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								Comic relief: It was at the gathering where we watched the concert DVD that another of my friends observed, “Tom Petty is really starting to look like Klaus Kinski.” 
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								Petty is my middle name EK New - petty-mania .. (shouldn't have started that) 8: 24 PM david cameron's forehead said ... The Two Faced Ginga Bastard Newmania 2008 
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								Either way, Tom Petty is awesome and I would gladly trade anything about Bob Dylan for anything about Tom Petty. TRAILERS TRASHED 2007 
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								As an actress and artist as well, Petty is truly a jack of all trades with enlightening designer also under her thumb. 
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								They arrived in Petty Harbour in 1784, where their first child, Michael, was born, and they moved on to Cape Broyle the following year. Gutenber-e Help Page 2005 
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								The only title Petty won when he was truly challenged was in 1979, when he edged Waltrip, FOXSports.com News 2009 
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								There had been talk at first, both inside and outside the Francais, of a satirical piece called the Petty Bourgeois, but having nothing except the name in common with his unfinished novel similarly yclept. Balzac 2003 
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								Major Hertel de Rouville, with upwards of three hundred and forty French and Indians, arrived at a pine bluff overlooking Deerfield meadow, about two miles north of the village -- a locality now known as Petty's Plain. The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees Mary Caroline Crawford 
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								There had been talk at first, both inside and outside the Francais, of a satirical piece called the Petty Bourgeois, but having nothing except the name in common with his unfinished novel similarly yclept. Balzac Lawton, Frederick 1910 
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								From the mate it was further learned that the pursuer had overhauled the pursued between Petit Goufre -- which he and the whole company called Petty Gulf -- and Grand Gulf; places named before the days of steam for their dangerous eddies. Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi George Washington Cable 1884 
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