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He cites Bill Gates as 'poohpoohing' the faddish rush to green energy and asserts that the bottom line is still the only measure of business.
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W. BLITZER: But the police are poohpoohing that, aren't they?
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After poohpoohing the righteous rantings of the waterlogged Christ figure, the Cat begins to juggle several icons of Western culture, most notably two books, representing the Old and New Testaments, and a saucer of lactal fluid, an ironic reference to maternal loss the two children experienced when their mother abandoned them "for the afternoon."
Sunlight Through The Shadows Magazine Volume 1 Issue 5 (ANSI Edition) 1993
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The routine man is in the majority in his profession always: consequently the moment his practice is tracked down to its source in human passion there is a great and quite sincere poohpoohing from himself, from the mass of the profession, and from the mass of the public, which sees that the average doctor is much too commonplace and decent a person to be capable of passionate wickedness of any kind.
The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors George Bernard Shaw 1903
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