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There was a great little film called The Lawnmower Man, a Steven King story where a simplistic sort of guy takes this new experimental whatsis and becomes not only the smartest guy in the universe but finally ends up as pure energy.
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He used to be known as "Lawnmower" in his Ajax days, so it may have been unduly lenient of Martin Atkinson not to respond with at least a yellow, but the referee saw it once and ostensibly he reached the ball first.
Tackling is still nowhere as hard as in the bad old days Paul Wilson 2010
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Holden had just managed to break into the Bolton side when, playing a friendly against Holland in March as part of the USA World Cup preparations, an ill-judged tackle of the type that earned Nigel de Jong the nickname "Lawnmower" left him with a broken leg.
Bolton's Stuart Holden: 'I got the x-ray results and thought: not again' 2011
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We saw that "Lawnmower" shuffle you talked about (a low stride), but it keeps on keeping on, steadily.
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Your future is with the Fiat "Lawnmower" division, where you'll still be taking cuts, but at least the lesser mechanics of a 2 stroke Congratulations Ken!
CTV News RSS Feed 2009
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Pittsburgh, 2004 Lawnmower Man, from the series a shimmer of possibilities.
Paul Graham: 'The photography I most respect pulls something out of the ether' 2011
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Is that because they knew that a lot of people like me stopped watching once Jeff "the Lawnmower Man" Fahey showed up and just dropped in to watch it die?
Help me, I'm LOST. The finale. wendigomountain 2010
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Indeed, it was only after moving to Hamburg that, suddenly dropping deeper and tackling harder, the more destructive, ruthlessly efficient "Lawnmower" was born.
Nigel De Jong wishes he was tackling Roy Keane at Wembley 2011
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Fake commercial No. 1 is the best by far; it's for the dance instruction DVD "Bring It Like Bruno," with instructions for dance moves that include "The Sprinkler", "The Lawnmower" and "The Headache."
Florence Henderson is out, Bristol survives on 'Dancing with the Stars' Lisa de Moraes 2010
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The Lawnmower (UID#286) on September 20th, 2009 at 9: 25 am
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