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And still, every time they get "beaned" by Putin's riot police.

Oleg Kozlovsky: Vladimir Putin Calls to "Bean" Protesters With Batons 2010

And still, every time they get "beaned" by Putin's riot police.

Oleg Kozlovsky: Vladimir Putin Calls to "Bean" Protesters With Batons 2010

It's based on a long-running American comic strip, begun in 1913 by cartoonist George Herriman, in which the feline central character is repeatedly "beaned" by a mouse called Ignatz, "beaned" meaning to be hit on the head by a well-aimed brick.

Tête à Tête festival 2010

The player had been "beaned," and his fear of a recurrence was so strong that he became "plate shy."

A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis Melvin Powers

Lapidus gets one of the lines of the evening, the subject of this post, which were his parting words before getting beaned by a metal door.

Aw, hell : Bev Vincent 2010

In August, the Bieb was beaned with a water bottle.

Is Justin Bieber wearing makeup? Do we care? Liz Kelly 2010

This is good news indeed, and not only for those of us who have been following the Essex youngster's career ever since he was rushed to A&E after being beaned by Kevin Pietersen during a net practice at Loughborough when he was 15.

Let's drink to the dobbers – cricket's decaf bowlers | Harry Pearson 2011

Maybe all that walking into glass doors and getting beaned with water bottles was Justin Bieber's way of telegraphing to MTV execs that not only is he a hit with the kids, as they say, but capable of spontaneity, physical humor and mayhem that stops just short of "Jackass" level hijinks.

Rumor Mill: Justin Bieber gets 'Punk'd' Liz Kelly 2010

Temperature didn't much affect the initial probability of getting beaned, a rebuff to the theory that it's harder to control pitches on hot days.

Week in Ideas Christopher Shea 2011

At games played below 60 degrees Fahrenheit, if an opposing batter had been beaned, the likelihood of a batter being hit, in any single subsequent at-bat, was 0.71%.

Week in Ideas Christopher Shea 2011