Timbuktoo

• “He, and all Republicans, can move to Timbuktoo for all I care ......”

  Huckabee explains decision to become Florida resident

• “Harrison Bergeron was also part of "Between Time & Timbuktoo" in 1972.”

  Wednesday Matinee: Harrison Bergeron

• “He bought his land (for a dollar an acre) from a wealthy abolitionist named Gerrit Smith who had established a land grant program for free blacks in hopes of establishing a black community in the Adirondacks called Timbuktoo.”

  Alfred Gingold: John Brown's Body Lies A-Moldering in Upstate New York

• “You are a cassowary on the plains of Timbuktoo and I claim my five pounds.”

  This can't end well

• “I'd consider it a personal favor if you'd take out all the big words, like Constantinople and Timbuktoo, so I could read it too.”

  Overcome the first marketing hurdle

• “I can promise you that the words Constantinople or Byzantium and Timbuktoo are not in it.”

  Overcome the first marketing hurdle

• “Pretty things and not those huge, hollow, cardboard things from Timbuktoo that you see most of the year.”

  Strawberry Trifle

• “I don't think there is a person alive who hasn't had strawberries from Timbuktoo.”

  Strawberry Trifle

• “Crazy Jake followed Timbuktoo into the no-man's land of the old railyard with a mixture of hope and disbelief.”

  Burning Water

• “Imagine, a thousand years ago, setting out for Mecca from Timbuktoo, how perilous might be the journey in terms of the Sahara - broiling heat by day, bitter cold by night, shortages of food and water, sandstorms, brigandage and banditry, disease and death the constant stalkers of the caravan.”

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