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  • Clench your chest Mr Cheney because the big one will come soon ...

    Senator: Cheney and alleged secret CIA program 'a problem' 2009

  • Clench those bloated, sweaty paws around that straw iban and hold on tight!

    Sound Politics: Darcy Burner, Gunslinger 2006

  • Clench fists, rip paper, carve the wall with my teeth, just anything to help me ignore her standing behind me, working me away piece by piece.

    super-suzan Diary Entry super-suzan 2006

  • Sadly it seems that as Clench Jaw and Shakey-Legs wander the eastern seas in search of political Valhalla, they are becalmed in the Sea of Hyperbole.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Ed Hollett 2006

  • Clench your hand into a fist,” said Chris, “and with a loose wrist, tap along the top of your shoulder, the side of your neck and as far down your back as you can reach.”

    Mates, Dates: Besties: Cathy Hopkins 2002

  • "Clench muscles, hold for twelve hours, release for a count of five, then clench again."

    The Bonesetter's Daughter TAN, Amy 2001

  • A Clench does not require the divine authority of the Father Church to organize BUT it does risk DIVINE LAWSUIT if it does not PAY FOR the basic supplies needed or, if the Clench does its own manufacturing of said articles, the RESIDUALS thereof “Bob” requests a mere 25%.

    The Book of the SubGenius The SubGenius Foundation 1983

  • The “Clench” concept—that we should band in local groups—was CONSPIRACY THINKING and we Hierarchies, by virtue of Sacred Erasibility, now DENY that doctrine.

    The Book of the SubGenius The SubGenius Foundation 1983

  • A Clench of One, or Solo Clench, is every bit as holy as a giant one with a choir, even if the lone hermit merely sits in his Chamber of Solitude exercising sacred Couch Potatoedom, so long as he does it diligently and with commitment to Slack.

    The Book of the SubGenius The SubGenius Foundation 1983

  • The main goals of each Clench: to proclaim the Word, that Subs can gain Slack and be saved, and Pinks shamed; to provide spiritual, material, and sexual marketing and trading between the Children of “Bob”; to cast out the False Prophets and to heed no other World Religion for more than 17 days.

    The Book of the SubGenius The SubGenius Foundation 1983

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