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  • I was whoring around the internet when the whole hulla bulloo with Crystal and her blog went down.

    Confessions Of A Bad Mother | Her Bad Mother 2009

  • Nunavut, created in 1999 by the ever-PC Canadians means either a corrosion product found on ship's hulla, or "meaning "our land" in Inuktitut".

    Of the war... it lies red.... Ann Althouse 2009

  • Still, in what some would say was an attempt to ameliorate the sense of embarrassment at America's isolation in the world, it was possible to experience a little of the hulla-balloo of this big competition in cafes and bars with screens showing games - and supporters cheering and booing enthusiastically in various US cities.

    Alan Miller: Can Football (Soccer) Change the World? 2008

  • How Casey's story has been lost in the hulla-balloo that almost always is surrounding me.

    Casey Austin Sheehan May 29, 1979 - April 4, 2004 2006

  • I came across some women mock-weeping for the dead: at their elbow two girls were washing clothes, and when little children, catching sight of me, ran to their mothers, the women stopped their hulla-baloo, had a good stare at me, exchanged a few words of mutual inquiry, and then resumed their bellowing.

    Across China on Foot Edwin John Dingle 1926

  • I see old Jackerie in the flap with his pack and bag, his wonted grace and patience, his dolce-far-niente eyes and soft, southern Italian voice, saying, "No hulla-non-enty."

    Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1913

  • You see you set a bad example to the rest and it costs a mint of money to chase you every time, arousing the whole country and having such a hulla-baloo all over a worn-out old slave.

    Sunshine and Shadow of Slave Life. Reminiscences As Told by Isaac D. Williams to "Tege" 1885

  • The giant, who appeared to have lost faith in his hulla-balooing, had again watched him, did exactly as the dog had done, and carried a bear home; but his wife, when she came to go out for it, found nothing but a black stick tied to his belt.

    The Indian Fairy Book From the Original Legends Cornelius Mathews 1853

  • The negro, who saw the huge shaggy quadruped coming straight towards him, at once set up a loud "hulla-balloo," and, with his eyes almost starting from their sockets, was endeavouring to retreat backwards, and get out of the way.

    Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt Mayne Reid 1850

  • All of the talk of innocent passengers lost was dismissed as "hulla-balloo", and they said that they were prepared to do it again.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] BertSchlossberg 2010

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