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Swift's Namby Pamby talk (see _OED_ under _Namby Pamby_) and his
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Similarly, the band itself plans to start calling themselvesThe Namby-Pamby Handy-Dandy Warhols, staring with their next release,Completely Fucking Worthless& Useless Shit, which is coming out this January on Portland's Poseurfuck Records label.
Not Again! Christopher Snyder 2010
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As for your comments Ian, yes, stuff ‘Mamby Pamby’ its about time we got away from all this woolly government led nonsense and we had ‘laws’ that did not need authorisation at every turn from some non descript political drone. on December 29, 2007 at 5: 35 pm | Reply nightjack
Dog Charlie Fox « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007
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Mr. PINKWATER: Namby and Pamby are better for poodles.
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Is it hardly surprising, Madam, that Those who seek the Shelter of Academick Bowers would also seek Redress from every possible Word & Action that could violate their feeble Sensibilities, and that Byzantine Rules & Star Chamber Courts should have sprung up to enforce the Namby-Pamby among effete Students & spineless Professors?
"I encourage conservative and libertarian — or just mischievous — students to flood the system with complaints about anything that offends them." Ann Althouse 2008
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Simplicity of the Place and People; where he got together all that Rigmayroll of Childrens talk, which composes his _Namby Pamby_.
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Though _Namby Pamby_ was not added to the first edition of the _Key_, it appears in the second edition.
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The first seven (1726-27) appeared during Carey's life, and these (I have seen all but the third) contain the _Namby Pamby_ verses which later appeared under Carey's own name in his enlarged _Poems on Several Occasions_ (1729).
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Poem, called _Namby Pamby_, which, by most People, is taken for a Banter on an eminent Poet, now in
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The reader need look no further than _Namby Pamby_ to see that Carey satisfies Northrop Frye's very proper observation: "Genius seems to have led practically every great satirist to become what the world calls obscene."
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