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Danny Mwanga » amobi okugo, teal bunbury, tony tchani, zach loyd … Three nights before the MLS SuperDraft, Philadelphia Union CEO and ...
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Danny Mwanga » amobi okugo, teal bunbury, tony tchani, zach loyd … Three nights before the MLS SuperDraft, Philadelphia Union CEO and ...
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Can go to bunbury or is it albany to see dolpins and whales i think.
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v = 0 rag246: This looks shooped … I can tell from the pixels and from shoopin quite a few whoops in my time. as1202: comment 307 - Larissa was fired b / c the new management short changed her in her paycheck and when she went to ... bunbury: Oh. My.
Hoboken 411 2008
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v = 0 rag246: This looks shooped … I can tell from the pixels and from shoopin quite a few whoops in my time. as1202: comment 307 - Larissa was fired b / c the new management short changed her in her paycheck and when she went to ... bunbury: Oh. My.
Hoboken 411 2008
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Does anyone ... matt_72: [quote comment = "110410″] W ait, I thought we were supposed to be outraged that city employees ... bunbury: I lived there for almost four years … … if you are happy with your unit, great.
Hoboken 411 2008
trivet commented on the word bunbury
Pastime of Algernon Moncrieff and
these birds.
March 28, 2007
valse commented on the word bunbury
Thanks for the interesting article, trivet.
April 15, 2007
patiomensch commented on the word bunbury
Bunbury's also used in Jonathan Ames's "The Extra Man." As in "Earnest," he's a made-up guy; they use him to disguise where they've truly been, so that they'll remain mysteries to each other. "I was out with Bunbury."
April 16, 2007
jeffazi commented on the word bunbury
noun: An imaginary person whose name is used as an excuse to some purpose, especially to visit a place.
verb intr: To use the name of a fictitious person as an excuse.
November 20, 2007
anydelirium commented on the word bunbury
JACK: This ghastly state of things is what you'd call Bunburying, I suppose.
ALGERNON: Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life.
JACK: Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here.
ALGERNON: That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that.
JACK: Serious Bunburyist! Good heavens!
-The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde
February 19, 2008
frindley commented on the word bunbury
Bunbury makes his first appearance:
ALGERNON. Literary criticism is not your forte, my dear fellow. Don’t try it. You should leave that to people who haven’t been at a University. They do it so well in the daily papers. What you really are is a Bunburyist. I was quite right in saying you were a Bunburyist. You are one of the most advanced Bunburyists I know.
JACK. What on earth do you mean?
ALGERNON. You have invented a very useful younger brother called Ernest, in order that you may be able to come up to town as often as you like. I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose. Bunbury is perfectly invaluable. If it wasn’t for Bunbury’s extraordinary bad health, for instance, I wouldn’t be able to dine with you at Willis’s to-night, for I have been really engaged to Aunt Augusta for more than a week.
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
October 4, 2008
ruzuzu commented on the word bunbury
When my play-reading group did The Importance of Being Earnest, I was assigned the role of Algernon. In that line about literary criticism, I read forte as one syllable--assuming Algernon might know to say it that way--but at least two fellow readers tried to help me out by whispering "for-tay."
April 3, 2011
bilby commented on the word bunbury
*snortay*
April 3, 2011
gangerh commented on the word bunbury
*throws a cupcake for burying*
April 3, 2011