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  • That's one Hwood wag's comment on the dubious claim that Speed Racer made even $20 mil this weekend.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Ed Gorman 2008

  • That's one Hwood wag's comment on the dubious claim that Speed Racer made even $20 mil this weekend.

    Trying to dress up a pig Ed Gorman 2008

  • The socalled globalisation has brought in funny mores, and our only consolation is a wag's comment: things will get a lot worse before it gets better.

    Baneful Media 2008

  • Apropos of nothing, just one wag's perception: The idea behind terrorism is to create such horrors among the civilian population that the people will force their leaders to change their policies.

    OpEdNews - Diary: America Back on Track... for Friday, July 25th 2008

  • Otherwise, below you'll find an extract from some wag's vision of what would happen if masked vigilante Rorschach went to Comic-Con in search of openings as an artist.

    Rorschach's Comic-Con Diaries DAVID BISHOP 2008

  • Mention of Martin Amis brings to mind some wag's description of him as being "nasty, British and short."

    Bravo Dickens ... Frank Wilson 2006

  • The result of this duel Professor Matthews does not tell, but if the wag's _colichemarde_ was as swift and penetrating as his wit, we may surmise that his opponent of the Code Napoléon and the code duello had a fourth shirt spoiled.

    American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Julian Street 1913

  • Like the infidel, they knew how to preface their acts by an intelligent deliberation, so that the device of Prince Boleslas of Pomerania, was always present to them: "First weigh it; then dare:" Erst wieg's: dann wag's!

    Life of Chopin Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886 1877

  • But we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

    Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900) 1871

  • But we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

    Middlemarch 1871

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