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...heels th' size of hockey pucks, Emma's cute little shitkickers and Ellis' golden drugstorecowboy suit. I 'specially liked what th' two thugs (Laurence Thomsen n' Eric Oleson) wear: plaid bellbottoms n' white chaps, respectively (n' the yo-yo is a nice touch, Laurence). Not too accurate--no self-respectin' Westerner would be caught dead wearin' these costumes--but creative noneth'less...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Just a Story About Some Cowboys | 7/19/1988 | See Source »

...this, children pay $2.25, adults $2.75, all rides included. And since no self-respectin' Texan so much as pulls on a pair of boots unless they're air-conditioned, all the waiting areas for the Six Flags rides are bathed in curtains of cool air. Moreover, up in the native oak trees are 103 electric fans so powerful that if they were all dipped into the Gulf at the same time, they would drive Texas six feet into New Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spectacles: Under Nothin | 8/18/1961 | See Source »

...Adolphe Menjou has apparently profited from his recent star-chamber experience for he is convincing as a machine politician. Whether machines are as harmless as Tracy suggests is still unclear. Yet though his head is in the clouds, his toes are down among the grass roots, and no self-respectin' man or woman can failed to be moved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/30/1948 | See Source »

...Wottadamshame--Quit yer blubberin' there O'Shame! Ye'll disgrace me Court, I'tell ye. Fwhy can't ye set down 'n enjoy the pitchers in the Gazette like a dacent, self-respectin' policeman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/27/1925 | See Source »

...Shame -- Yer Honor, it's more 'n a dacent, self-respectin' policeman kin shtand, the way they're pokin fun at the Irish. Cast yer eye at this. (Pulls a Lampoon of April 15 out of his pooket Reads:) Religion an shquash service. Shall the Cathedral uv Sint Archibald th' Iguostic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/27/1925 | See Source »

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