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  • I can't tell you how many people order those gosh-awful cupcake cakes and are SURPRISED that it doesn't look like a true Hello Kitty, Onesie, or Tiara.

    Hello, Kitty? Jen 2009

  • A fairly decent CCC ruined by that gosh-awful conglomeration on the right?

    How to Make Your Twins Hate You Jen 2009

  • Thank you for the gosh-awful poo cakes...and on this special day!

    In Which Happy Tanks SHOULD Be Given, But Are Not 2009

  • Moving through Mexico is much easier with a pilot and navigator, chief scout and lookout -- for highway signs and topes, those gosh-awful speed bumps that keep small-town muffler and alignment shops flourishing.

    For snowbirds in Mexico and other highwaymen 2005

  • Moving through Mexico is much easier with a pilot and navigator, chief scout and lookout -- for highway signs and topes, those gosh-awful speed bumps that keep small-town muffler and alignment shops flourishing.

    For snowbirds in Mexico and other highwaymen 2005

  • Moving through Mexico is much easier with a pilot and navigator, chief scout and lookout -- for highway signs and topes, those gosh-awful speed bumps that keep small-town muffler and alignment shops flourishing.

    For snowbirds in Mexico and other highwaymen 2005

  • There's some rattling and shaking but no hesitation as it clears cobblestones and a gosh-awful speed bump.

    Old pickup truck in Mexico 2004

  • There's some rattling and shaking but no hesitation as it clears cobblestones and a gosh-awful speed bump.

    Old pickup truck in Mexico 2004

  • He was a math teacher until he got fired for flunking some gosh-awful fraction of his students.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • Fall, which for Chicago apparently meant pleasant days and cool nights interspersed with gosh-awful hot days, was sneaking into the area.

    A Ring And A Promise Edwards, Andrea 1995

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