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Oh yass iz berry gud dai, Mai goggies nawt haz teh hartwurmz so dem nawt needz teh pleh medicinz.
Caturday Conga Line - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Maybe if I'm a game publisher with salaries to pay and shareholders on my yass, and an 85/15 split of testosterone poisoned slash, bang, pow addicts already priming the pump for sports, fighting, combat and RPG games, and they keep buying the same stuff...
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Ah had one hunnerd dollahs in mah pants pocket, yass, sah. Nex 'mohnin' Ah woke up th'ee days lateh 'boa'd ship bound foh London.
The Mutineers Charles Boardman Hawes
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Dey's enough meat dah to feed a whole regiment of Sigambeezel cavalry -- yass, sah, ho'ses and all.
The Mutineers Charles Boardman Hawes
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"A little roun 'hole in the back of his head -- yass, sah -- he was shot f'om behine."
The Mutineers Charles Boardman Hawes
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But all at once the cook, near whom I was standing, grasped my arm and muttered almost inaudibly, "If dey was to look behine, dey'd get ahead, yass, sah."
The Mutineers Charles Boardman Hawes
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"Are you McGilp's man?" said I. "Man, yass," says he, and all his body would seem to be very glad; and then I questioned him of his whistling, and got his story from him.
The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars
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Dey's gwine dance, dey is, yass, sah, on de end of a rope, and after dey's done dance a while dey's gwine be leetle che'ubs, dey is, and flap dey wings and sing sweet on a golden harp.
The Mutineers Charles Boardman Hawes
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"I'll do hit, seh, yass seh!" said the negro, as he climbed on the box and jerked the lines.
The Cab of the Sleeping Horse John Reed Scott
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"Yass, sah, yass, sah, we done share up with dat yeh Kipping and dah ain't no mo 'to speak of at all, sah."
The Mutineers Charles Boardman Hawes
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Others have roots in the LGBTQ ballroom scene (“slay”, “yass”, “queen”).
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