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  • Instead of resisting, I gave in to my impluse to sleep it off.

    Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2009

  • I did sort of impluse buy the tank already: it's hexagon shaped and five gallons.

    Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2009

  • Or to increase reflexes and overall speed the nanotech would bridge the gaps between the cells in the nervous system in order to past the electrical impluse along more quickly.

    Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Which Origin Stories are Plausible? 2008

  • I keep saying I want to do some research before we settle on a fish, but the truth is, I'll probably walk into A World of Fish with the 20% off coupon they so nicely sent me in the mail and impluse buy the first fish that looks at me funny.

    Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2008

  • At the time I happened to be in the middle of reading one of their books, but after that, I put it down halfway through and haven't felt the slightest impluse to pick it up again.

    Hero Worship 2008

  • On and impluse, I did a search for old Interzone covers on google images, and came back with this site which holds most (if not all) the covers of Interzone from Issue 1 to Issue 199, which strangely enough is exactly where I started subscribing to it.

    Interzone Cover Archive | SciFi UK Review 2007

  • Our first impluse when confronting disagreement is to choose sides, dig in and start tossing bombs, just like everybody else.

    Ferraro: The Obama Camp "Have Played The Race Card Time After Time After Time" 2009

  • On and impluse, I did a search for old Interzone covers on google images, and came back with this site which holds most (if not all) the covers of Interzone from Issue 1 to Issue 199, which strangely enough is exactly where I started subscribing to it.

    SciFi UK Review | Archive | July 2007

  • With less credit card bills to pay for, trading down your car, so your car payment is lower, not buying on impluse, maybe, just maybe, you can really relax and enjoy what you do have.

    Of Resuscitating Old Shoes, Relocalization and Toxic Globalism 2008

  • Wikipedia grew out of a natural impluse (communication) facilitated by a new technology (the wiki).

    The Hive 2006

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