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  • My most prized posession is the Superman sleeper that both my daugthers have worn when they were younger.

    Send us your shelf porn! | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

  • But pink was out, and the green was a rather strange, icky green, so I am now in posession of a blanket of a really lovely light blue.

    Blue. kittenpie 2008

  • The other thing that cracks me up is that the lefties are hell-bent on giving the keys to the asylum to the Evil Poor, but the Evil Poor are, more often than not, in posession of some extremely right-wing views.

    Best Of 2008 « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

  • But pink was out, and the green was a rather strange, icky green, so I am now in posession of a blanket of a really lovely light blue.

    Archive 2008-05-01 kittenpie 2008

  • The Company realizing they are in posession of the most powerful man in the world are both mean to him and obviously keeping him jailed?

    TV Roundup : #comments 2007

  • Intelligence on the ground has been able to tell him that the Taliban have been omnipresent since the U.S. led invasion and yet despite being in posession of this information he feel felt content to lead people in to believing that the Taliban had been routed.

    Think Progress » Rumsfeld Promises To Defeat The Taliban After Claiming In 2002 It Was Defeated 2006

  • He also doesn't condition on the bacterial precursor and the systems posessed by the precursor (or, the probability of those systems being in posession by the precursor).

    Demarcation, Credentials, and Science Education 2005

  • He also doesn't condition on the bacterial precursor and the systems posessed by the precursor (or, the probability of those systems being in posession by the precursor).

    Demarcation, Credentials, and Science Education 2005

  • As someone in posession of thousands and thousands of books, most of which are frankly horrible artefacts, made of crappy pulp and printed and bound by the cheapest means available, I'm utterly taken by the Slashdotter's plan to strip the bindings off his tech library, scan the books and OCR them for his computer. 95 percent of the books I own would be more useful to me as bytes than atoms -- I'd love to do this.

    Boing Boing: May 5, 2002 - May 11, 2002 Archives 2002

  • The minute he’s caught with the gun the brother is a “felon in posession” and is going back to prison ... if they bother to take him to trial for the salm-dunk charge.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Mayor Bloomberg’s gun show bill 2010

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