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  2. The Brown Noser - Wikipedia

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    The founders then stormed the Undergraduate Council of Students meetings covered in body paint until they received funding sufficient to print The Noser five times a semester. [3] The first article was "Brown Noser to Replace Daily Herald as Campus's Premier Comedy Newspaper," a joke on Brown University's oldest publication, The Brown Daily ...

  3. Brownie points - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford English Dictionary conjectures that this expression could also have derived from U.S. military slang for sycophants, "brown-nosers", while also mentioning the popular etymology that derives it from the awards system of the Brownies. The term "brownie" in the sense of "brown-noser" was in use in the 1940s.

  4. Sycophancy - Wikipedia

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    Other scholars have suggested that the sycophant, rather than being disparaged for being motivated by profit, was instead viewed as a vexatious litigant who was over-eager to prosecute, and who had no personal stake in the underlying dispute, but brings up old charges unrelated to himself long after the event. [5]

  5. Use of nigger in proper names - Wikipedia

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    A shade of dark brown used to be known as "nigger brown" or simply "nigger"; [18] other colours were also prefixed with the word. Usage for colors continued for some time after it was no longer acceptable for people. [19] Nigger brown commonly identified a colour in the clothing industry and advertising of the early 20th century. [20]

  6. The Brown Jug - Wikipedia

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    It was published in this form until 2015, as part of a collective of Brown comedy groups, along with Improvidence, Starla and Sons, and The Brown Noser, known as the "Brown Barrel." [8] In 2019, the Jug returned as an independent magazine, styled after the short-form structure of the 1920s and 30s. It continues to be published in print once per ...

  7. Cialis Side Effects: What to Expect (& How to Avoid Them) - AOL

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    Another word for muscle pain, myalgia affects muscles, ligaments, tendons, and connective tissues. In clinical trials of Cialis, one to four percent of men reported muscle pain as an adverse effect.

  8. The joke is over – get Mrs Brown’s Boys off the BBC - AOL

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    I was chatting, a few months ago, with a comedy legend who had, in the past, written for Brendan O’Carroll’s sitcom, Mrs Brown’s Boys.I confessed, quite blithely, that I – like everyone I ...

  9. List of regular mini-sections in Private Eye - Wikipedia

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    Order Of The Brown Nose (O.B.N.) [ edit ] Highlighting the behaviour of those who have allegedly been sycophantic to those in authority, particularly in media and politics, such as Phil Hall , former editor of the News of the World (owned by Rupert Murdoch ) declaring Rupert Murdoch "the world's greatest living journalist."