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  • Rubbing shoulders with iZ on all three lists is Hasbro's revamped Furby, which now has facial expressions and, in addition to its own garbled language, "Furbish," the ability to acquire basic English skills from its owner.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • “(W) e really care about offering the highest-quality product free of unnecessary chemicals, and our cake flour has been the one product in which we compromised our unbleached stance,” spokeswoman Allison Furbish wrote when I asked about the new flour.

    A New Kind Of Cake Flour 2009

  • Our strongest arguments for a healthy environment are selfish: we want it for ourselves, not for threatened species like snail darters, spotted owls, and Furbish louseworts.

    Kerry Trueman: A Dirty Picture For Patriots Of All Ages 2008

  • In one example, Coulter wrote: "The massive Dickey-Lincoln Dam, a $227 million hydroelectric project proposed on upper St. John River in Maine, was halted by the discovery of the Furbish lousewort, a plant previously believed to be extinct."

    June 2006 2006

  • "Here's the Portland Press Herald, from the year 2000, in its list of the 'Maine Stories of the Century': 'The massive Dickey-Lincoln Dam, a $227 million hydroelectric project proposed on upper St. John River, is halted by the discovery of the Furbish lousewort, a plant believed to be extinct," offered The Rude Pundit.

    June 2006 2006

  • The creatures have a vocabulary of more than 200 words, in both English and their own language, Furbish.

    Fun! Fearless! Furby! 2008

  • Tanks tu ICHC, ai kin nao speek teh English, teh Furbish an nao, teh lolcatspeek!

    invisible ice cream cone - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Furbish, who was involved in putting together the 20-page report for the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction SIGIR.

    10/23/2007 2007

  • River in Maine, was halted by the discovery of the Furbish lousewort, a plant previously believed to be extinct.

    Coulter accused of plagiarism, taking items out of context in another book 2006

  • Mariah: What are your feelings about holding up a multi-million-dollar project that could be used to serve economic and social interests to protect a fairly unknown species-say, the snail darter or the Furbish lousewort?

    Has Jesus Come and Gone? 2006

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