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The take-out menu is from a Hana Food in Brooklyn and comes complete with new penned-in names for its "Gay Boy," "Butter Face" and "The Illegal" sandwiches.
PHOTO: Offensive Sandwich Menu Gets Hilarious Corrections The Huffington Post 2011
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The take-out menu is from a Hana Food in Brooklyn and comes complete with new penned-in names for its "Gay Boy," "Butter Face" and "The Illegal" sandwiches.
PHOTO: Offensive Sandwich Menu Gets Hilarious Corrections The Huffington Post 2011
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On the one hand, he kept me on a very specific course, and on the other hand, allowed me not to feel penned-in because I like to experiment a lot.
Mike Ragogna: Review: My Morning Jacket "Unstaged," Plus Chatting with Erykah Badu and James Tormé Mike Ragogna 2011
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On the one hand, he kept me on a very specific course, and on the other hand, allowed me not to feel penned-in because I like to experiment a lot.
Mike Ragogna: Review: My Morning Jacket "Unstaged," Plus Chatting with Erykah Badu and James Tormé Mike Ragogna 2011
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The take-out menu is from a Hana Food in Brooklyn and comes complete with new penned-in names for its "Gay Boy,""Butter Face" and "The Illegal" sandwiches.
PHOTO: Offensive Sandwich Menu Gets Hilarious Corrections The Huffington Post 2011
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The take-out menu is from a Hana Food in Brooklyn and comes complete with new penned-in names for its "Gay Boy,""Butter Face" and "The Illegal" sandwiches.
PHOTO: Offensive Sandwich Menu Gets Hilarious Corrections The Huffington Post 2011
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Mr. Meyer recommends 3,000 square feet of penned-in yard for a couple of billies, an acreage decidedly suburban rather than urban.
Putting the Park in Park Avenue Eric Felten 2011
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We want a say in everything and we don't want our opinions penned-in by party lines or garbled by career politicos.
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We want a say in everything and we don't want our opinions penned-in by party lines or garbled by career politicos.
Revolution.com 2010
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Still, though we might feel sorry for penned-in pigs and cooped-up chickens, we show no loss of appetite for shoving fast, packaged food down our necks.
Royals ride to the rescue Derek Brown 2010
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