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As someone who's always found Bob Dylan amusing and kind of absurd, I guffawed (at 3 a.m.; scared the opossums) at Idle's startling transformation into ol 'Uncle Bobby, strummin' and harpin 'and bleatin' nearly incomprehensibly about Brian's theme of "Individuals."
Gregory Weinkauf: Not the Messiah: Monty Python Strikes Again! 2010
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I could rave up every song and moment, but editors are people too, so I'll just share three here: 1. As someone who's always found Bob Dylan amusing and kind of absurd, I guffawed at 3 a.m.; scared the opossums at Idle's startling transformation into ol' Uncle Bobby, strummin' and harpin' and bleatin' nearly incomprehensibly about Brian's theme of "Individuals."
Gregory Weinkauf: Not the Messiah : Monty Python Strikes Again! Gregory Weinkauf 2010
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As someone who's always found Bob Dylan amusing and kind of absurd, I guffawed (at 3 a.m.; scared the opossums) at Idle's startling transformation into ol 'Uncle Bobby, strummin' and harpin 'and bleatin' nearly incomprehensibly about Brian's theme of "Individuals."
Gregory Weinkauf: Not the Messiah : Monty Python Strikes Again! 2010
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Naebody has ca'd me by that name sin 'my mither pairted wi' me at the stage coach road, and she was fair chokit wi 'cryin', and when I cudna see her mair for the bush aboon the burn, I could aye hear her bleatin 'like a lamb -- an' it was the gloamin '.
St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles
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"Stop your bleatin ', all of yez!" she commanded in her most authoritative voice.
Sowing Seeds in Danny Nellie L. McClung 1912
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"What am I bleatin 'for?" she said to herself, wiping her eyes on her little patched apron.
Sowing Seeds in Danny Nellie L. McClung 1912
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It was a weak bleatin 'an' I knowed it was a new lamb as was hungry an 'I knowed it wouldn't be hungry if it hadn't lost its mother somehow, so I set off searchin'.
The Secret Garden Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924 1911
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It was a weak bleatin 'an' I knowed it was a new lamb as was hungry an 'I knowed it wouldn't be hungry if it hadn't lost its mother somehow, so I set off searchin'.
The Secret Garden 1911
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"What am I bleatin 'for?" she said to herself, wiping her eyes on her little patched apron.
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"Stop your bleatin ', all of yez!" she commanded in her most authoritative voice.
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