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So maybe if you combine the good and bad Republicans legacies, you get an average that's about equivalent to the hohum records of the Democrats.
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It's quite easy to make a best/worst list, but finding a bunch of movies you feel hohum about sounds kind of fun. so yeah thats a pretty damn fine list of so so movies
Ron Howard’s Favorite Movies of 2009 and David Wain’s Best So-So Movies of the Decade | /Film 2009
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Snob; One of my favorite memories when Boo was about 7 was failing to take anything out for dinner and instead of making something everyone would hohum about, I whipped out the cast iron pan and made pancakes.
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Ho hum: Those kind of cafes don't do Espresso do they hohum?
Make Wit not Wi Fi Ms Robinson 2008
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When she plays her last official engagement at the Virginia Slims Championships in New York next week -- a tournament she has won, hohum, on seven occasions -- first-time Martina gazers will invariably see her as warmer and more personable.
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I think I explained this in a previous post, but until a mod reviews it nobody can see it ;_; hohum.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Honda has plans for Hydrogen car in 3 or so years 2006
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There is no hell, there are no demons - it's all alien viruses and extra chromosomes... hohum.
November 7th, 2005 curufea 2005
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And they would get the mix set and be all hohum about it.
Revealing Jewel an Intimate Portrait from Family and Friends Kenneth Calhoun 2003
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What if what we do best is safe-cracking: as for Blake, hohum; everything that lives is not holy, by any rational definition of the word (that is, as having attained perfection in a moral sense).
Joseph Campbell: An Exchange Finch, Roy 1989
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"Yes," he continued, "we've been a-straddlin 'along through troublements and trialments and afflickaments, hanging out our phiols down by the cold streams o' Babylon, and not gittin 'nothin' in 'em, hohum!"
Vesty of the Basins Sarah P. McLean Greene 1895
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