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Chris -- 2018-04-11
From commenter SenSational at the Puck Daddy hockey blog: “Wow New Jersey is in whirl of hurt. Not only can’t they ice a full team cause of the cap but they are the most in debt team in the League.”
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A surprising and delightful eggcorn, Ruddy. Lots of nice examples can be found on the web. It’s the roundtripper of whirlwind >> world wind (also here) but who could see this coming. One of those nice ones that make as much sense as the original.
It started as a burp. When his forehead started sweating, he knew he was in for a whirl of hurt.
http://www.horrorbound.com/readarticle. … cle_id=198
Simblings:
Rock concert review
seeing all those sexy gals did me a whirl of good…
Fight club
knees do make a whirl of difference in a fight
Here’s another roundtripper, but on another track:
Meditation technique
Interesting and very different approach compared to what I’ve come across. I’ll definitely give it a world and repost my experience with this approach!
Virtual desktop
After I saw this article, I was inspired to look for Dexpot again and give it a world.
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