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Then he got trounced by Ron Paul for not serving in Vietnam – and frankly, claiming to be the off-spring of a soldier doesn't make up for that.
New Hampshire Republican debate - live: Mitt Romney versus the rest 2012
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Kiss was, and stupefying still is theater, pomp and bombast; a distorted blitzkrieg off-spring of a Jerry Lee Lewis piano assault, a Jimi Hendrix guitar fire, The Who's instrumental auto-destruction, an Iggy Pop chest carving, and whatever crazy crap Peter Gabriel or Frank Zappa ever dreamed up.
James Campion: Why the F#@! Isn't Kiss in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? James Campion 2010
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I dont think the justice system will ever get rid of everyone willing to be violent, even if they were all locked up for life there would still be their off-spring waiting in the wings to take up where mum and dad left off. on March 4, 2009 at 8: 29 pm | Reply frontrowhero
“Ruralshire Constabulary to get TASER on the front line” « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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I reported back then that the sperm bank was urgently trying to locate all the recipients of this particular doctor's donations and make a geographic registry of where his off-spring landed.
Diane Dimond: Laws to Catch Up With Science Diane Dimond 2011
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They could still have held this additional off-spring in one of the ship's remaining half-dozen gestopods until they investigated the planet's on-site suitability.
First Contact Ed Higgins 2011
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D is the off-spring of a vampire father and a human mother, making him an ideal killing machine against the vampires.
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Intergenerational resource transfers with random off-spring.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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This method of determining sex, called haplodiploidy, ensures that sisters are more closely related to each other than to their own off-spring.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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Off-spring inherit individual instructions genes from their parents such that round and wrinkly parents produce either round or wrinkly off-spring and not something in between.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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So we start to work on another creation, another off-spring.
stuck. « paper fruit 2010
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