompoop: Fool, simpleton; anyone over age 12 who thinks money grows on trees.
Why is Billings so much like Billings? David 2007
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This was never spelt out by Nincompoop Communities Minister Ruth Kelly when she announced the new planning policy with so much of a flourish, suggesting that everything would be simple, cheap and user friendly in the New Labour land of planning.
Archive 2007-06-03 2007
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Nincompoop Activism: The promotion of any idea that is contrary to common experience or common sense, has already been proven a failure, or relies upon junk science or statistical correlations; esp. any proposed plan or program that claims to have no cost.
Why is Billings so much like Billings? David 2007
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Look at Duane Gish, my personal favorite poster child for Well-Credentialed Nincompoop.
"Endless diversity" in bacterial genomes? - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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Melancholy dissyllable of sound! which, to his ears, was unison to Nincompoop, and every name vituperative under heaven. —
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