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Chris -- 2018-04-11
The return of the prodigal son was a good enough occasion to kill the fatted calf and tie on the feast-bag. The festive angle might motivate those who think it was a feted calf. References, biblical and otherwise, of the bovine persuasion, can tend to head off in all directions:
Idol viewers — used to being feted on the fatted calves of golden young sex pistols — were hardly going to put up with the seedy Will Ferrell of Bourbon Street for long.
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But here are the feted hits. Images of the worship of golden calves are blended into some of these.
But the forty-eight year old owner whose birth name was Arnold Louis Leibovitz was no ordinary baby boomer in pursuit of the feted calf.
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In the danse macabre of the feted calf of the Nakba, not one expression was there of regret
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How would such a girl react when she discovers she was never of any more value than a feted calf at best, a lowly cur mostly?
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There is, however, a political economy of attention, and in 2004 the blogunculus powered grime’s push from “sonic-innovation lunatic-fringe division feted calf” to “subcultural capital draft pick #1.”
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From then Brandon establishes his own flavor, which is less Chevy Chase and more feted calf (in relation to the messianic aspect).
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The NOSE RING of MAMMONISM a Thing of Worship???? The nose ring of central currency the feted calf etc. take your pick.
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we have somehow worshiped the college-housing gods in the correct way and proceed to slaughter a feted calf in thanks for this blessing
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