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  • 11 March 2009 at 8: 33 pm wait wait wait wait!!!!!!!! is she NOT coming to santa monica high in barnum hall????????? omg ive been looking forward to that forever!!! how cud they take it away!!!!????

    Twilight Lexicon » Catherine Hardwicke Has New Signing Date 2009

  • September 6th, 2009 12: 26 pm ET thank you glen beck, when i read and heard this guys views i wonder how can this guy be working in the white house pt barnum said there is a sucker born every minute and obama suckered 52 million people on voting day it is very clear obama is a socialist and marxist

    Obama did not order Van Jones' resignation, adviser says 2009

  • June 3, 2009 @ 3:44 pm who, in their right mind, really think home depot is going to just give you a free tank of propane with no strings attached? pt barnum said it best!

    Mouse Print»Blog Archive » Home Depot’s Free Propane Exchange — Some Got Burned 2009

  • Now they have the barnum of "terrorism" to try to force us to accept that the US Constitution is a document completely unacceptable to our handlers.

    We're Fooling Ourselves: This Will Be WORSE Than the Great Depression 2008

  • THE BEATITUDES: (INCOHERENTLY) Beer beef battledog buybull businum barnum buggerum bishop.

    Ulysses 2003

  • Are there any numbers that you disliked initially but is now one of your favorites? yes, i didn't like the barnum number at first because the music annoyed me but, damn, they brought the circus to ice. perfectly.

    evolver Diary Entry evolver 2003

  • THE BEATITUDES: _ (Incoherently) _ Beer beef battledog buybull businum barnum buggerum bishop.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • He aerist scop aelda barnum heben til hrofe, haleg scepen [d].

    English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day 1873

  • It is expressed in a word which I use without any sense of its personality, as the French use the word Barnum -- for our crude young nation has the distinction of adding a verb to the French language, the verb to barnum -- it is expressed in the well-known name Croesus.

    Complete Essays Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • It is expressed in a word which I use without any sense of its personality, as the French use the word Barnum -- for our crude young nation has the distinction of adding a verb to the French language, the verb to barnum -- it is expressed in the well-known name Croesus.

    The Relation of Literature to Life Charles Dudley Warner 1864

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