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- noun slang A
working-class youth .
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In my local paper today, some herbert is on the front page, because he managed to waste a trip by the air ambulance and 9 hrs of very expensive surgical time all just to sew his finger back on.
The Weekend Starts Here « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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Babs/becky: i like the name herbert chicabotica: the four of us are wondering how long it will take for people to get sick of us talking about the quad. chicabotica: we can't stop talking about the quad. chicabotica: quad quad quad!
evolver Diary Entry evolver 2003
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It's a belated transatlantic retort to Taxi Driver-era Robert de Niro's mirthless smile and similarly betokens a nasty little herbert with a penchant for sadism.
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Five Places to Get Free Books myFiveBest Opinions: World War 2 Historic Films amy wallace, book of lists, david wallechinsky, guinness book of records, herbert hoover, irving wallace, james p. fowler sr.,
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Write to Herbert Rude at herbert.rude @dowjones.com
Doubts Rise on Rally in German Stocks Herbert Rude 2011
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I watched with barely stifled laughter ‘Police Cops’ or some such on 5 the other night when a local herbert was tasered by 2 armed response unit officers.
“Ruralshire Constabulary to get TASER on the front line” « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Contact you dream? you listen? spoken word? zbigniew herbert | a ballad that we do not perish
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Owl Rancher says: herbert hoover for president!!!!!!
Think Progress » Brown wins Massachusetts special election; Coakley concedes. 2010
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Contact you dream? you listen? spoken word? zbigniew herbert | a ballad that we do not perish
December « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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The final summary at the end of the program where they list how long Billy got for stomping on a policemans head (2 weeks and £25 costs) they announced that they tasered the wrong tattooed herbert and this one was released.
“Ruralshire Constabulary to get TASER on the front line” « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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