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McCain will walk into the White House no matter who wins the nomination because the Dems are too busy shooting themselves in the footses.
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September 23, 2009 at 9:30 am izz Fridgee awlsotu teh wun whut bonks badd peeps onn tehy footses wif spyred bottlols ov piklols? ai has a wondurd abowt taht … *wandurz awf finkin kwizikal fawts*
I keepz ur beerz till I getz toona - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Dey picked cotton 'til midnight, and den dey had a little shakin' of de footses 'til day.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration
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Dem udder 'chillun got deir footses most cut off wid dem switches whan dat overseer got to wuk to sho 'em dey had to obey him.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration
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We would git in a ring and when the music started we would begin wukkin 'our footses while we sang' You steal my true love and I steal your'n! '
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration
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It helt fast to my footses, den I started to shake all over, and I been shakin 'ever since.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration
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I los 'both of my footses, and I gits powerful lonesome sometimes.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3 Work Projects Administration
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Dey tuk de measurin 'stick and measured de head, de body, and de footses and made de coffin to fit dese measurements.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration
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Hisse'f, He do, 'Who is dese yer folks, anyhows, whar gittin' so airish, walkin 'up an' down an 'back an' fo'th on my yearf an 'spurnin' hit so's't dey spread kyarpets 'twix' hit an 'der footses, treatin' my yearf, w'at I done mek, lak 'twuz de dirt un'need der footses, an'
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) Various 1887
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Dey kep 'on gwine on dis way twel bimeby Brer Fox lay down en roll over, he did, en dis sorter onsettle Brer Rabbit, but by de time Brer Fox got back on his footses agin, Brer Rabbit wuz gwine thoo de underbresh mo' samer dan a race-hoss.
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881
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