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  • I kan't wait til we graduate kuz me livi, britt n whoever elze are going to sum where in our krappy white van with the bean bags in the back, the posterz on the inside, the beadz hangin from the window n graffiti on the side!! lol ya juzt special. so um hmm ... today waz kool. we waz eatin erica'z food wen she wazn't lookin. a taylor twin klazzik.

    clashpunk Diary Entry clashpunk 2003

  • And he waz like "you kan't kome bak to the mall for 24 hourz, what are you doing now?"

    clashpunk Diary Entry clashpunk 2003

  • Alfred's limbs with an anxious expression: "Ef he does you kan't sew 'em an 'I ain't got no yarn thet'll match tu darn' em."

    Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden

  • No, sonny, religun's fur everybody an 'ye kan't thro preachin' bricks ye don't hit somebody.

    Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden

  • "Vell, I toldt heem I vus ashamed mit myself, end he sedt: 'Oh, hell yu kann standt und look myzerbul, kan't yu?'"

    Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden

  • I hope my married life will turn out all right but you kan't never guess whar you're goin 'tu land when yu sail on the sea of matermony.

    Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden

  • If a man _kan't_ laff there iz sum mistake made in putting him together, and if he _won't_ laff he wants az mutch keeping away from az a bear-trap when it iz sot.

    The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) Various 1887

  • But, "he added, with gloomy dejection," there ain't no sand in this yer crowd, thar ain't no vim, thar ain't nothin '; and thar kan't be ez long ez thar's women and babies, and women and baby fixin's, mixed up with it.

    A Waif of the Plains Bret Harte 1869

  • Ye kan't expect a high-toned man to write down to the level of every karpin 'hound, ken ye now?

    The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales Bret Harte 1869

  • "Oh Lord, chile, I kan't belieb it; fur, if he loves us, why does he make us suffer so, an 'let de white folks hab such an easy time?"

    Autobiography of a female slave, 1857

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