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Meanwhile, Super Bowl calvinball about advocacy ads continues.
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A game of calvinball for instance is an undertaking of pure random process divorced from results.
Stress, Labor & Play 2010
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Evan, this can’t be the first time you’ve noticed his tendency to play calvinball.
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If your playing calvinball like that, it’s hard not to win.
Matthew Yglesias » “Change In Challenging Times: A Plan For Extending And Improving Health Coverage” 2010
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January 4th, 2008 at 1: 48 pm baedo says: see, if someone would just name a beer ‘ram rod’ or ‘poker in the rear’ i’d have been fine, erswi. and i like the ‘calvinball’ rules precedent … by the way. i suppose i could have used ‘Flensburger’ instead, that sounds kind of dirty … could almost see ‘fleshburger’ in that …?
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The beloved comic strip Calvin and Hobbes introduced us to the concept of “Calvinball”—a sport in which the participants make up the rules as they go, never using the same rules twice.
Conservatives Loved Expanding The 1st Amendment To Corporations… Until Last Year. Wonder Why? Mike Masnick 2022
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