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I forget as a derned Merkin that the BBC isn't the be-all and end-all of British TV - most everything we get over here from Britain is BBC-branded, or at least it feels like it is.
The real-life "Men Who Stare at Goats" were even weirder - Boing Boing 2009
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We usually blame any problems on all the "derned foreigners" i.e. non-Texans that move here, but actually we're all secretly happy that everyone else has figured out that Texas rocks.
Happy Wending! 2010
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“Okay, everybody, get your gosh-derned eyes off of me, now, and focus on McCain”
Beat 360° 10/3/08 2008
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I'm too busy with this derned paper that's due the day I leave!
I love those hard little colored marshmallows... C N Heidelberg 2008
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Who'd willingly surrender use of 1500 acres of timber for some gall-derned peckerwood?
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I noticed that evening that I was fresh as a derned daisy.
Aloe Vera As Deoderant PeaceBang 2006
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I noticed that evening that I was fresh as a derned daisy.
Archive 2006-09-10 PeaceBang 2006
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LOLYep, but for the life of me, I can't understand why you seem to be so derned proud or it ...
US/Mexico relations 2003
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Yep, but for the life of me, I can't understand why you seem to be so derned proud or it ...
US/Mexico relations 2003
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Study after study after study, Brian, has shown that G and PG-rated movies make a lot more than the R-rated movies, but they ` re just derned and determined that they ` re going to produce the type of movies that they want, even though the marketplace doesn ` t want them.
America's Right Turn: How Conservatives Used New and Alternative Media to Take Power 2004
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