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• She'll probably wait until Archie dies, then move in a couple of hundred hairball-hurling cats. —  Michaels, Kasey - Too Good To Be True.html
• He makes a noise, like a cat quietly coughing up a hairball, and drops the butt back in the dish. —  ADangerousMan
• Multi-cat food will also manage hairball issues, which arise from grooming -- something cats in multi-cat households may end up doing more of.
• The social conservatives / fundie whackjobs, AKA the Repug Base, are so desperate to see someone as hypocritical as they are on the ticket (as hypocritical as McCain is, he's not near hypocritical enough for them, oh nosiree!), and as desperate as McCain is to solidify them behind him, Palin is what got coughed up like a hairball to fill the need. —  Alternate Brain
• Seeking a way to trim irrelevant parts of the "hairball" and focus on the most important connections, the Lindquist lab collaborated with Ernest Fraenkel's lab in the Department of Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. —  HHMI News

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