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  • Yes, Krauthammer would have to plead guilty to what Palin would deride as high-falutin'' educational credentials: he studied at Oxford and earned his MD at Harvard Medical School.

    Notable 2011

  • I was a federal bank examiner for the Comptroller of the Currency for a few years in San Francisco and this ole boy, right out of the alligator infested bayous of Mobile County, Alabama just up from the Gulf would sit across the table from those high falutin San Francisco bankers who just knew, the minute I opened my mouth that I was an ignorant rube pushover.

    Page 2 2009

  • In the past, these burglaries and burglary attempts took place mainly in those high falutin hillside fraccionamientos with inadequate security but the criminals, in these hard times, have shown that they can be downwardly mobile and that´s the noticeable change.

    You Don�t Need a Weatherman 2009

  • Adams is both street savvy and high falutin', sassy and Shakespeare-quotin' at the same time.

    Michael Giltz: Theater: Close Up Space Wastes Talented David Hyde Pierce Michael Giltz 2011

  • I was a federal bank examiner for the Comptroller of the Currency for a few years in San Francisco and this ole boy, right out of the alligator infested bayous of Mobile County, Alabama just up from the Gulf would sit across the table from those high falutin San Francisco bankers who just knew, the minute I opened my mouth that I was an ignorant rube pushover.

    Page 2 2009

  • I was a federal bank examiner for the Comptroller of the Currency for a few years in San Francisco and this ole boy, right out of the alligator infested bayous of Mobile County, Alabama just up from the Gulf would sit across the table from those high falutin San Francisco bankers who just knew, the minute I opened my mouth that I was an ignorant rube pushover.

    Page 2 2009

  • In the past, these burglaries and burglary attempts took place mainly in those high falutin hillside fraccionamientos with inadequate security but the criminals, in these hard times, have shown that they can be downwardly mobile and that´s the noticeable change.

    You Don�t Need a Weatherman 2009

  • In the past, these burglaries and burglary attempts took place mainly in those high falutin hillside fraccionamientos with inadequate security but the criminals, in these hard times, have shown that they can be downwardly mobile and that´s the noticeable change.

    You Don�t Need a Weatherman 2009

  • The budgets never matched the high falutin 'rhetoric and Griffin had absolutely no traction with his boss.

    NASA Administrator: A New Name Is Circulating - NASA Watch 2009

  • What's funny is that Officer Crowley's choice of Blue Moon is much more snooty than that of the high falutin 'Professor Gates (Red Stripe – icky).

    Beer choice at Obama meeting touches off new debate 2009

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  • Rasputin.

    July 18, 2008

  • Disputin'.

    July 24, 2008