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Hung out with my parents, went to the beach and won scrabble with 'vied'. bonus: learned word skimble-scamble from websters raygun01: sites: androidguys, phandroid (my fav), androidandme, droid-life, androidcentral, androidspin ... forum: xda-developers. net.
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Hung out with my parents, went to the beach and won scrabble with 'vied'. bonus: learned word skimble-scamble from websters raygun01: sites: androidguys, phandroid (my fav), androidandme, droid-life, androidcentral, androidspin ... forum: xda-developers. net.
CNET News.com 2010
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June 10, 2010 at 2:22 pm mmm, dats a gud brand of bloodee mary mix! skimble has gud taste!
Wut’s wif - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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For most of us ordinary folk, the authorship wars are irrelevant, "skimble-skamble stuff" (in Hotspur's phrase), and "Shakespeare" means interchangeably the man and his works.
Shakespeare, Center Stage Frances Taliaferro 2008
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The author surely would not have us suppose that the wretched, skimble-skamble stuff which the latter is made to talk is any fair representative of the arguments by which the Church of Rome maintains its dogmas and vindicates its claims.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Various
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But in the passage before us -- in his assertion that "the converse must be heightened with all the arts and ornaments of poetry" -- it is hard to resist a vision of the dramatist first writing his dialogue in bald and skimble-skamble prose, and then wringing his brains to adorn it "with all the arts" of the dramatic
English literary criticism Various
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I vented was just a deal of skimble-scamble stuff, a verbal syllabub of balderdash.
The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell 1918
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In the first five lines of this skimble-skamble stuff I hear Shakespeare speaking in his cheapest way; with the oath, however, he tries to get into the character again, and succeeds indifferently.
The Man Shakespeare Harris, Frank, 1855-1931 1909
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In the first five lines of this skimble-skamble stuff I hear Shakespeare speaking in his cheapest way; with the oath, however, he tries to get into the character again, and succeeds indifferently.
The Man Shakespeare Frank Harris 1893
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All his skimble-skamble talk about psychology and hypnotism, and that other rambling discourse of pirate caves and buccaneering cruises, made me feel sometimes as if I were about to form a partnership with Aladdin, or the King of the Golden Mountain.
Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic Herbert Quick 1893
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