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  • So, tell me, this job only pays $21K/yr (or similar) and they gripe about how pooly paid and over-worked they are in the Legislature, yet this is the 5th or 6th person that wants this seat?

    Go, Roberta (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • Virtually all serious injuries I have seen were caused to people who do not know how to ski or race but thought they did, by skiing out of control, having poor or pooly maintained equipment, and not knowing how to react once they fell.

    Richardson’s Accident Reignites Ski Helmet Debate - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

  • This simple little house with its invitation to outside brings back the tradition of the Southern rural small house which, unfortunately, has been replaced by pooly designed (and dangerous) trailers in too many places in the rural South.

    KATRINA COTTAGE wins People’s Choice Award | Inhabitat 2006

  • I think we all agree that the CCC concept is a travesty to cakedom, but why are they typically so pooly done?

    Monkey See, Monkey Doo-Doo Jen 2008

  • Yet, the swagger and bravado that always seems to show up when we have chosen the wrong way to achieve our pooly concieved goals leads me to believe that as I said at the start of this rant - Futility appears to be the operative word.

    Think Progress » A Progressive Exit Strategy 2005

  • And such cities as lie well to the sun and winds, and use good waters, feel these changes less, but such as use marshy and pooly waters, and lie well both as regards the winds and the sun, these all feel it more.

    On Airs, Waters, And Places 2007

  • * Strange, don't you think, that an idle conversation carried on in a bar by a bunch of pooly informed slobs in the middle of the night wouldn't arrive at a sound conclusion. posted by Slimbolala link

    Archive 2005-07-01 Slimbolala 2005

  • * Strange, don't you think, that an idle conversation carried on in a bar by a bunch of pooly informed slobs in the middle of the night wouldn't arrive at a sound conclusion. posted by Slimbolala link

    Butterbeer : The Gateway Drug Slimbolala 2005

  • It's as limp as a boy of six's doing his pooly behind a cart.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • The long shadows of the grove at Only were thrown towards us across the pooly waters.

    The end of an era, 1899

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