pooh-bah

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YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Today we learned that the Feds unloaded Bernie and Ruth Madoff's Montauk, NY beach house for well over its $8,750,000 asking price and yesterday we learned the publishing pooh-bah Jann Wenner and his long time man-friend Matt Nye scooped up a new vacation house just down the beach.

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  • Definitely not the persona of a grand pooh-bah of basketball. —  Kentucky.com: Homepage
  • According to Dan DiDio, grand pooh-bah of the DC Comics superhero books, this four-issue, bi-weekly miniseries will reveal the political affiliations of most of DC's major spandex characters in September and October. —  The Four Color Media Monitor
  • Our pandering pooh-bah politicians forgot, or never knew, what President Theodore Roosevelt said:
  • Scott Hanlon, owner of a 3-year-old labradoodle (which looks like a black lab, but claims to be one-fourth poodle) is the self-appointed grand pooh-bah of these wagging wanna-bes. —  Pasadena Star-News Most Viewed
  • "What she proved today was that she has the wheels," declared Bill Squires, the grand pooh-bah of all New England racing. —  Boston.com Most Popular
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