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  • The fact that the Indians in the area were hunting deer to the extent that these guys did makes it very interesting because the coast we have there today is busted-up marsh, he said.

    Oil spill cleanup turns up trove of Indian relics 2011

  • The fact that the Indians in the area were hunting deer to the extent that these guys did makes it very interesting because the coast we have there today is busted-up marsh, he said.

    Oil spill cleanup turns up trove of Indian relics 2011

  • All told, reader Sam sat on hold with the Fuai Corporation for 2 hours and 25 minutes only to end up with a DTV box with a busted-up face that didn't even have the analog pass-through feature he paid for.

    The Consumerist: February 2009 Archives 2009

  • Everything dark, dim, dark, not light, except for the stage and the busted-up cars and cracked open carcasses flickering on the screen like dehydration desert visions.

    Molecules Joe Deir 2011

  • All told, reader Sam sat on hold with the Fuai Corporation for 2 hours and 25 minutes only to end up with a DTV box with a busted-up face that didn't even have the analog pass-through feature he paid for.

    2 Hrs, 25 Min On Hold Just To Get A Busted DTV Converter - The Consumerist 2009

  • Much better is "How Did You Find Me Here," a busted-up ballad that finds our hero singing from the bottom of an open grave.

    Album reviews: Willie Nelson, "Country Music" and Merle Haggard, "I Am What I Am" 2010

  • He riffed on toilets during his keynote address at the 2010 International Builders' Show in Las Vegas, and his Web site shows him wielding a sledgehammer over a busted-up toilet next to the quote, "If you leave this web site, I will kill this defenseless toilet."

    A note to Carl Hiaasen, rather Dave Barry, about low-flow toilets 2010

  • Everything from my past had caught up with me, and I felt so bad about myself that I really believed I deserved to be a drug addict, and I deserved to live this dangerous, busted-up lifestyle.

    KILLING WILLIS TODD BRIDGES 2010

  • He riffed on toilets during his keynote address at the 2010 International Builders 'Show in Las Vegas, and his Web site shows him wielding a sledgehammer over a busted-up toilet next to the quote, "If you leave this web site, I will kill this defenseless toilet."

    A note to Carl Hiaasen, rather Dave Barry, about low-flow toilets 2010

  • Much better is "How Did You Find Me Here," a busted-up ballad that finds our hero singing from the bottom of an open grave.

    Enjoying a golden old age 2010

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