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  • Couldn't you just jump to, "I have written an amateur dective novel of 100,000 words."

    Archive 2006-09-17 Miss Snark 2006

  • NYPD dective in a helicopter on the day of the attack, saying this week that he was part of a plan to rescue people from the roof.

    uggabugga Quiddity 2010

  • Hiding place Usage: The dective followed the suspect until he led them to the cache where he had store his loot.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2010

  • The Pathfinder Williams used "will be taken to a crusher" and the stolen lingerie and rope he bound his victims with will be burned, the case's lead dective said.

    Thestar.com - Home Page Joanna Smith 2010

  • We're going to have to give you a dective nme ... oh, btw ... thanks, I joined the DoFOLLOW community!

    Paula Mooney's Tips - Get blog readers and make money online... 2009

  • You can equipt your child with a cell phone, enable it with GPS tracking, hire a private dective to follow them but short of handcuffing them to your arm and never blinking you cannot state you know where they are and what they are doing at all times, but that is how it is supposed to be.

    unknown title 2009

  • With the cars, the way people talk, and the all around dective type feel to it.

    Comic Book Movie 2009

  • We're going to have to give you a dective nme ... oh, btw ... thanks, I joined the DoFOLLOW community!

    Paula Mooney's Tips - Get blog readers and make money online... 2009

  • I would vote for Chuck with all the geek, comic and fanboy references, and Psyche, for it's whitty take on dective work meeting slacker lifestyle.

    tonymorganlive.com 2008

  • I would vote for Chuck with all the geek, comic and fanboy references, and Psyche, for it's whitty take on dective work meeting slacker lifestyle.

    tonymorganlive.com 2008

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