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Logic suggests these are the kinds of frat boy high-jinks you hope to outgrow.
It's Always Something With Balotelli Gabriele Marcotti 2011
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Hack is a misleading word here, as it is less to do with cracking into computers than with hi-tech high-jinks.
The MIT factor: celebrating 150 years of maverick genius 2011
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That Chuck and Sarah's wedding won't go off without a hitch should be of no surprise to fans of the NBC spy series Chuck, but expect some high-jinks from all the events leading up to the big day as well.
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In fact, they should have been congratulated, because they left a lasting impression of good-natured (and at least one was seriously good-looking!) officers, benevolently supervising youthful high-jinks.
Staffs Police Have Some Fun SHOCK!! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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As for me I will go back to hating Jonathan Toss and Russel Boring for their youthful high-jinks; offensive because they are old enough to know better. on January 13, 2009 at 4: 58 am | Reply Ragnar von Spreuth
Purple Pain « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Poor old Nicholas Soames who, in my view, is very far from a buffoon, is nonetheless treated to that description after some inadvisable quad bike high-jinks involving children in a trailer on the public highway.
Archive 2008-01-01 Newmania 2008
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But after veteran Scientology critic Mark Bunker posted a video online warning that such high-jinks would compromise their mission, Anonymous called for a protest at churches worldwide on February 10.
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Then he turns it over to the Barrage Garage Gals to help do some field testing and high-test high-jinks ensue.
Boing Boing 2008
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Poor old Nicholas Soames who, in my view, is very far from a buffoon, is nonetheless treated to that description after some inadvisable quad bike high-jinks involving children in a trailer on the public highway.
Tri -via Newmania 2008
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With great flair Mrs. Dismond reliably revealed to her audience both high-jinks and heartbreak in a black world they might otherwise have hardly suspected of existing.
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