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  • It was with the wild success of Lethal Weapon and its awful sequels that a goonish showing off became forefront.

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  • The point isn't simply that their goonish emissaries were inept in their interviewing methods.

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  • That means somehow persuading Soweto residents to start paying rent and utility bills, and persuading the goonish self-defense units to lay down their AK-47s.

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  • And no amount of goonish background sword dancing can come close to making up for that.

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  • Ian is now a jobbing stage ie panto actor, even though he's still the goonish wannabe kid's TV host he always was.

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  • Venerate the plucky underachievers, the invariably white gritty second baseman up from Double-A, the goonish defenseman from Moose Jaw.

    Foul Lines Jack McCallum 2006

  • But it doesn't, and occasionally Goose come over a bit Depeche Mode and attempt an icy-cool mid-tempo electro stance that sits so awkwardly with the goonish larking around of the rest of the album that it wedges a dirty great spanner in any momentum Goose had been building up, like the host of a party stopping things to straighten their tablecloths, Girl and Bring It On Down being two particularly duff moments.

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  • On the other hand, if Rio dawdles about being all goonish and lets Trinidad score against England, people will probably build models of Rio and set them on fire.

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  • Venerate the plucky underachievers, the invariably white gritty second baseman up from Double-A, the goonish defenseman from Moose Jaw.

    Foul Lines Jack McCallum 2006

  • Fortunately, my level-headed intellectual friend, Dan, snatched the flag from the goonish cop and returned it to the workers.

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