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The difference is Obama was using a hay-seed cliché and McInsane was talking about Palin.
McCain Has Said "Lipstick On A Pig" At Least Three Times 2009
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The difference is Obama was using a hay-seed cliché and McInsane was talking about Palin.
McCain Has Said "Lipstick On A Pig" At Least Three Times 2009
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When are you people at the NYTimes going to understand that all of us rural uneducated hay-seed rednecks want out of government is to be left alone.
Democrats Struggle to Paint the Countryside Blue - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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I should get an automatic bid into your brackets as the number one hay-seed.
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We sprang from our nests, shook the hay-seed out of our hair, and were full-dressed without more ceremony, ready for whatever grand sensation Nature might purvey for our aesthetic breakfast.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various
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He was small and mean-looking -- his foretop and mane in a hopeless tangle, with hay-seed on his eyelids, and damp straws scattered promiscuously around his body.
The Opium Habit Horace B. Day
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The parson gathered that the Senior Warden felt slighted that he had not been asked by the Bishop to name his appointee; and that if he had bethought himself to sprinkle a little hay-seed on his clothing, his reception might have been more cordial.
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The mates, of course, and the boat-steerers, and also two or three of the crew, had been to sea before, but only whaling voyages; and the greater part of the crew were raw hands, just from the bush, as green as cabbages, and had not yet got the hay-seed out of their heads.
Chapter XXV. Rumors of War-A Spouter-Slipping for a South-Easter-A Gale 1909
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All the same "-- he looked admiringly at his companion --" there's no hay-seed in _your_ hair.
In Apple-Blossom Time A Fairy-Tale to Date Clara Louise Burnham 1890
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Minister, attempting a joke, with a feeble laugh, but no one paid the slightest attention to him; and Berrylegs, who was now positively swelling with importance, called out, in a loud voice, "It comes from using sewing-machines when they sow the hay-seed!"
Davy and The Goblin What Followed Reading 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' Edmund Birckhead Bensell 1880
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