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Wikipedia is simply funny, and a great study for anthropologists figuring out how busybodyness becomes government; how the Establishment creates a quasipopulist face.
Wikipedia Tries Approval System to Reduce Vandalism on Pages - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Anyway, fortunately, there are millions of other blogs out there in the blogosphere, Janey, so take your “busybodyness” elsewhere.
triangles 2007
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Buechner calls it the challenge of living in "a society where there is such pontificational opinion, such condemnation, such busybodyness about others -- to the point of hatred and violence."
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Joanne Herman 2009
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You’re not going about this … this busybodyness properly.
The Year of Living Scandalously Julia London 2010
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You’re not going about this … this busybodyness properly.
The Year of Living Scandalously Julia London 2010
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