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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Over 800 raw hits. A “scow” is a large, flat-bottomed boat used for hauling loads – like garbage. “Scowl” is what you do when you find yourself downwind of a garbage scow. Examples:
One proposal called for “a classic garbage scowl.
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology … 710-1.html
Well, if and when we go again, it will not be on this Commodore ship. This ship looked more like a garbage scowl than a cruise line.
http://www.epinions.com/trvl-Cruise_Lin … y_~reviews
I believe the Klingons called the Enterprise a ” garbage scowl”.
http://board.uscho.com/archive/index.ph … 9-p-2.html
Then when your small pod has drifted for a seemingly “intermediate amount”
of time in endless space, the pod is picked up by a “robot run” garbage
scowl merely as a piece of trash in outer space.
http://www.atariarchives.org/cfn/12/03/0034.php
This story makes no sense. I mean, why would they report a garbage scowl lost?
http://godlikeproductions.com/bbs/messa … d65fca4ca9
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