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  • Folks who grew up watching Edgar Bergen perform with his dummies (Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd) -- or Shari Lewis work with her famous sock puppet (Lamb Chop) -- took those characters to heart.

    George Heymont: Specialty Acts -- From Vaudeville to Blue Man Group George Heymont 2011

  • Folks who grew up watching Edgar Bergen perform with his dummies (Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd) -- or Shari Lewis work with her famous sock puppet (Lamb Chop) -- took those characters to heart.

    George Heymont: Specialty Acts -- From Vaudeville to Blue Man Group George Heymont 2011

  • Jesus also wanted one of those Mortimer Snerd ventriloquist dummies, if i remember correctly.

    WHOSE REVIEW WOULD JESUS QUOTE? 2007

  • The way he's been going on lately one would have to think he, rather than the widespread assumption of his having been the puppet master who animated George "Mortimer Snerd" Bush, is himself being manipulated by an unseen hand.

    Steven Weber: Dick Cheney: We Done Him Wrong 2009

  • They are the products of interbreeding between the Mortimer Snerd family.

    Why are so many Democrats still doubting Obama? Ann Althouse 2008

  • A lesser-known but equally effective technique is "Pride and Ego," "Ego Up/Ego Down," or (as the more pretentious Kubark Manual puts it) "Spinoza and Mortimer Snerd," in which the "Ego Down" part involves repeatedly asking questions that the interrogator knows the subject cannot answer.

    The Dark Art of Interrogation 2003

  • A lesser-known but equally effective technique is "Pride and Ego," "Ego Up/Ego Down," or (as the more pretentious Kubark Manual puts it) "Spinoza and Mortimer Snerd," in which the "Ego Down" part involves repeatedly asking questions that the interrogator knows the subject cannot answer.

    The Dark Art of Interrogation 2003

  • Of course he flirted with the likes of a Mortimer Snerd and and an Effie Klinker but they didn't gain the popularity of Charlie.

    Crooks and Liars David 2011

  • Per the article referenced below, Barack "Mortimer Snerd" Obama has quite effectively deceived

    unknown title 2009

  • It appears that our country is being lead by "Mortimer Snerd".

    unknown title 2009

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