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By the early aughts an older, wiser Dolours is disillusioned with the meaninglessness of so much bloodshed and pondering what it means to have so many spent matches poking her from inside her pockets.

From Salon

Television footage showed a bomb-defusing robot creeping up to the bag and poking it until it popped with a bright flash.

The Emmy-winning late-night host served Musk’s social media shade right back at him on Thursday, poking fun in his opening monologue that “the guy who paid people a million dollars a day to vote for Donald Trump is calling me a propaganda puppet.”

Styled like a vintage movie poster and not-so-slyly poking fun of those who unironically consider the cannabis plant the evil weed, this was the bestselling T-shirt at the state fair’s California Cannabis Experience merchandise booth earlier this year.

As she went downstairs she could see her mother with her hand on the front door as if trying to close it and a "gun tip" poking through the open door.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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