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I'd rather burn my ears off with an oxy-acetylene torch and fill the holes year-old skunk's vomit than listen to that insipid little foetus.
Brit awards 2011: Take That win best British group 21 years after their debut 2011
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Oklahoma state law prohibited us from removing the jar from the skunk's head and allowing it to walk away.
The Skunk Whisperer 2009
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Oklahoma state law prohibited us from removing the jar from the skunk's head and allowing it to walk away.
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A skunk's entrance into one's house was an ominous sign that Tezcatlipoca was about to unleash his wrath: its foul stench "entered into one," auguring death and destruction.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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In the skunk's defense ... he/she was beautiful skunk with a large plume tail.
Close Calls 2007
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One this that does surprise me is getting away with a punchline to a notorious dirty joke re the skunk's somewhat fey "My, there were an awful lot of skunks in here".
The Gandhi Joke Restored Jaime J. Weinman 2009
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Giuliani has not only a dumpster full of baggage but a mean streak wider than that on a skunk's back.
Head Of NYC Firefighters Union Attacks Giuliani's 9/11 Performance 2009
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It took some convincing by me and a few threats on the skunk's part, but it finally gave in and left with one last, lingering look at the bag of kibble seemingly permanently stuck in the cat door as it went by.
OpEdNews - Diary: Skunks, Cats, Murphy, and Where Was That Scotch, Anyway? 2009
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In the skunk's defense ... he/she was beautiful skunk with a large plume tail.
Close Calls 2007
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Actually, it's worse than B.S. It's the kind of hypocrisy that bears the unmistakable smell of the liquid fertilizer that farmers spread onto their fields at the start of the planting season -- a smell far more nauseating than a skunk's (I live out in farm country, so I know what I'm talking about).
McCain, Nominee of 'Rich People's Party,' Calls Obama 'Out of Touch' With the Poor 2008
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