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  • Although, my brain offered helpfully, most movie whackings did begin with the obligatory Get in the car.

    The Faculty Club Danny Tobey 2010

  • Although, my brain offered helpfully, most movie whackings did begin with the obligatory Get in the car.

    The Faculty Club Danny Tobey 2010

  • Although, my brain offered helpfully, most movie whackings did begin with the obligatory Get in the car.

    The Faculty Club Danny Tobey 2010

  • Although, my brain offered helpfully, most movie whackings did begin with the obligatory Get in the car.

    The Faculty Club Danny Tobey 2010

  • Although, my brain offered helpfully, most movie whackings did begin with the obligatory Get in the car.

    The Faculty Club Danny Tobey 2010

  • “And got a couple proper whackings from Theo when I did it, too!”

    Sudden Rain Maritta Wolff 2009

  • Even got the medals to celebrate and congratulate my group's whackings of Hadjis..then their abandoned armor when they decided they faced something a whole lot personally worse than waterboarding or panties on the head humiliation...and beat feet.

    Why did Obama pick Leon Panetta — a man with no significant experience in intelligence — to head the C.I.A.? Ann Althouse 2009

  • The violence there, punctuated by a vomiting bystander, has roughly the same symbolic content as the gawking crowd standing outside the Bing last week: we who have been gleefully watching these whackings for the last decade are ghouls.

    Gerry Canavan 2007

  • The violence there, punctuated by a vomiting bystander, has roughly the same symbolic content as the gawking crowd standing outside the Bing last week: we who have been gleefully watching these whackings for the last decade are ghouls.

    Gerry Canavan 2007

  • The episode inspired a lot of kvetching from the sorts of fans who are always put out when an episode doesn't feature a dozen whackings and a glossary full of Italian curses.

    The Sopranos: Back So Soon? - Tuned In - TIME.com 2006

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