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  • Still Life With pavlov's Cat, after throwing herself into proper pudding and cake preparation in November, is also stricken with summer cold.

    happy Solstice Another Outspoken Female 2009

  • DTL&tsp = 1 but i forget polls are irrelevant to obama fans when they don't reflect positively on their candidate. and now, like pavlov's dog, cue the hillary bashing.

    Hillary's Lead In Pennsylvania Dropping Fast, CNN Average Of Polls Finds 2009

  • They had a voice-actor imitating President Bush at each segment, and when they played a series of quotations by him, the background music was of rural banjo fuges, as though it meant to cue the pavlov's dogs of the listening audience a seeming reference to the movie "deliverance".

    Biased BBC 2009

  • They had a voice-actor imitating President Bush at each segment, and when they played a series of quotations by him, the background music was of rural banjo fuges, as though it meant to cue the pavlov's dogs of the listening audience a seeming reference to the movie "deliverance".

    Archive 2009-01-12 2009

  • So we PCVs are taught, ala pavlov's dogs minus the drooling, to hear alarm bells in our heads as a response to any symptoms that are vague and increasingly discomforting, and we start paying extra attention.

    Archive 2006-06-01 2006

  • So we PCVs are taught, ala pavlov's dogs minus the drooling, to hear alarm bells in our heads as a response to any symptoms that are vague and increasingly discomforting, and we start paying extra attention.

    It's all about perspective and crap 2006

  • Though Bot does imply just a robotic response to what ever m$ dishes out in front of them, kinda like pavlov's dog.

    G4TV - The Feed 2008

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