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  • June 21, 2010 at 12:10 am issa roob goldburg skwirrl feedur!

    Video: Action Squirrel - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010

  • Aww, poor Rubster. roob-ster, don't hit me Kev! we got hit by a thunderstorom last night...

    Sigh. 2008

  • ‘Hush!’ said Barney: ‘stradegers id the next roob.’

    Oliver Twist 2007

  • Here are some common muqabbilaat: rubyaan (roob-yan; shrimp) baadhinjaan (bah-zeen-jan; eggplant)

    Arabic for Dummies Bouchentouf, Amine 2006

  • "Oh, we had quidt a sharb shower," said A. Fish, Esq., "ad I was afraid of gettig wet, so we stopped a 'bus -- there was odly roob for two though, ad the Wallypug said thad he would cub od by the dext."

    The Wallypug in London Alan Wright 1910

  • "Let me give 'em a roob, my lad," he said; and strongly, but not unkindly, he rubbed and seemed to knead my arms, especially the muscles above my elbows, talking softly in a gruff murmur all the while.

    Patience Wins War in the Works George Manville Fenn 1870

  • Prue, and beseeching her to remember that there was a distiwisht officer ithe rex roob, who would overhear her.

    The History of Henry Esmond 1852

  • 'Hush!' said Barney: 'stradegers id the next roob.'

    Oliver Twist Charles Dickens 1841

  • Mr. Esmond could hear him coaxing and speaking in that maudlin manner, which punch and claret produce, to his beloved Prue, and beseeching her to remember that there was a distiwisht officer ithe rex roob, who would overhear her.

    The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

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