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I'm continually bewildered that in a country of 300 million we are reduced to an carmudgeon, a somewhat shrill politico, a dandy, and a kid.
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I'm continually bewildered that in a country of 300 million we are reduced to an carmudgeon, a somewhat shrill politico, a dandy, and a kid.
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"He fired the boy, did the ould carmudgeon," said Madame Perrotte in one of her rages, "and druv him off from the town."
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Rather than just raise a [nother] cheer for the man who's spent the last decade-plus jamming the yoke forward on General Motors 'inexorable descent into bankruptcy, the Washington Post carmudgeon decided to rewrite the entire history of the Japanese "invasion" of the American automotive market.
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All that said, why does VF's carmudgeon consider the Maserati Quattroporte a gay car?
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March 18th, 2009 5: 22 pm ET jack the last election day was like thanksgiving, xmas, and the 4th of july all rolled into one. i tried to calm my family down but they call me a black jack cafferty, a carmudgeon. now they call me a geniusi i would like to ask the president what changes he would put into place so NO robber barons could ever hold the country hostage with that too big to fail crap. we do have anti trust laws, remember ma bell? the economic crisis here in new york is so bad that albany is trying to tax everything except air, with no help in sight. i'm headin 'south
sionnach commented on the word carmudgeon
A grumpy mechanic
December 14, 2007