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Examples
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I tell you I am disgusted with this adventure tom-foolery and rot.
Chapter 28 2010
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And then they speak to us like we are kids like we don't see through this tom-foolery.
McConnell: There's a bailout fund in current Wall St. reform bill 2010
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Buddha's Thunderbolt elaborates the tale of this most peculiar man, a 5th Century rationalist, who regards magic as tom-foolery, druids as buffoons, and knights as glorified thugs.
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Hello, good morning and welcome to your Sunday Morning Liveblog of political chat and related tom-foolery.
Deepak Bhargava: Deflating the Fight for Real Health Care Reform 2009
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The recent tom-foolery in the Senate is further proof, that the jingoistic, uber-patriotic rhetoric by the republicans is just that, empty rhetoric.
Earlier Benefits Could Be On The Table In House/Senate Health Care Conference 2009
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Most people, especially in the press, see all this tom-foolery by the Clintons but it makes for a good story.
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They never stop to consider this is the taxpayers money which they are spending like our citizenry is a bottomless trough for their unconstitutional tom-foolery.
The Buying of Mary Landrieu - Dan_Perrin’s blog - RedState 2009
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I came to the conclusion that- shuffling cards brimming with symbolic meaning, peering into ominous swirls of tea leaves, andthe reading of “limbs”- simply amounted to a lot of tom-foolery in the black arts.
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In fact, half the time I think it gets its signals crossed and wants us to do both at the same time, dismissing the comic-book tom-foolery even as we admire and exalt the psychological insight and philosophical weighty-ness communicated through said tom-foolery.
On Violence and Restraint in The Dark Knight Ed Howard 2008
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In fact, half the time I think it gets its signals crossed and wants us to do both at the same time, dismissing the comic-book tom-foolery even as we admire and exalt the psychological insight and philosophical weighty-ness communicated through said tom-foolery.
On Violence and Restraint in The Dark Knight Ed Howard 2008
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