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An unlucky stripling, one of those vagrant geniuses who seem sent into the world merely to annoy worthy men of the puddinghead order, desirous of ascertaining the correctness of the experiment, suddenly arrested the arm of the professor just at the moment that the bucket was in its zenith, which immediately descended with astonishing precision upon the philosophic head of the instructor of youth.
Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete Washington Irving 1821
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An unlucky stripling, one of those vagrant geniuses, who seem sent into the world merely to annoy worthy men of the puddinghead order, desirous of ascertaining the correctness of the experiment, suddenly arrested the arm of the professor, just at the moment that the bucket was in its zenith, which immediately descended with astonishing precision, upon the philosophic head of the instructor of youth.
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-3 / +3Reminds me of the way they trotted out the senior puddinghead from Massachusetts at the DNC.
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Reminds me of the way they trotted out the senior puddinghead from Massachusetts at the DNC.
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