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Examples
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He patterned his administration as if he were shaking the exhumed skull of Ronald Reagan like a magic 8-ball.
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FEINGOLD WON'T RUN IN 2012 - Now that progressives have vigorously rubbed their teeth and punched the walls after snorting the 8-ball of Elizabeth Warren's exploratory committee, they are coming down fast with the Quaalude of Russ Feingold's announcement that he will not seek office in 2012 eh, it was worth a shot.
HUFFPOST HILL - Democrats Give In Two Weeks In Advance Eliot Nelson 2011
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WHAT WENT WRONG: Having to start almost from scratch in his first year, Dickey Nutt was behind the 8-ball before the injuries hit.
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At times, I treated it like the magic 8-ball, attempting to have my future told to me but the answers KGB provided made me smile and completely made my day!
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Is it just me, or are comments from Marvel writers/editors starting to resemble a magic 8-ball? i.e.,
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You get one bad shot and you're behind the 8-ball.
Campbell shows way with 65 on day for scoring at Masters 2009
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They lost six out of their first seven out of the break, basically putting them behind the 8-ball for the rest of the season.
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I mean, you look at their uninterrupted decades of failure and failure, and you realize that a monkey shaking a magic 8-ball would have a better record.
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I have my opinion, but the only mechanism for determining which opinion is * right* or not is to speak up, add my voice to the pile, and then let the market/history/a magic 8-ball take the entirety of that clamouring Babel into account to find out what the balance is.
Mike Mearls Strangles Realism In D&D Like It’s An Unruly Hooker « Geek Related 2009
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WHAT WENT WRONG: Having to start almost from scratch in his first year, Dickey Nutt was behind the 8-ball before the injuries hit.
sionnach commented on the word 8-ball
Where does the phrase 'behind the 8-ball' come from?
January 8, 2009
reesetee commented on the word 8-ball
Billiards, I believe. Wait....
Here you go.
January 8, 2009