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  • Inventor of the patent pending range Bill Anderson hopes Dead Wringers will let the public really get a grip on celebrity, and put some much needed colour and fun back into politics.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Thatsnews 2008

  • Nominate candidates and watch “Dead Wringers - The Movie” at www.deadwringers.com

    Archive 2008-04-01 Thatsnews 2008

  • I worry that the HWA - the Hand-Wringers of America - will add to their membership and continue to bash our country ad nauseam.

    Hullabaloo 2004

  • I worry that the HWA - the Hand-Wringers of America - will add to their membership and continue to bash our country ad nauseam.

    Hullabaloo 2004

  • To launch Dead Wringers - a mischievous new range of celebrity salt and pepper grinders - dead ringers for Boris and Ken will be wringing the necks of each others’ Dead Wringers outside City Hall, The Queen’s Walk, London SE1 2AA at 2.30pm on Tuesday 15th April.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Thatsnews 2008

  • "_Wringers_, large long bars of iron to wring the furnace, that is to clear it of the grosser and least fluid cinder which rises on the upper surface, and would there coagulate and soon prevent the furnace from working aright.

    Iron Making in the Olden Times as instanced in the Ancient Mines, Forges, and Furnaces of The Forest of Dean 1846

  • "_Wringers_, large long bars of iron to wring the furnace, that is to clear it of the grosser and least fluid cinder which rises on the upper surface, and would there coagulate and soon prevent the furnace from working aright.

    The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account 1846

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