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  • This being a 'family day', there were a lot of corny little things going on in between moments of play, where local businesses sponsored prizes for fun-fair type games - very cute - and even one or two exciting moments in the game itself.

    Princeton Times II Ra 2009

  • This being a 'family day', there were a lot of corny little things going on in between moments of play, where local businesses sponsored prizes for fun-fair type games - very cute - and even one or two exciting moments in the game itself.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Ra 2009

  • Sometimes they ride around the dance floor in a miniature fun-fair bumper car and he calls himself Maria.

    Patricia, I Love You, but This Film's a Downer 2009

  • The onlyeffective means to counter the BNP is through education and dismantling their fun-fair of lies and stupidity in open forums.

    Nunc Scio » Blog Archive » Facebook, Fascists and Advertising 2007

  • We played the Faure A major Violin Sonata together once a lunchtime concert at Emmanuel College, and enjoyed many of those priceless student moments with our many mutual friends - the Guy Fawkes Day fireworks and fun-fair on Midsummer Common, the Darwin College May Ball where we danced together to a Glenn Miller band at dawn, and late-night winter wanders across town from concerts/celebrations along the frosty grass on the Backs.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Jessica 2007

  • We played the Faure A major Violin Sonata together once a lunchtime concert at Emmanuel College, and enjoyed many of those priceless student moments with our many mutual friends - the Guy Fawkes Day fireworks and fun-fair on Midsummer Common, the Darwin College May Ball where we danced together to a Glenn Miller band at dawn, and late-night winter wanders across town from concerts/celebrations along the frosty grass on the Backs.

    My old friend... Jessica 2007

  • No, just the old standby of setting up St Giles Fair for another Monday and Tuesday of garish fun-fair hi-jinks.

    It's that time of year again... drummygirl 2005

  • I hate lying to my friends, I don't like them thinking my life is one big fun-fair 24/7 ..

    fuct-up-girl Diary Entry fuct-up-girl 2003

  • 'All these people,' she said, 'came to me from a closing down fun-fair when I was six.

    Shattered Francis, Dick 2000

  • Kempton Park fun-fair negotiations are calculated to condemn black people to a life of poverty and slavery.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

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