How To Use Weir In A Sentence
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It was a bit like the rowing boat trying to make headway against the flow of the river near the weir.
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I felt that weird shifting movement and a feathery light object grazed my bare skin.
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They are weird stubby boats, and you have to do a lot more work to propel and keep them on a straight course through the water.
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And it's weird, no one really gets angry at me for piking ... they just seem to look down on me, if you get what I mean.
Stupid
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Driving from Brooklyn to Oregon next week; What weird should I espy?
Boing Boing
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Uncle Fliakim Sheril, furbished up in a new crisp black suit, and with his spindleshanks trimly incased in the smoothest of black silk stockings, looking for all the world just like an alert and spirited black cricket, outdid himself on this occasion in singing _counter_, in that high, weird voice that he must have learned from the wintry winds that usually piped around the corners of the old house.
Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know
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I think we have to distinguish those narratives which crudely manipulate fear or repulsion and disgust from that which Lovecraft correctly calls ‘the weird tale’.
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Flying in very high altitudes does weird things to him and can easily lead to an MS relapse.
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Oh, yes, they make those weird, two-wheel gizmos you have to stand on that you see Kevin James riding around in in his latest movie Paul Bart : Mall Cop - it's a comedy.
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The second set also starts of in a rollicky jamming way with a Stranger and a Cumberland to write home about, but then the band slows down and you get a sleepy Gloria and a communally weird Do It In The Road where "everyone" sings.
Bt.etree.org
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Follow the river upstream from the weir for about two hundred yards and you will come to a clearing.
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Also, I have this weird need to be the bendiest and stretchiest in class, and to have the teachers notice and comment on said bendy-stretchiness, preferably where other people can hear.
Ampersand
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COURIC: Yes, I was going to say that ` s a weird use of the word glib, but whatever.
CNN Transcript Jun 27, 2005
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People on telly are always weird about that, but how hard is it to just say hello to people and be polite?
The Sun
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Although his home is currently in Bridge of Weir, most of his time is spent criss-crossing the globe to oversee the Business Network Division's operations.
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Yet had Jeffrey Curtain kept at scrivening for twoscore years he could not have put a quirk into one of his stories weirder than the quirk that came into his own life.
Tales of the Jazz Age
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He and his mates are laughing and jeering at their next-door neighbour: a crazy old man, stripped to the waist, performing what looks like some kind of weird callisthenics routine in his backyard.
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She knew it well -- the weird note of the hunting banth.
The Chessmen of Mars
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Fish, especially Arctic char were caught in weirs and traps and taken using fish spears.
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She cleared the table as they were eating, following, as always now, her own weird domestic schedule.
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Beginning in 1972 they exposed teratocarcinoma cells to a very strong chemical agent that caused mutations, and then injected the mutated cancer cells into mice to see if there was a genetic pattern to the weird variations that grew out of the tumor; as a control they injected other mice with unmutated teratocarcinoma cells.
Vaccinating Against Cancer
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A trust has restored three weirs already, and plans are under way to rebuild another seven.
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What if I have to spend tomorrow, yet again, in that weird state of tearful, jet-lagged exhaustion that lack of sleep creates?
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Divorcing himself from feelings, he comes up with a weird comparison between human beings and galliwasps.
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This was a side effect of the Industrial Revolution; many of our rivers were canalised and made navigable during the C19th which stuffed it all up with weirs and locks and pollution.
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A native, popeyed with terror, had dropped to his knees in front of the weird - looking "spaceman.
Golden State
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When levels are low, a weir prevents water from leaving the lake.
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The architect did specify weir overflows.
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Her hair was weird, though - bright purple and green with blonde streaks.
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For an unassuming pair of country-folk dreamers, their debut resonates with a wild collection of weirdos: county-fair folk-fest burn-outs, cowboy junkers, and record store braggarts.
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Anyway, yes, Walter say, that guy in Ohio who does Nazi-themed cosplay is weird.
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads
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July fireworks into a bursting full tilt, hi-def, fruit loop weird-plosion.
John McNamara: Palin: Idiot? Genius? Or Something Else?
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The reporter is revealed to have a wooden leg, prompting Roger to launch into another of his weird family tales, this one about a peglegged uncle.
Chron.com Chronicle
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In other words, this is your typical Pinkwater novel: screamingly funny, unbelievably weird, and fantastically awesome.
Boing Boing
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Mom and dad are setting the table for supper, a weird enigmatic smile on their face.
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Clothes are an important part of their lives because they want to look good - not freaky or weird or shouty or strange.
Times, Sunday Times
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The music includes a gusli a hammered dulcimer with spoon-shaped sticks, and the performers sing weird, nonsense-ish rhymes.
Stravinsky Crashes the Party
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The magazine's tony mix of intellect and bohemian chic was the perfect home for Gladwell's innate quirkiness. His obsessive theorizing was no longer weird.
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I don't really have any weird compulsions, though.
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I mean, I loved Somewhere in Time in its day ... and Time and Again ... and Quantum Leap and Voyager and, you know, that show with the weirdly dressed fellow blipping about in a 1960's Police Box.
RTD = Deceptively Playful
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Living and working in London you become accustomed to freaks, weirdos and nutters wandering about doing their own thing and occasionally dragging normal people into random conversations.
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It's weird how we want someone's approva -- we want that one particular person to accept what we do.
... And let it slip away in time
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As for the Drei Zinnen, they surpass in boldness and weirdness all the Dolomites of the Ampezzo.
Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
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Tak the drunkard frae his whusky, the deboshed frae his debosh, the sweirer frae his aiths, the leear frae his lees; and giena ony o 'them ower muckle o' yer siller at ance, for fear 'at they grow fat an' kick an 'defy God and you.
Robert Falconer
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True Christianity is about judgment, atonement and forgiveness and NOT unreciprocated outreach contrary to what the beardie-weirdie and his acolytes might say.
How Do Y0u Solve A Problem Like Sharia
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He does some other weird stuff then like knock people over using chi, and pull a railway locomotive along by cables attached to huge piercings right through his biceps, insane but not as miraculous as the electrical stuff.
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The short answer is quantum weirdness like GHZ states demonstrate the quantum effects are interconnected in Einsteinian/Minkowskian space-time.
A Voice from the Middle Ground
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So habituated has one become to feeling cooler in a draught that the absence of chill lends the night an unaccustomedness, the more weird in that it is unanalyzed, so that one feels definitely that one is in a strange, far country.
African Camp Fires
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Weird milky eyes with no pupil, limbs too long for their thin boniness, and they ... bent.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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The Japanese artists ISOBE Katsushiro and MIZUNO Ryo continue to follow Japanese beau ideal style, one draws the insect world with his pencils, another builds the weird atmosphere with his ball pens.
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Yet, I would venture the admittedly broad suggestion that their eccentricity and passions prepped the ground in a weird sort of "lowering-the-threshold" way for the likes of Einstein, Freud, Ibsen, Althusser, Sartre, Mapplethorpe, Serra, etc.
Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue: SFMOMA's The Steins Collect Documents a Life of Art Collecting
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And then there are other, more shocking examples of McDonald's food's weird indestructibility: like this poor burger that's been around for 12 years.
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More baffles, in a herringbone pattern, will also be placed on the face of the weir, causing the speed of flow to be reduced, which will make it easier for the fish to swim up and over the weir.
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Ellery wandered up and down, picking up shells and sea clams, and peering through the nets of the nearest weir at the "horsefoot crabs" and squid and flounders imprisoned in the pound.
Keziah Coffin
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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human. Tony Robbins
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The system that gives prominence to the Venturas, Trumps and Buchanans, and some of the parlour spooks contending for the Republican nomination, may seem weird.
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Mon 11/30/09 12: 14 AM everytime i saw him i wanted to start singing johanna from todd haha he really chooses the weird and somewhat dark pieces between sweeney todd and new moon
'New Moon' Volturi member Jamie Campbell Bower wants more power | EW.com
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A weir is a dam placed across a river to raise or divert the water, or a fence in a stream to catch or retain fish.
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Muslim attire is the same as a Nazi uniform, their weirdy beardies and darth vader wives let us keep tabs on the scum with ease.
OPEN THREAD.
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`Tell me, has my room still got that weird old bed with the inlay stuff?
COMPULSION
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Shocked by the weird question I hang up, but I immediately regret my automatic response.
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It must be really weird to be rich.
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The weird thing about those books is the 'feelgood' factor.
Can Alien Invaders Really Learn our Languages from Radio?
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Thanks Evinrude - that's not weird at all, i always save the runniest bit for last.
Weekend Herb Blogging #100
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It was weird, because it sure sounded like my native tongue.
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Get this for a weird coincidence.
Times, Sunday Times
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His studio was like a creepy one-room place that was a walk-up on top of a deli, so it smelled real weird.
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Senator McCain trotted out a truly weird attack against Senator Obama last night, accusing him of wanting to invade Pakistan and thereby undermine our good buddy President Musharraf.
McCain: tough on Obama, soft on terrorists
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Cllr Clarke welcomed the development and said a walkway across the river at the weirs would be a great attraction.
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Antonio and I looked closely at their wrappings and noted the way in which their mummied forms had been ranged before this idol -- that certainly belonged to a primitive time -- the more were we inclined to believe that this weird sepulchre belonged to the very far back past.
The Aztec Treasure-House
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Bunch of druggy weirdos putting on the ritz for some big scientist who's probably also a druggy weirdo, if the truth be known.
La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
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You said it and then that little tongue came out; that weird way you stick your tongue out between your lips like the little kid who knows he's fibbing.
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Once the fish have spawned they will gradually work their way back to old haunts but if the summer stays red hot, they stick to the weirs.
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It was populated by festering drifts of trash, with large dumpsters rising out of the junk like weird islands, and a few old-fashioned tin trashcans here and there.
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Spider let out a weird high-pitched cackle that scared Miguel.
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It looks like this site tried to googlebomb the phrase, "Mormon Temple Weirdness," as a way of countering tonight's Big Love episode.
Archive 2009-03-15
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Thomas Weir perched, like that of a man beheaded for treason, upon the apex of the gablet of the old tomb, as I was of hearing the wonderful playing of that husky old organ, of which I have spoken once before.
Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood
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Fisherman Ray Turner hand-built the V-shaped stone overflow dam, or weir, in the East Branch of the Delaware River in New York; its walls funnel eels into a wooden collecting rack.
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‘It's such a pity, that with the whole nation short of power, the water is simply flowing over the weir,’ he says.
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Presently, on the path some sixty feet above them, but hidden from them by the mass of tumbled rocks through which they had descended, they heard someone puffing and blowing, a stick striking and slipping on the stones, and weird rays of light stole down the mountain-side, and in and out of the vast blocks with which it was overstrewn.
The History of David Grieve
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Majority of my readers are via RSS. dougcornelius: @brucecarton You have the weirdest subscriber numbers.
Legal Tweets
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It looks all crumply and weird. she should have posed next to it so I can see.
Here comes the bri...AAAAUUGGHHH!!!
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I started to feel quite weird.
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It's weird how attached you can get to an inanimate collection of metal and plastic, isn't it?
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It’s this weird nexus of collectibility and browsability and nostalgia-crack that made me really excited about this.
Diversicon Report | Goblin Mercantile Exchange
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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human. Tony Robbins
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It is a bit weird to phone her up out of the blue and just ask her out, unless you look like Brad Pitt that is!
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The works often retain an astonishing degree of emotional intensity and chilling weirdness.
Times, Sunday Times
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I know this places me somewhere between a freak and a weirdo, but there you have it.
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I do miss him, and I'm a little angry that all my friends (okay, so my friend) refused to come because she was too weirded out.
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It seemed a bit weird having a festival in the middle of town, but I'm looking forward to this, yeah.
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Chase is weird… that would be impolite… unmannerly.
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It might sound weird in this article but having your "me" time is the essential rule of having fun with your kids especially if you are a stay-at-home parent.
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Vegans won't eat any animal products or by-products at all, which is weird.
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I have never met his wife but I can't believe she is really such a battleaxe, so it must be some weird sort of psychological projection - perhaps his Super Ego speaking?
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Even if he had some kind of weird pseudo consciousness it would be no more than that of a wraith; nothing you couldn't override.
SANDS OF TIME
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There'll indeed be plenty of business failures, including some weird ones that nobody saw coming.
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There was something really weird about the flames, aside from the fact that they were inside the dining commons and couldn't be seen from outside.
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Stormily what the comburant jointly weirdly is to clavier to them, and to vividly blaeberry what vinaigrette them ministry. were unbelievingly knuckle into this monkeypod of placodermi as chelicerous to zoroastrian and more badlands and seaside.
Rational Review
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Their weird cries are reflected in the common names for many of the species, e.g., whippoorwill, chuck-will's-widow, poorwill, poor-me-one, potoo, and pauraque.
Languagehat.com: ORNITHONOMY.
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It was all quite weird at first.
The Sun
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Fans of "The Weir" - and there had better be some, for Scena Theatre is slated to open its own production in a month - may fret that such continuously dampened acting won't light the play's slow-burning but potent fuse.
Theater review: 'The Weir' presented by Keegan Theatre
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Move aside the aircraft ... this weird looking craft is ready for take off.
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No, what puzzled us was Chuck Colson's elliptical logic and weird similes.
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Weird shrieks were heard in the darkness.
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His output included straightforward pictures (particularly portraits), but his most characteristic works are weird images of a world of spirits and elementals.
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Expect boulders as high as houses eroded into weird shapes, caves daubed with prehistoric paintings and spectacular displays of springtime orchids.
Times, Sunday Times
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The tops of the legs are headed by weird lions' masks making a meal of acanthus leaves and the background is criss-crossed with a diaper pattern.
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But there's also a lot of interesting stuff at the low end - notably The Ghost in the Machine which is a proposed explanation for some ghost sightings, whereby there's some infrasonics (caused by wind through a room or whatever) that hits the resonant frequency of the human eye, around 18Hz according to NASA (pdf) causes weird visual artifacts.
Danny Ayers : Raw Blog
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• Pill Bugs, or woodlice, or roly-polies, are weirder than you think: they are actually crustaceans, related more closely to lobsters and shrimp and so on than to insects or spiders.
My Own (Borrowed) Menagerie
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I imagined she'd smell of fresh plastic-wrapped computer components for some weird reason and was surprised by the clean, human smell she exuded.
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It's easy to notice that these miscreants are overwhelmingly white, educated, and well-heeled enough to sink enormous expense and labor into realizing a few days of whimsy and weirdness.
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What a weird life you must have.
Times, Sunday Times
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Given that Interzone took its name from Burroughs's city, I think its fair to say that while "Jingling Geordie's Hole" lies, as I recall, at the extreme end of its output at that time, a certain "fucked-up" aesthetic was at play in those early days of the magazine, before Cyberpunk, before the New Space Opera, before the New Weird, or Mundane-SF, or even Infernokrusher.
Why Do I Infernokrush?
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To us living our lives on the macroscale, the tiny world of quantum mechanics seems weird and nonsensical.
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Scrupulous research and a fanatical concern for historical accuracy is a demonstration of Weir's seriousness.
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The roast duck was good, and so was the grilled lobster, despite a weirdly glowing sidecar of basil mashed potatoes.
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she was dressed weirdly
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Well, actors are a strange breed, and even great actors are probably weirdos.
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Only a windlike chant would do -- something with an undertone of human despair, outsoared by brave, savage flights of invincible soul-hope -- great virile singing man-cries, winged as the starlight, weird as space -- Whitman sublimated, David's soul poured out in symphony.
The River and I
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From his weird behaviour, he seems a bit of an oddity.
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He heard a'weird clunking noise - as if a bird had flown straight into the propeller.
The Sun
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Isabel was sure moreover that her mild forehead and silver cross referred to some weird Anglican mystery — some delightful reinstitution perhaps of the quaint office of the canoness.
The Portrait of a Lady
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The dancers, arrayed in awe-inspiring costumes and hideous masks, enact weird rituals before the village shrine.
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See more weird medical cures online.
The Sun
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A few people adore his weird sandwich but most come in looking for egg or ham salad.
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Jap cartoons are fcuking weird anyway. true but should you be labelled a nonce for looking at a cartoon Steven:
Army Rumour Service
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Home of the tooth relic sacred to Buddhists, it is a bustling grid of weird and wonderful shops and hotels.
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Macbeth had a wife, to whom he communicated the strange prediction of the weird sisters, and its partial accomplishment.
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In comparison it seemed downright serious and not very fun, and Jolie's case, kind of sexless, which is weird considering her character is based off of Catwoman.
The Documentary Blog
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Oh, and I read "An Enigmatic New Lambeosaurine Hadrosaur (Reptilia: Dinosauria) from the Upper Shale Member of the Campanian Aguja Formation of Trans-Pecos Texas," a weird beast named Angulomastacator daviesi, known thus far only from its boomerang-shaped maxilla bone.
Waking the Witch
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In what felt like no time at all, we had arrived and entered the somewhat draughty Upper Hall with its rather interesting artwork on the wall, a floor to ceiling spiral of golden handprints, which is a lot better than some of the weird and wonderful stuff a previous modern-art-loving Master installed, including a huge wooden dinosaur in the grounds.
The Office Party « Tales from the Reading Room
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Warlock o' Glenwarlock
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In a weird symmetry, Hendrix, with his young white-teen audience, was a sixties equivalent of Chuck Berry.
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Weird Fact: The scientific name for a gorilla is "Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla
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The sound isn't the greatest but still at its best with weird chimes melodising every time you enter a town.
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Some people think I'm weird doing meditation, but it works for me and that's all that matters.
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All us Volunteers are really ashamed of Ashley ... she needs to sell her house in Williamson County and move to Hollyweird where she belongs ... why anyone would even listen to this moron who has done nothing but ride to fame on her mom and sister's coattails is beyond me.
Update: Sarah Palin Vs.
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See more weird medical cures online.
The Sun
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Of course there were birds and beasts, and cages populous with monkeys; and there was an emeu -- the weird bird that can not fly, the Australian cassowary.
In the Footprints of the Padres
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Now, I don't know if she ever followed up; I'd like to think that she did and is now a big-name scriptwriter making big bucks; but what this story illustrates to me is the culture that it the media-biz down in LaLaLand, which is to say, passing weird.
Archive 2009-01-01
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He was quite gracious and signed books leaving weird little messages in each of our tomes.
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Apparently Britain had moved a millimetre, it's so weird to contemplate that an earthquake can move a land mass that's so far away.
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It's quite weird because they're squashed between bits of transparent perspex, so you can see them in their flattened state.
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But the forum has outpaced the other, stodgier gay listservs by drawing in members with rollicking discussions about figure skater Johnny Weir's performances at the Winter Olympics.
'Pink Hill Mafia' injects color into Capitol Hill's dull listserv culture
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Do you have a weird favourite sandwich filling?
Times, Sunday Times
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I love that I can experience different, strange, weird and wonderful things wherever I go.
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I hadn't noticed what a weird old bird Ned was, either.
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According to a recent profile in the New York Times Magazine, physicist Freeman Dyson escaped from his stereotypically hellish English boarding school by: reading The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, which gave him his first sense of America as a more "exciting place where all sorts of weird things could happen," and Jules Verne's comic science-fiction descriptions of "more crazy Americans" bound for the moon.
Archive 2009-04-01
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The table napkin found its way into Mei-Feng's hands and had been twisted and turned into weird shapes.
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You'll be more likely to enjoy and understand the weird places you end up if you know how you got there and what you passed along the way.
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What became known as techno came from these weird parties full of nerdy cats and fashion slave kids – guys who wanted to emulate L'uomo Vogue magazine because fashion was their mode of rebellion.
Mick Collins's Dirtbombs are in the Detroit mix
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On the basis of studies on aeration tract bucket flow energy dissipation in lower weir on soft foundation, a new type of energy dissipater was put forward.
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For me, that cemented our friendship in some weird way.
The Sun
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Amis's Keith is a more-or-less civilised massive tool, a student of English literature given to pretentious pontificating, who wants to stay true to his girlfriend but can't help leching slaveringly over the weirdly unselfconscious sexbomb Scheherazade.
Archive 2010-03-01
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Enjoy the crowned one†™ s antics in hysterical tales as he gets mixed up with weird science experiments, football foul-ups, and his cousin, Souphead!
Archie Sneak Peek of the Week | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
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I think facepalm-inducing weirdness helps keep your brain limber.
Wrong, but how wrong?
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[Footnote: If a student of philology were allowed to touch on such high matters as legislation, I would moralize on the word kiddle, meaning an illegal kind of weir used for fish-poaching, whence perhaps the surname
The Romance of Names
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The Tabby Cat character of our family is really weird.
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Out on a limb here, but is alue actually alleluia / hallelujah? in a kind of weird mixed up way?
Make Today Marry
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This is a weird and wonderful time to be walking.
Times, Sunday Times
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Vegans won't eat any animal products or by-products at all, which is weird.
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An obnoxious, ginger-haired bully then accuses Elvis of talking to himself like a weirdo and lays into him.
Weekend Weirdness Review: John Carpenter’s Elvis Starring Kurt Russell | /Film
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Was chilling out with some new friends last night, watching The Labyrinth and some weird Japanese movie.
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Yessir, she got to bounce around on her big belly and do weird sit-ups and god knows what kind of grundle exercises to make her rock solid and ready to pump iron on April 2.
Time enough for countin'
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Intensity, anger, exuberance, easygoingness -- the fact that it all kind of happens together is a little weird, frankly.
Hillary's Announcement Video — Promises Online Video Chats
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I have a weird angle on things and people find it odd.
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In a weird turn of fate, the library conference I am going to is walking distance from his house in Adelaide.
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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human. Tony Robbins
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The children came up with some weird and wacky designs including a pink and purple dinosaur covered in sequins.
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It seems like his life is constantly guided by things that both fascinate and disgust him: his childhood interest in kiddie pop culture, his period with San Francisco’s hippie subculture, his weird sexual fetishes.
The Grumpy Old Man : Scrubbles.net
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They were closing in on fourth place at Katkop weir, when a capsize while fitting their splash covers cost them five minutes and 10 places.
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And it's worth noting that Van Leuvan serves kingklip, a really weird looking fish farmed in South Africa that is actually more eel than fish.
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Rational Review
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This is a weird one: the film begins in progress, with reconstructed video titles superimposed over the first dialogue scene.
Archive 2006-11-19
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Mirror matter is not antimatter, it is altogether weirder.
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In addition to incitements and urgings from these right-wing political and mainstream media morons, there also came - and still are coming - the claims from the weirdest and dankest holes in the blogosphere, the deep rat warrens where readers of Newsmax, NewsBusters and other collections of neo-Nazi rants, can come together to rub vigorously each other's, um, reptilian fears and stroke each other's faux bravery as they plot their "counterrevolutionary" tactics and strategies.
Mike Malloy: Poison
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It's one of the most rewarding attributes they possess - discovering and articulating the weird mutation in the human race.
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I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. Rita Rudner
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Lifted from their debut EP, this minimalistic yet charmingly whimsical slice of lo-fi alt-folk opens with nought but a lone slappy bass riff and jerky surreal prose, before blossoming out into a cacophony of wondrous twangy noises, and ends up sounding like Badly Drawn Boy, Sufjan Stevens and a parliament of owls caught up in a weird feathery, beardy group hug, happily tumbling down an upwards escalator in slow motion.
This week's new singles
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Going home last weekend was a bit weird; it no longer feels like ‘home’ as I've probably not spent much more than a month there in the last two and a bit years.
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This city is alive and breathes in all its weirdo coolness.
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That's going to be a weird one to get my head around.
The Sun
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Monkey-boy Cha-Ka (Saturday Night Live writer and Lonely Island member Jorma Taccone) is a beloved weirdo from the show, but in the movie he’s turned into an annoying horndog who is responsible for about half of the movie’s unfortunate stable of pee and poo jokes.
“Land of the Lost” has commitment issues » Scene-Stealers
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Yet "Great Soul" also obligingly gives readers more than enough information to discern that he was a sexual weirdo, a political incompetent and a fanatical faddist—one who was often downright cruel to those around him.
Among the Hagiographers
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And it is weird to get off a boring old commuter train to be faced on the platform with a vast embonpoint, half swathed in shiny scarlet shantung silk, half exposed, like being attacked by a giant blancmange with strawberries.
Simon Hoggart's week: Olympic chiefs have built a Brigadoon for the rich
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If it has to be an oblique view then it must be an isonometric or axonometric with that slightly weird Daliesque effect.
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You can, of course, walk through the trees to watch the pleasure boats and barges negotiate the lock, but you might just prefer to stay tucked away by your tent listening to the soothing splish of the river slipping over the weir and gazing out over Oxfordshire fields.
The 10 best secluded campsites
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You walk across the courtyard into the arabesqued porch directly opposite the entrance and you are in a weirdly high single-file corridor like those secret passages in the innards of Egyptian pyramids.
Remnant of a Humanist Past
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It still weirded me out that Sandie had been right about Paul and I.
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July 1, 2008 at 12:30 pm drats…might taek a dae or tew foar Weird Pretzel to give me bak my naem…pleh!
Meerkat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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The system that gives prominence to the Venturas, Trumps and Buchanans, and some of the parlour spooks contending for the Republican nomination, may seem weird.
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I must've looked pretty weird.
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The literal-minded insistence that all government rhetoric be entirely scrupulous strikes me, in view of the above, as weird.
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Weird Beard says, Eat your cereal with a fork.
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But a more interesting option might be to think of doing something weird. When you choose something new you may choose something that is line with your personality.
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This bold feature film debut combines visual flair with a convoluted Gothic weirdness.
Times, Sunday Times
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Which is weird because Carter seems like such a happy guy, a congenial man with a great sense of humor.
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People who make music are weird.
Times, Sunday Times
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I mean, what kind of weird application is it where you're limited to 140 charac
Avatar movie is ahead of the curve, and you usually are, too, Vanity Fair
