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  • I think I'm just going to stick to the old standby of coconut coated cake with plastic floatsam bunny head and Easter grass that inevitably sticks to everything.

    Bunny Bashers 2010

  • The Walmart baker shot me a dirty look when I told my mom the cake picture looked like a "pile plastic floatsam adrift on a sea of glittery pixey dust and broken dreams...er.. cobblestones."

    ...and so fourth the hubby of JEN 2009

  • It was at the same spot that I took a picture of floatsam last October.

    Waldo Jaquith - A brown pelican catches fish. 2007

  • By all accounts, the father of Elian Gonsalez was a good man and would never have allowed the boy's mother to risk his life in an overloaded boat where 12 died when it capsized and the child and two others barely lived - hours away from dying of hypothermia clinging to an innertube - saved only because fishermen spotted debris and went to it because fish are attracted to floatsam.

    Meghan McCain: "Sarah Palin is the only part of the campaign that I won’t comment on publicly." Ann Althouse 2009

  • Hi there, came across your blog randomly on the search "blackberry blogger" curious if Google had added a blackberry app for blogger yet and saw the floatsam conundrum.

    Blogger And My Blackberry 2007

  • Interestingly, the ship was going at warp speed and she was maintaining pace, pumping her legs furiously and skipping from one piece of floatsam to another.

    Star Trek: A Rock and a Hard Place Peter David 1990

  • Interestingly, the ship was going at warp speed and she was maintaining pace, pumping her legs furiously and skipping from one piece of floatsam to another.

    Star Trek: A Rock and a Hard Place Peter David 1990

  • Interestingly, the ship was going at warp speed and she was maintaining pace, pumping her legs furiously and skipping from one piece of floatsam to another.

    Star Trek: A Rock and a Hard Place Peter David 1990

  • Interestingly, the ship was going at warp speed and she was maintaining pace, pumping her legs furiously and skipping from one piece of floatsam to another.

    Star Trek: A Rock and a Hard Place Peter David 1990

  • Joe will explain all about Abe Lincoln and the Cuban Missile crisis and the media and Obama's collective floatsam will swoon.

    AroundTheCapitol.com 2008

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