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  • T.S. Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" is perhaps the most famous collection of cat poems, but it has always struck me as a bit fuss-budgety, like its author, a native of St. Louis who became a British subject in 1927, thereby missing out onsevenWorld Series titles by the St. Louis Cardinals.

    Poetry for Cats 2010

  • Another expression of man's sinfulness is the inability of Schulz's characters to change for the better: fuss-budgety Lucy is destined to grow from "the crabby little girl of today"

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • (Except those fuss-budgety Bat-stickler who refuse to have any fun at all if Batman isn't breaking clavicles and busting internal organs.

    Mania News Feed Joe Oesterle 2010

  • (Except those fuss-budgety Bat-stickler who refuse to have any fun at all if Batman isn't breaking clavicles and busting internal organs.

    Mania News Feed Joe Oesterle 2010

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