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  • As if one alternating flash forwarding and flash backwarding, time-jumping universe wasn't enough to wrap our minds around.

    Mania News Feed 2010

  • I'm not sure why everyone on here isn't pleased with the video, looks aren't everything the story board and the feelings that come out of the singer is what makes the video. heyyy he has to look this way he is trying to send msg to some ppl but u guys just commenting without thinking, don't u think that the wars are backwarding us to the cave days, so don't u think that he's look is a great msg? and the song is great, it's unique. and i liked that he sang for both countries ya3ni he hasn't forgot his second country

    WALEG 2009

  • I'm not sure why everyone on here isn't pleased with the video, looks aren't everything the story board and the feelings that come out of the singer is what makes the video. heyyy he has to look this way he is trying to send msg to some ppl but u guys just commenting without thinking, don't u think that the wars are backwarding us to the cave days, so don't u think that he's look is a great msg? and the song is great, it's unique. and i liked that he sang for both countries ya3ni he hasn't forgot his second country

    WALEG 2009

  • "And now, after all this backwarding and forwarding, and that hotel clerk, and that bug Bellairs, it'll be a change and a kind of consolation to see the schooner.

    The Wrecker 1898

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  • (noun) - A change from excessive joy . . . to mourning, like that for a child dying after the rejoicings on its being christened. I told my old gardener, as I was returning from a funeral, that the last time I had driven to the same church was on the occasion of a gay wedding. "Ah," he said, "there is always a bacarding."

    --Edgerton Leigh's Glossary of the Dialect of Cheshire, 1877

    January 16, 2018