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  • I think I recall stubbs posting a thread similar to this one.

    Aussie-Nintendo.com Forums BernkiLOL 2010

  • Photos include Harley the Wonder Corgi, girlfriends wearing tiaras, friends doing things they probably would rather there not be pictures of, and ticket stubbs to a Brooks & Dunn concert.

    What's on Your Desk? 2008

  • Was not in the cards for me this year with new baby, but last year I was able to attend and hit iron works (good) and stubbs (even better) for BBQ.

    Eating BBQ in Austin and Lockhart, TX 2009

  • A zombie MMO with gameplay like stubbs the zombie AND the option to play as a normal human trying to survive: freaking awesome.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Hideo wants to do a Zombie MMO 2007

  • Oh, and stubbs, wingnuts like yourself who dispense advice and opinions create dependency.

    Think Progress » Two Percent 2005

  • Bare metal will hurt when someone stubbs their toes.

    XXS HOUSE | Inhabitat 2006

  • “Look ye, blacksmith, these are the gathered nail-stubbs of the steel shoes of racing horses.”

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • Tilden would take the mutilated stubbs of check-books, and construct a story from them.

    Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail Harry A. Lewis

  • We had absorbed three or four liters of wine and cut up the best part of a leg of mutton, when a great clattering of shoes is heard; I blow out the candle stubbs, by the grace of my shoe, and every one escapes under the beds.

    Sac-Au-Dos 1907 1877

  • Three salutations shouted at a lad of about sixteen, who had just shown himself at the edge of a wood on the sunny slope of the Southwolds, one glorious September morning, when the spider-webs were still glittering with iridescent colours, as if every tiny strand were strung with diamonds, emeralds and amethysts, and the thick green moss that clothed the nut stubbs was one glorious sheen of topaz, sapphire and gold.

    The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias George Manville Fenn 1870

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