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How can the rest of a bathroom look so innocent, while the shower looks like a ominous hellmouth? roomenvy – futuristic mosaic [...]
Pixilated Bathroom Design Made with Mosaic Bathroom Tiles 2009
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Next thing some loon will be twattering that the hellmouth has been ripped open and slavering orcs are on the rampage, or like that little sh!
Cheeseburger Gothic » This is why the Playboy Mansion sits atop a very high hill. 2010
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However I feel I need to tell you, so you can tell the President, how it is I may have came to open the hellmouth.
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Men named Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld have been working hardand spending billions-on secret strategies to ensure their survival when the hellmouth of catastrophe swallows everyone else. '
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Chris Floyd: Main Core Blues: Stranger in a Strange Land 2008
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Men named Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld have been working hardand spending billions-on secret strategies to ensure their survival when the hellmouth of catastrophe swallows everyone else.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Chris Floyd: Main Core Blues: Stranger in a Strange Land 2008
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The city is home to a troublesome space-time rift that is sort of like that pesky hellmouth in Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, but not really.
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“New York, which gave us a generation of female political superstars,” wrote Gail Collins in The New York Times Magazine, “has turned into the hellmouth of women in politics.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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On the medieval stage in Metz, France, the mystery play employed special effects of a mechanical monster with what was called its hellmouth agape, sparks shooting out.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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In the community of Sunnydale, the fictional “watcher” of Buffy—a high-school student with a knack for slaying the evil beings lurking at the local hellmouth—explains, “The Spanish who first settled the area called it Boca Del Infierno—roughly translated, ‘Hellmouth,’ a sort of portal from this reality to the next.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
elfflame commented on the word hellmouth
"But that's the thrill of living on the Hellmouth! There's a veritable cornucopia of, of fiends and devils and, and ghouls to engage... Pardon me for finding the glass half full." - Giles, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
December 18, 2007