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#1 2015-03-21 12:52:08

DavidTuggy
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From: Mexico
Registered: 2007-10-11
Posts: 2713
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The great massive people (massive < mass of)

There are a number of surveys that have been done that demonstrate the massive people who tend not
to vote are Democratic in nature.

In Malawi, the massive people’s participation in the legislative and presidential elections between April
25th and 29th of 1994 in South Africa show also legitimatized multiparty democracy.

he has the massive people support and authority but not utilizing it.

you miss the massive people you meet over the course of time.

As Thoreau used to say, I have often quoted Henry David Thoreau, “The great massive people lead lives
of quiet desperation.” They just kind of just don’t do anything.

we have been having to edit data consistently on the massive the population in the US since 2009

As the great massive data are generated every moment in OSN, the rapid progress of information
technology provides us with an easy way to …

I rest my case.


*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .

(Possible Corollary: it is, and we are .)

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#2 2015-03-26 07:26:52

David Bird
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From: The Hammer, Ontario
Registered: 2009-07-28
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Re: The great massive people (massive < mass of)

he has the massive people support

Sounds unstoppable. It dawned on me, slowly, that this is the round-tripper for mass of headache, which was a googledeuce back in 2011. Today there are 6 or 7 genuine hits. The web is getting massive.

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#3 2015-03-31 15:33:01

DavidTuggy
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Re: The great massive people (massive < mass of)

Also found on that great massive the Internet:

Because the great massive the vast majority of us know, these two colours seldom display up


*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .

(Possible Corollary: it is, and we are .)

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#4 2015-04-01 12:31:49

kem
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From: Victoria, BC
Registered: 2007-08-28
Posts: 2851

Re: The great massive people (massive < mass of)

And then there is the massive that barks:

Web fiction: “Rory is a big dog, an English Massive.”

Comment on a squeaky toy: “I have an English Massive and he loves this toy!”

Web bio: “I have an English massive named Oliva.”

Mastiff. Are all those people who spell it “masstiff” slipping “mass” into it?


Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.

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#5 2015-04-03 07:17:23

David Bird
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From: The Hammer, Ontario
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Re: The great massive people (massive < mass of)

Or both mass and stiff.

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