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  • While vacationing on the Outer Banks in NC a few weeks ago I watched a guy with a snorkel and spear walk out of the water with a beautiful door-mat founder.

    The Suggestion Box is Open 2009

  • Only your door-mat Republicans who've been instructed by their ministers and clergy will dump hard-earned money for crap like this.

    Obama adviser won't be buying Palin's new book 2009

  • While vacationing on the Outer Banks in NC a few weeks ago I watched a guy with a snorkel and spear walk out of the water with a beautiful door-mat founder.

    The Suggestion Box is Open 2009

  • Mr. Holmes, I am a very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting my foot over the door-mat.

    Sole Music 2010

  • For the first time her kids actually got that freedom of expression did not include the freedom to wipe their feet on her like a door-mat.

    Childhood Unbound Ron Taffel 2009

  • For the first time her kids actually got that freedom of expression did not include the freedom to wipe their feet on her like a door-mat.

    Childhood Unbound Ron Taffel 2009

  • Once 'awakened', social survival strategies can be taken unless, of course, a person wishes to be a perennial door-mat.

    Salaries in Mexico?? 2006

  • A relationship that is being swept under the door-mat like an old pile of dust relevant to some by-gone day.

    Shana Sosin: What Are They Afraid Of? 2008

  • The mistress of the Establishment holds no place in our memory; but, rampant on one eternal door-mat, in an eternal entry long and narrow, is a puffy pug-dog, with a personal animosity towards us, who triumphs over

    Reprinted Pieces 2007

  • When I set him on the door-mat in the hall, he kep me close to him by holding on to my coat-collar, and he whispers:

    Going into Society 2007

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