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  • One evening NetSuite hosted an awards ceremony in which the company gave out its first annual "Hairball" awards in recognition of customers who replaced large numbers of applications with the NetSuite suite.

    E-Commerce Times Denis Pombriant 2010

  • Orchids: An arena full to Ken Corbett for getting the "Hairball" rolling, and to all the volunteers of the Pine Grove 2 Step group for sponsoring the "Hairball" concert at the Hoyt Lakes Arena on March 21.

    Mesabi Daily News 2009

  • Alan Grayson was trying to explain this to Tweety on Hairball last week, and Tweety was so rude and interruptive, Grayson never got it out properly.

    Think Progress » Gibbs responds: I told Ed Schultz he was intentionally lying to ‘get people to watch his show.’ 2010

  • They believe not in Occam's Razor, which argues for building a case on the fewest new assumptions, but in Occam's Hairball, a partially digested lump of every new assumption that has stuck in their craw.

    John Feffer: Bunkum and Debunk 'Em John Feffer 2011

  • In the "Hairball" story that's part of her 1991 collection Wilderness Tips, Atwood describes her character's name this way:

    Dave Astor: An Appreciation of Margaret Atwood Dave Astor 2011

  • They believe not in Occam's Razor, which argues for building a case on the fewest new assumptions, but in Occam's Hairball, a partially digested lump of every new assumption that has stuck in their craw.

    John Feffer: Bunkum and Debunk 'Em John Feffer 2011

  • They believe not in Occam's Razor, which argues for building a case on the fewest new assumptions, but in Occam's Hairball, a partially digested lump of every new assumption that has stuck in their craw.

    John Feffer: Bunkum and Debunk 'Em John Feffer 2011

  • They believe not in Occam's Razor, which argues for building a case on the fewest new assumptions, but in Occam's Hairball, a partially digested lump of every new assumption that has stuck in their craw.

    John Feffer: Bunkum and Debunk 'Em John Feffer 2011

  • And, after much retching, CanWest spit up that Hairball called The New Republic last year. otto says:

    Matthew Yglesias » Wieseltier on the Journalistic Proletariat 2010

  • They believe not in Occam's Razor, which argues for building a case on the fewest new assumptions, but in Occam's Hairball, a partially digested lump of every new assumption that has stuck in their craw.

    John Feffer: Bunkum and Debunk 'Em John Feffer 2011

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