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Po
noun
A peacock.
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PO: Well... you become a part of a democratic movement to change the country.
PO: There is a pack you get when you join the LibDems.
PO: A handbook and various leaflets and information.
In east Belfast, a passing po lice patrol rescued two elderly Protestant sisters when a petrol bomb set their home alight.
PO: (silence) Me: What's in the welcome pack when you join Plaid Cymru?
A muscle guarding the Barksdale stash, soon to be taken out by Omar, describes how some "white motherfucker and his wife" came looking for the "po' house", which he took to mean one lived in by poor people until it turned out they were more interested in Edgar Allen Poe.
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As RTE ringmaster Bill O'Herlihy tut-tutted in a fatherly and faux po-faced fashion, pundit Eamon Dunphy got to work with his new toy, an electronic pen with which he could enhance and illustrate his analysis by drawing white lines, circles, arrows and squiggles on a monitor after pausing the VT with an often aggressive roar of "Stop it there!" at some unseen flunkie in the production suite.
Clearly, somewhere in the years before he released those gritty tales of urban decay as heard on 6 Feet Beneath the Moon, he learned the power of the po-faced.
Because the nature of this band is to muddle through chaotically, it means we don't have to be po-faced about it.
You only need witness their current surroundings for proof of that: a bunch of pale indie kids originally hailing from Oxford's po-faced math-rock scene who somehow find themselves drinking beer in shades on a rooftop bar in LA.
In a year when even Vice, the erstwhile enfant terrible of the media industry, adopted a decidedly po-faced approach to video journalism, it was refreshing to see Oliver use the phrases "prison privatisation" and "six-foot party sub" in the same sentence.
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