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Curiously, expression of the desire to be at the ‘heart of Europe’ remains confined in Britain to the Liberal ‘Democrats’, who would sell their daughters to white slavers if it meant a Federal Europe, Prime Ministers upon entering office (‘I want to see Britain at the heart of Europe’: by the time they leave office they usually only want to plant a dagger in its heart), by a small coterie of Labour Eurofanatics such as Keith Vaz and Denis MacShane (né Denis Matyjaszek) and by the aforementioned Tory has-beens from the failed era of John Major.
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Curiously, expression of the desire to be at the ‘heart of Europe’ remains confined in Britain to the Liberal ‘Democrats’, who would sell their daughters to white slavers if it meant a Federal Europe, Prime Ministers upon entering office (‘I want to see Britain at the heart of Europe’: by the time they leave office they usually only want to plant a dagger in its heart), by a small coterie of Labour Eurofanatics such as Keith Vaz and Denis MacShane (né Denis Matyjaszek) and by the aforementioned Tory has-beens from the failed era of John Major.
Archive 2008-01-13 2008
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But we will never understand what is happening, or see the “what might have beens,” the unseens as Bastiat would say.
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Meier, the man who bankrupted Dortmund in the 90s, has overseen the assembly of the league's most exotic bunch of unruly egomaniacs, lazy has-beens and overpaid miscreants.
Köln in meltdown as Zvonimir Soldo is shown the door Raphael Honigstein 2010
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Attacking our blog because we don't prop up washed up has-beens like Zemeckis, Shyamalan, etc or tools like Brett Ratner and McG, etc - that's really quite frankly retarded and says you haven't actually read anything on our site at all.
Disney to Close Robert Zemeckis’ Mo-Cap Studio ImageMovers Digital in 2011 | /Film 2010
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What I have for you, and will probably have to deliver in multiple chunks, is a love poem to the tropes of yesteryear, some of the great old science fiction stand-bys that have become has-beens.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Michael Leza’s Review Forum 2009
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But instead of trying to revive old careers, Savoy amplifies all the reasons why these “has-beens” fell from favour.
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When are the deluded baby boomers going to get that they are has beens?
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The work they did with Proby ironically comments on all those cynical marketing exercises whereby old has-beens like Tom Jones re-record hip songs like “Kiss” by Prince.
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They put beens in it at night and in the morning they have beans for breakfast.
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