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  • Anything to keep the rube's minds off the problems.

    He's Back - NASA Watch 2008

  • The point is that looking at the nominal state business tax rates is a rube's game, meant to mislead,and isn't really a measure of what states are good or bad for businesses.

    And What About SAG? Steve Hulett 2009

  • The point is that looking at the nominal state business tax rates is a rube's game, meant to mislead,and isn't really a measure of what states are good or bad for businesses.

    And What About SAG? Steve Hulett 2009

  • "Wonder what gods-forsaken corner that rube's from?"

    Time Scout Asprin, Robert 1995

  • "Looks like the poor rube's goin 'to tear off some more sleep," commented

    Shoe-Bar Stratton Joseph Bushnell Ames 1903

  • But what the sharp or confidence trickster really wants to see in the mark's face is not stupidity, it's vulnerability, absolute loneliness, and then that insistent, wheedling voice inside will be the rube's final and only friend - like "that unspeakable blood-joined twin" described by Donald Newlove, the smiling psychic fetch, the resident djinn who whispers, "I'll come too, buster."

    Comments for RealityStudio wal 2010

  • I'm fighting the urge to excuse another dismal international failure through the evocation of rinkydinkism, the belief that United's lameness is forgivable by dint of its financial constraints (and concurrent rube's pride at personal loyalty to such a rinkydink institution).

    Soccer Blogs - latest posts 2008

  • I'm fighting the urge to excuse another dismal international failure through the evocation of rinkydinkism, the belief that United's lameness is forgivable by dint of its financial constraints (and concurrent rube's pride at personal loyalty to such a rinkydink institution).

    Soccer Blogs - latest posts 2008

  • I'm fighting the urge to excuse another dismal international failure through the evocation of rinkydinkism, the belief that United's lameness is forgivable by dint of its financial constraints (and concurrent rube's pride at personal loyalty to such a rinkydink institution).

    Soccer Blogs - latest posts 2008

  • I'm fighting the urge to excuse another dismal international failure through the evocation of rinkydinkism, the belief that United's lameness is forgivable by dint of its financial constraints (and concurrent rube's pride at personal loyalty to such a rinkydink institution).

    Soccer Blogs - latest posts 2008

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