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  2. Dunnie - Wikipedia

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    A Dunnie is a small Brownie-like being in the folklore of the Anglo-Scottish borders, specifically Northumberland, the most famous being that of the Hazlerigg Dunnie of Hazlerigg in the parish of Chatton, Northumberland. [1]

  3. British humour - Wikipedia

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    The An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman joke format is one common to many cultures, and is often used in English, including having the nationalities switched around to take advantage of other stereotypes. These stereotypes are somewhat fond, and these jokes would not be taken as xenophobic (by the Englishman telling them).

  4. God Shuffled His Feet - Wikipedia

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    The album was the band's biggest mainstream hit. AllMusic writer Stephen Thomas Erlewine attributes the album's success to "Jerry Harrison's remarkably clear and focused production" and that "apart from the relatively concise pop smarts of the singles "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" and "Afternoons and Coffeespoons," God Shuffled His Feet isn't all that different from the band's first album."

  5. Hands Off...She's Mine - Wikipedia

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    The single was the first release on the band's newly created record label Go-Feet and was released as a double A-sided single with "Twist and Crawl" in the UK as there were opposing thoughts in the band as to which song should be the A-side. [3]

  6. Stand Down Margaret - Wikipedia

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    "Stand Down Margaret" is a song by English ska and new wave band the Beat, released as a double A-side single with "Best Friend" in August 1980. It is one of the band's most political songs, referring to the want for the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to resign.

  7. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    Let not the sun go down on your wrath; Let sleeping Aussies lie; Let sleeping dogs lie; Let the buyer beware; Let the cat out of the bag [15] Let the dead bury the dead (N.T.) Let the punishment fit the crime; Let well alone; Let your hair down; Life begins at forty; Life is too short not to do something that matters.

  8. Herbert Huncke - Wikipedia

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    Born in Greenfield, Massachusetts, and raised in Chicago, Herbert Huncke was a street hustler, high school dropout, and drug user.He left Chicago as a teenager after his parents divorced and began living as a hobo, jumping trains throughout the United States and bonding with other vagrants through shared destitution and common experience.

  9. Signifyin' - Wikipedia

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    Rudy Ray Moore, known as "Dolemite", is well known for having used the term in his comedic performances.While signifyin(g) is the term coined by Henry Louis Gates Jr. to represent a black vernacular, the idea stems from the thoughts of Ferdinand De Saussure and the process of signifying—"the association between words and the ideas they indicate."