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"ref": "2006, Brigid Lowry, Guitar Highway Rose, Macmillan, page 29",
"text": "I bet Thomas McSmart-arse makes some dumb comment about my nose-ring.",
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"ref": "2007, Martha Kimes, Ivy Briefs: True Tales of a Neurotic Law Student, Simon and Schuster, page 173",
"text": "And when she's not at the Law Review office, she's out with her goddamn Law Review friends. Goddamn Art McAsshole and goddamn Lisa Von- Bitchypants and the worst — the very worst — is that goddamn Charlotte Sidwell.",
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"ref": "1983 Wallace Marx, \"It's Not How Long You Make It,\" New York Magazine, Vol. 16, No. 50 (19 Dec 1983), p11",
"text": "Sesame Street is \"McEducation.\" Like things served by the golden arches, Sesame Street has at once elevated the dregs and lowered the quality to mediocrity"
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"ref": "1995 Christopher Lloyd, Linda Morris & Vic Rauseo, \"Dark Victory,\" Frasier, Season 2, Episode 24 (aired 23rd May 1995), spoken by Niles Crane (played by David Hyde Pierce)",
"text": "Two years of hard work wiped out by one of your 2 minute McSessions!"
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"ref": "2003, Anthony Wright, British politics: a very short introduction, Oxford University Press, page 35",
"text": "Some of the techniques have been imported from the United States, but Britain's tight political and media village is now the European market leader in this kind of McPolitics.",
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"ref": "1968 Eddie Jefferson \"Filthy McNasty\" (lyrics for a 1961 instrumental of the same name by Horace Silver)",
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"ref": "2005, Daniel J. Hill, Divinity and Maximal Greatness, Routledge, page 44",
"text": "Alternatively, one may make the example a bit sharper by discussing a being, call him 'McStupid', that always knows who he is, but knows nothing else.",
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"ref": "2006, Brigid Lowry, Guitar Highway Rose, Macmillan, page 29",
"text": "I bet Thomas McSmart-arse makes some dumb comment about my nose-ring.",
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"ref": "2007, Martha Kimes, Ivy Briefs: True Tales of a Neurotic Law Student, Simon and Schuster, page 173",
"text": "And when she's not at the Law Review office, she's out with her goddamn Law Review friends. Goddamn Art McAsshole and goddamn Lisa Von- Bitchypants and the worst — the very worst — is that goddamn Charlotte Sidwell.",
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"ref": "1983 Wallace Marx, \"It's Not How Long You Make It,\" New York Magazine, Vol. 16, No. 50 (19 Dec 1983), p11",
"text": "Sesame Street is \"McEducation.\" Like things served by the golden arches, Sesame Street has at once elevated the dregs and lowered the quality to mediocrity"
},
{
"ref": "1995 Christopher Lloyd, Linda Morris & Vic Rauseo, \"Dark Victory,\" Frasier, Season 2, Episode 24 (aired 23rd May 1995), spoken by Niles Crane (played by David Hyde Pierce)",
"text": "Two years of hard work wiped out by one of your 2 minute McSessions!"
},
{
"ref": "2003, Anthony Wright, British politics: a very short introduction, Oxford University Press, page 35",
"text": "Some of the techniques have been imported from the United States, but Britain's tight political and media village is now the European market leader in this kind of McPolitics.",
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