broodmare

[Mark Mandel]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

> Using the minus function, I entered
>
> broodmare mother children -foal -mare -horse
>
> and got the following two (among many others)

[...]
>

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I used the minus function as well, but not as effectively as you, or maybe I
just wasn't persistent enough. But I found the following with Yahoo search.
(Plowing through the first 600 hits is enough for me, even at my rate of
skimming.


   - http://www.ellorascave.com/productpage.asp?ISBN=1-4199-0666-6
   Despite the exquisite pleasures to be found in the king's arms,
   Douglass [a woman] wants more from Marcus than to be his broodmare.
   - http://www.usmagazine.com/tomkat_dirty_dancing?page=7
   Look at the faces of the people around them,priceless! It's a known
   fact in Hollywood that Tom Cruise is gay and she is his latest
   broodmare/beard.
   [different sense -- related?]
   - http://www.errantstory.com/
   And female elves spend such a tiny portion of their lives pregnant or
   caring for a child, assuming they become pregnant at all, that they just
   don't spend enough time doing it to get shoehorned into a primary child
   rearing/broodmare role.
   - http://www.suck.com/daily/98/09/04/
   Must we wait until the callow William woos, weds, beds, then coldly
   ignores his own adulterous, anorexic broodmare?
   - http://www.tmz.com/2007/06/19/prom-night-for-tomkat/4#c5522138
   46. LOL, # 53, you are SO RIGHT! Space zombies are being kept busy
   doing damage control for their leader and his dumb-a$$ broodmare.
   [Tom Cruise again!]
   - http://www.twistyfaster.com/pages/fotomat/Tasty_Morsels/food3.htm
   And why are hamburger buns universally constructed out of styrofoam? I
   resent the implication that the hamburger enthusiast is a tasteless redneck
   broodmare breadophobe.
   - www.consumating.com/profiles/Jeepster:_THE_BURNINATOR/topics
   Jeepster: The Legend Continues is a 23-year old girl in Boston, MA.
   she is single. ... Become a tame, Baptist, midwest, housewife broodmare? ...
   [the page doesn't have this snippet any more]
   -
   http://www.tmz.com/2007/01/17/no-bun-in-the-oven-for-britney/2#c3160311
   16. #14: Joujou, nothing like becoming the broodmare for your nanny,
   eh? ;-)
   [tmz.com again]
   -
   http://p070.ezboard.com/fchildfreefrm21.showMessage?topicID=455.topic
   If you are so determined to have your son sire an heir to your name
   convince him to divorce me and find a broodmare to pump them out for him.


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Mark Mandel

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