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On a "lost floor" of the Daily Planet building, rookie copyboy Floyd Perkins runs afoul of a bald, pointy-eared alien, human conspirators, and Humphrey Bogart.
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Instead these pointy-eared punks live in squats, stealing electricity, food, clothes, whatever they need to survive, always in danger of being caught by the fuzz, who'll clip their ears if they catch them -- causing them to grow up after all, the worst possible fate a Borrible can imagine.
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The calm, "noble," pointy-eared dog – also called Xolo SHOH'-loh, comes in three sizes.
The Most Popular Dog In America AP 2011
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I snapped my attention back to the pointy-eared prig.
Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011
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The most enchanting offerings, though, surely come from the book illustrators, from Victorian fairy painter Richard Doyle's tangled woods secreting gangs of pale, pointy-eared imps to Wayne Anderson's decidedly 70s dragon, with its lattice of diamond-shaped scales in oranges, yellows and browns.
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You may also capture the essence of the first series, or latest photographs and get dressed up as Kirk, Dr. McCoy, Uhura, Chekov, Scotty, Sulu, and the pointy-eared Vulcan, Spock.
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The calm, "noble," pointy-eared dog – also called Xolo SHOH'-loh, comes in three sizes.
The Most Popular Dog In America AP 2011
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I snapped my attention back to the pointy-eared prig.
Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011
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He kept his composure the best his training would allow, but, Nate took him apart quietly (that comes from his mom) when he started asking pointy-eared questions about the logic of his position, I leaned back and said to Val Burton, sitting next to me, she was looking at a proud father watching his son being fed a ration of you-know-what and not accepting it at face value.
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Elves are neither pointy-eared pixies or jaded immortals, but a race split between those who remain in magic-drenched Otherworld and those who live on earth as mortals.
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