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Is anyone else picturing these cookies wearing little fondant bow-ties and top-hats, maybe even holding a sugar cane?
Archive 2008-12-01 Jen 2008
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Is anyone else picturing these cookies wearing little fondant bow-ties and top-hats, maybe even holding a sugar cane?
Fetal Bites Jen 2008
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It works, especially later on with the gold lamé leotards and top-hats.
Rachel Sklar: Liveblog! GOP Black Voter Forum: Half The Candidates, Double The Fun! 2008
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Why should we not escape from or condemn the 'grim Assyrian' absurdity of top-hats, or the Morlockian horror of factories?
Why Fantasy? 2007
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I say that for all the "guys on stilts wearing mime makeup and Cat-in-the-Hat striped top-hats" Taibbi notices on the left, I see an equal number, at least, of Althousean clowns on the right, as this blog documents.
Archive 2007-06-01 Ann Althouse 2007
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Each of them was wearing an oversized top-hats made of green felt.
drbigbeef Diary Entry drbigbeef 2005
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Men in shiny top-hats marched ominously up and down the paths.
Flush: a biography 2004
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“Dogs must be led on chains” — there was the usual placard; there were the park-keepers with their top-hats and their truncheons to enforce it.
Flush: a biography 2004
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Behind came twenty or twenty-five gentlemen on foot in the modern ineffectiveness of frock-coats and top-hats, and after them eight or ten closed carriages.
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Where there are flower - beds there are asphalt paths; where there are flower-beds and asphalt paths, there are men in shiny top-hats; where there are flower-beds and asphalt paths and men in shiny top-hats, dogs must be led on chains.
Flush: a biography 2004
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