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  • If you read the original posting you'll see that Stephen Haffner, the Big Poohbah of Haffner Press (his title, not mine) helped me in tracking down the status of the titles.

    The Most Eagerly Awaited and Long Overdue SF/F Books 2007

  • Either way, Ellen wants to meet with the Poohbah, be eight different kinds of charming at him, buy him a drink, etc etc etc.

    ana-ng Diary Entry ana-ng 2009

  • I believe no Pope, no Grand Worshipful Poohbah, no Shaman, no magic Enchanter, and so on, will ever destroy Christ's Church.

    The Journeys of the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer 2009

  • HBL said something today about how I'll be "Productions Manager" when Joel leaves, but I don't know if that means I'll be the 3rd Salaried Poohbah, or if that's just a temporary title till she hires someone real.

    ana-ng Diary Entry ana-ng 2009

  • The skepticism extended up to the Oval Office and to the man who had appointed Baruch to head the committee—“that old Poohbah” is the way Roosevelt had once described Baruch.

    The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

  • The skepticism extended up to the Oval Office and to the man who had appointed Baruch to head the committee—“that old Poohbah” is the way Roosevelt had once described Baruch.

    The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

  • But since it references our grand leader at HuffPost (the HuffPost Poohbah?), I've "repurposed" (as I am told they say In Hollywood) the posting by shoving it into my high-priced real estate at the HP blog.

    David Corn: MIA at Progressives' Conference: Iraq 2008

  • I attended Easter Sunday services with a Catholic girlfriend years ago, and remembering the phrase “Sunday best” and assuming that Easter Sunday would be the Grand High Poohbah of Sundays, I went in a suit and tie.

    The Ignorant Leading the Uninformed | Motivational Humor from the Motivational Smart Ass! 2008

  • No, it isn't, because if newly-elected PPLC Grand Poohbah and wielder of the royal PPLC toilet brush Rod Bruinooge insists on describing that collection of retarded misfits as a "Parliamentary Caucus," then we the taxpayers have every right to know who's in it, and what they're doing as our duly-elected MPs.

    The PPLC: Names, dammit! We want names! CC 2008

  • No, it isn't, because if newly-elected PPLC Grand Poohbah and wielder of the royal PPLC toilet brush Rod Bruinooge insists on describing that collection of retarded misfits as a "Parliamentary Caucus," then we the taxpayers have every right to know who's in it, and what they're doing as our duly-elected MPs.

    Archive 2008-12-01 CC 2008

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