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Filled with memorable hooks, from the disco-funk of "Shining Star" and "Yearnin 'Learnin'" to the ballads
AvaxHome 2010
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*Keepz tellin self, Learnin iz gud, nawt old doins maeks min bedder.
I hope to God - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Tying the above with this recommendation allows me the pretense of a theme and therefor an excuse for the above post title: the best "Hey, I'm an Irish Catholic Who Knows Nothing about Islam But I Should Be a-Learnin'" book I've read: No god but God by Reza Aslan.
Archive 2007-04-15 Rogers 2007
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Tying the above with this recommendation allows me the pretense of a theme and therefor an excuse for the above post title: the best "Hey, I'm an Irish Catholic Who Knows Nothing about Islam But I Should Be a-Learnin'" book I've read: No god but God by Reza Aslan.
Islamarama Rogers 2007
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I knew that neo-con lapdogs like Patreaus had a problem with The Book Learnin 'and The Science and stuff, but I really didn't really that they were completely ignorant of history too.
Iraq is NOT Korea, it's more like Northern Ireland and we're the Brits 2007
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For the 1950's he finds an amusing way of segueing from the Frank Sinatra staple "Learnin 'the Blues" to Hank Williams 'country lament, "Your Cheatin' Heart "without losing face, but it's quite a stretch, quality-wise.
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"Learnin 'sure do help a feller to git along in the world."
Three Soldiers John Dos Passos 1933
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"Learnin 'him to be a Volunteer, be sure!" answered Nuncey, her face the colour of a peony.
Shining Ferry Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Learnin 'at an early period that virtue was its only reward, an' a-wish-in 'others, I says to myself:' Jim, 'says I,' if you wishes to become a magnet in this village, be sinful.
The Pursuit of the House-Boat Being Some Further Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades, under the Leadership of Sherlock Holmes, Esq. John Kendrick Bangs 1892
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"Learnin 'to Ride", offers a brilliant distillation of her approach, using the standard horse-breaking analogy for sexual activity (country's equivalent of rock's automotive analogies), but bringing her own peculiar phraseology to bear on the matter: "Tennessee stud took me for a blooming bud/He chewed me up, spit me out just the same/He took my words, spilled my beans into the herd/Now they all look at me with courage and disdain".
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