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  • September 3, 2008 at 6:26 pm wish I cood but there seems to a carnival goin awn in my hed tonite, the steem caliope goin full blast Dee dee dee dee deet dee dee dee, and the midway barkers hollerin Step Rite up, just one thin dime thass right frens , and the belss on the carosel binging and the gurls shreilin on de ferris wheel, and I kin even smell the poppycorms.

    i can has chiropractor? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Fortune comes a calling, a powerful fate confronts our generation, following it's muse (caliope woman) who helps us to question and form our own radically different understanding.

    The WELL: Saint Stephen Robert Hunter 2004

  • Just irrational, perfect, sweet derangement and anger, spinning down to the odd sounds of something that's almost a polka, almost a war-cry, and almost something out of a nightmare ... but fortunately, without the caliope.

    jaxraven Diary Entry jaxraven 2001

  • A caliope was playing Xmas carols, and lightsigns were flashing messages SALVATION IS NOW!,

    Tek Lab Shatner, William 1991

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