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  • I'm not going to explain how this comes about (too much blah-blah), but basically, you get five minutes of soldiers eating each other.

    intertribal: who's a sexy chick? (damn, gurl!) intertribal 2010

  • I'm not going to explain how this comes about (too much blah-blah), but basically, you get five minutes of soldiers eating each other.

    who's a sexy chick? (damn, gurl!) intertribal 2010

  • It might seem that Sal Paradise is impatient to get beyond the usual recording of scene -- "chatter-chatter, blah-blah" -- but Kerouac uses that impatience to motivate Sal's creation of an alternative way of writing that mosty avoids fancy phrasing and obligatory dialogue (although Kerouac's novels have plenty of dialogue -- it's just not of the ornamental variety) without sacrificing an attention to language to the exigencies of plot.

    Style in Fiction 2009

  • It might seem that Sal Paradise is impatient to get beyond the usual recording of scene -- "chatter-chatter, blah-blah" -- but Kerouac uses that impatience to motivate Sal's creation of an alternative way of writing that mosty avoids fancy phrasing and obligatory dialogue (although Kerouac's novels have plenty of dialogue -- it's just not of the ornamental variety) without sacrificing an attention to language to the exigencies of plot.

    Kerouac the Writer 2009

  • I walked down to the river, and I had to ride back to New York in a bus coming back from a weekend in the mountains -- chatter-chatter, blah-blah, and me swearing for all the time and the money I'd wasted, and telling myself, I wanted to go west and here I've been all day and into the night going up and down, north and south, like something that can't get started.

    Kerouac the Writer 2009

  • β€œIt's yakety-yakety this and blah-blah that, when you ought to keep your trap shut.”

    TGIF Bob Lamb 2012

  • Of course, that's sort of a phony blah-blah statistic, as Rex Ryan and last season's playoff Jets would hasten to point out.

    It's Time to Embrace Off-Broadway Joe Jason Gay 2011

  • I'm sick of hearing thatFacebook is "a waste of time," "why do you care about what people had for lunch?" and all the other common blah-blah they say.

    Joe Moreno: Social Media Week, I Mean Social Media Life Joe Moreno 2011

  • If you have ever written to your MP about pro-life or pro-family issues and received a boiler-plate reply about social consensus and Canadian values blah-blah, you may feel misunderstood and silenced.

    ProWomanProLife » Some politicians are of course pro-life 2010

  • I walked down to the river, and I had to ride back to New York in a bus coming back from a weekend in the mountains -- chatter-chatter, blah-blah, and me swearing for all the time and the money I'd wasted, and telling myself, I wanted to go west and here I've been all day and into the night going up and down, north and south, like something that can't get started.

    Style in Fiction 2009

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