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The Republican know that their arguement against healthcare reform rings hollow so they have to shout to put the spotlight on the decible level instead of the substance.
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Fans, earplus (the green lower decible ones) and your own soft music can mask sounds so your mind can slow down.
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Drunk boor at the next table would NOT shut up -- screaming in a psuedo Chris Rock/redneck accent, MFer every other word, at a decible that shouldn't be legal.
Crushing 2008
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The thought of him owing them something is laughable to the highest decible.
Richardson: Clinton supporters 'clinging to the throne' 2008
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Suddenly Borgnine straightened up, threw out his massive chest and bellowed, "What's going on here?" followed by his signature high-decible laugh.
Archive 2007-01-21 Bill Crider 2007
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They are usually hard of hearing too so the conversations are high decible and inescapable.
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They are usually hard of hearing too so the conversations are high decible and inescapable.
Interlude 2007
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They are usually hard of hearing too so the conversations are high decible and inescapable.
Interlude 2007
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September 7, 2008 at 3:58 pm oof. yeah, mai decible had a yuneek wai of expressin his displesr at mee to. he wud yak up a harbl rite on mai bedspred. an yu kant do anyfing about it eifer, wuns yu heer teh *hurk* nois, is alllll ovr.
u cant seez - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Yet, the more of that they do, the worse things get, and it all comes across as high-decible screeching at the choir.
"If you were really savvy, you'd 'manipulate' the media into a stampede of lurid drivel deriding her as a Stepford wife and a dominatrix..." Ann Althouse 2008
bilby commented on the word decible
Feebel.
September 26, 2008