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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • D is the off-spring of a vampire father and a human mother, making him an ideal killing machine against the vampires.

    Five Best Vampire Hunters | myFiveBest 2010

  • Intergenerational resource transfers with random off-spring.

    SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

  • 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

  • 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

  • So we start to work on another creation, another off-spring.

    stuck. « paper fruit 2010

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