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Examples
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Thus was born the Vagabond, a.k.a. Chauncey Throttlebottom III, the first bumfighter.
Boing Boing 2007
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More significantly, if a candidate for No. 1 is forced to choose someone he doesn't want then the potential president, not the would-be veep, would be the true Throttlebottom.
Martin Nolan: ''The Vice President is The Only Person The President Can't Fire.'' 2008
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How to fill an office which no one but a Throttlebottom can want, with a man of the highest respectability, well known, and of established reputation throughout the United States?
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"Governor Throttlebottom, what is your position on gay marriage?"
"'We must make equality for gays and lesbians a mainstream concern,' Mr. Romney wrote..." Ann Althouse 2006
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How to fill an office which no one but a Throttlebottom can want, with a man of the highest respectability, well known, and of established reputation throughout the United States?
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Many of them starred Caroline and a pony, and in his stories she frequently won the Grand National horse race, beating a Miss Shaw and Mrs. Throttlebottom.
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