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  • Sheen also addressed reports that he might be replaced on the sitcom, telling Lorre: "Good luck putting those tin-can sh--brain words in the mush-mouth of some arrogant carcass you've traded for this warlock."

    Charlie Sheen Taunts Ex-Bosses About "Illegal and Unconscionable" Firing 2011

  • Many residents say there is only one reason they wound up in this bleak place, which in Afrikaans means "tin-can town."

    In preparation for World Cup, the poor in Cape Town are being relocated 2010

  • Offering freedom but not for wireless users is tantamount to telling independent producers we are free to communicate and do business -- but only by tin-can or pony express, while the big boys rule the mobile superhighway.

    Laura Flanders: The F Word: Evil Inequality in the Works for the Web 2010

  • Offering freedom but not for wireless users is tantamount to telling independent producers we are free to communicate and do business -- but only by tin-can or pony express, while the big boys rule the mobile superhighway.

    Laura Flanders: The F Word: Evil Inequality in the Works for the Web 2010

  • "Now you've heard it straight from the mouth of this giant tin-can:"

    Pigeons Having Sex On An Air Conditioner In New York 2010

  • He praised Lulu's suggestive wiggling in a PG-13 sex scene, told the villain to tuck in his thumb because it marred a tableau, and worried about whether Hap's tin-can hat created a distracting shadow.

    Drawing Life in the Shadows 2010

  • Offering freedom but not for wireless users is tantamount to telling independent producers we are free to communicate and do business -- but only by tin-can or pony express, while the big boys rule the mobile superhighway.

    Laura Flanders: The F Word: Evil Inequality in the Works for the Web 2010

  • The story is partly inspired by a comic-strip character named Happy Hooligan, an affable hobo with a tin-can hat created by the famed cartoonist Frederick Burr Opper around 1900.

    Drawing Life in the Shadows 2010

  • When I first started to run, many years ago, it was on the tin-can level: My mind would tell my body to go out and run.

    ChiRunning Danny Dreyer 2009

  • When I've felt most strong as a writer were when I created the 0-gee gun battle sequence for Ragamuffin down the center of the ecologically damaged and war-torn tin-can shaped space station, and both the blimp chase scene in Sly Mongoose and the floating cities at war battle sequence.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Paul 2009

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