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  • 81Whimsicalness — Whim si*cal*ness, n. The quality or state of being whimsical; freakishness; whimsical disposition. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 82screwball — I. noun Date: 1926 1. a baseball pitch that spins and breaks in the opposite direction to a curve 2. a whimsical, eccentric, or crazy person ; zany II. adjective Date: circa 1936 crazily eccentric or whimsical ; zany …

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  • 83Clerihew — A clerihew is a whimsical, four line biographical poem invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley. One of his best known is this (1905): Sir Christopher Wren Said, I am going to dine with some men. If anyone calls Say I am designing St. Paul s. [1]… …

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  • 84Gotham City — For other uses, see Gotham (disambiguation). Gotham City The Gotham skyline with the Bat signal. From Batman: City of Crime. Art by Ramon Bachs and Nathan Massengill. P …

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  • 85American Beauty (film) — American Beauty Theatrical release poster Directed by Sam Mendes …

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  • 86The Culture — is a fictional interstellar anarchist, socialist, and utopian[1][2] society created by the Scottish writer Iain M. Banks which features in a number of science fiction novels and works of short fiction by him, collectively called the Culture… …

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  • 87Pansy — For other uses of the name, see Pansy (disambiguation). Pansy Scientific classification Kingdom …

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  • 88C. C. Beck — in 1982 Born Charles Clarence Beck June 8, 1910(1910 06 08) Zumbrota, Minnesota …

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  • 89Clara Bow — in Rough House Rosie (1927) Born Clara Gordon Bow July 29, 1905(1905 07 29) Brooklyn, New York, U.S. Died …

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  • 90Runcible spoon — NOTOC A runcible spoon is a utensil that appears in the nonsense poetry also uses the adjective runcible to describe objects other than spoons. It is fundamentally a nonsense word.Cecil Adams, The Straight Dope ,… …

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