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  • If her dad moves to timbuctoo..so what. "life as she knows it is over" sounds like a middle schooler moving to ..yanno..

    12/17/2006 - 12/24/2006 Miss Snark 2006

  • If her dad moves to timbuctoo..so what. "life as she knows it is over" sounds like a middle schooler moving to ..yanno..

    Hh Com 335 Miss Snark 2006

  • If her dad moves to timbuctoo..so what. "life as she knows it is over" sounds like a middle schooler moving to ..yanno..

    Archive 2006-12-17 Miss Snark 2006

  • And in response to the previous review .. does my dishwasher cook me diner? timbuctoo

    Fileforum 2009

  • i am as dry as the next morning mouth of a dissipated desert as dry as the hoofs of the camels of timbuctoo little fussy face

    archy interviews a pharaoh 1927

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  • (or Timbucktoo)

    Archaic version of Timbuktu (along with other such terms whose transliteration has changed over the years, the older version often carries imperialist overtones); both are used to signify a place very far away indeed.

    November 19, 2007