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  • These post-modern oompa-loompas can remove the colour from beetroot juice while brewers use them to remove micro-organisms and even viruses.

    Science Marches On I: Nanotech Milk Steve Carper 2007

  • SDL is Horn Book reviewer Susan Dove Lempke and a former co-worker of mine when we were both oompa-loompas at the Chicago Public Library.

    Being an American Can Be Fun Roger Sutton 2007

  • These post-modern oompa-loompas can remove the colour from beetroot juice while brewers use them to remove micro-organisms and even viruses.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Steve Carper 2007

  • Johnny Depp -- who feeds on the blood of the living -- plays the chocolatier as a well-dressed oddball whose apathy towards social niceties and antipathy towards children seem to stem, in part, from the fact that he's been alone with his oompa-loompas for entirely too long.

    July 21st, 2005 2005

  • I could see the oompa-loompas walking back n' forth behind the counter processing goodness.

    Pizza Party for My Nephew & Pizza Snob Friends e d b m 2007

  • ANDERSON: You ` ve got to love those oompa-loompas from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," right?

    CNN Transcript Dec 11, 2007 2007

  • I could see the oompa-loompas walking back n' forth behind the counter processing goodness.

    Archive 2007-09-01 e d b m 2007

  • You are a big fan of "Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory," those oompa-loompas?

    CNN Transcript Dec 11, 2007 2007

  • But now after reading your post, I'm going to expect trees full of XLB, oompa-loompas making them, a fat guy getting stuck in a dumpling machine for being too greedy and a bratty little girl turning into a dumpling.

    Din Tai Fung & The Dumpling Factory - Din Tai Fung, Arcadia e d b m 2006

  • I have not been able to overcome by fear of the oompa-loompas or the flying monkeys, but I am going to make a valiant attempt to stand up to the Mad Hatter and the Queen of Hearts.

    Collecting the Classics « So Many Books 2004

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