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"text": "Not really fighting over her (puns aside). When you get a current beau and an ex, full of booze and testosterone, meeting up, their common interest isn't much of an issue in the subsequent display of machismo. I think she looks like the back end of a bus but, to them, she was a 'possession'.",
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"text": "Must admit, I like the *original* 911s - the original, late-1960s ones back before they fitted bulgey wheelarches and silly tea-tray rear spoilers. They look much more like delicate, precision instruments compared with the later 'sledgehammer\" versions [which IMHO are about as attractive as the back end of a bus].",
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"ref": "2004, David Platt, “DUCHESS OF YORK NUDE”, in uk.politics.misc (Usenet)",
"text": "You surely can't be comparing Alicia Witt with Sarah Fergusson? Alicia Witt looks stunning, while the duchess of Pork looks like the back end of a bus.",
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"ref": "2005, Will Hadcroft, Anne Droyd And Century Lodge",
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"ref": "2006, \"sheelagh\", \"Bookie: Did you adopt the blind cat?\", rec.pats.cats.health+behav http://groups.google.com/group/rec.pets.cats.health+behav/browse_thread/thread/d6ce604519cdefbb/a5f305d13e68a960?lnk=st&q=%22the+back+end+of+a+bus%22&rnum=10#a5f305d13e68a960",
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"word": "como una nevera por detrás"
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