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marmaduke!
proper noun
Once popular in parts of Yorkshire, Lancashire and County Durham.
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If Marmaduke were running, I would vote for Marmaduke.
During his brief tenure in the job, George Entwistle had already begun to dismember the bloated structure installed by John Birt, the improbable beneficiary of the Mendips camorra of William Rees-Mogg and Marmaduke Hussey (those are the truly guilty men).
If, like Marmaduke Scarlet, you end up with a fair few sheets of ripped filo that won't work for a pastry or pie, then her Greek patsavoura will solve the problem.
As a voice actor, he performed the roles of a general in the animated comedy Monsters vs. Aliens (2009), a dog in the comic-strip adaptation Marmaduke (2010), and the narrator of the thriller Twelve (2010).
He now lives on a houseboat on the Thames with his wife, Shara, and their sons, Jesse, Marmaduke, and Huckleberry.
"He learned how to handle a knife," Grylls, who is also the father of a child named Marmaduke, eight, and Jesse, 10. "When I say to budding adventurers, 'Listen – a blunt penknife is a dangerous knife.
Eventually the programme, with amendments, was shown the following October; but the fallout from the dispute persisted, and in 1987 Milne – who had been on holiday for much of the critical time – was dismissed by the newly appointed chair of governors, Marmaduke Hussey, selected by Thatcher on the understanding that he would take a tough line with management.
Larry, for instance, or Louise; not Marmaduke or Petronella.
This bench's donor, called something like Brig-Gen Marmaduke Chumley-Tomkins, had chosen for epitaph the fact that he"... loved walking in this Common" – but the letter "l" of "walking" had been immaculately replaced by "n".
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Milne was force to resign in 1987 at the behest of BBC chairman Marmaduke Hussey, who had been appointed by Margaret Thatcher to bring the broadcaster to heel.
But isn't the crucial thing (as both David Dimbleby and former chairman Marmaduke Hussey have recently argued) to actually reduce the layers of bureaucracy which are the legacy of John Birt's reforms, rather than provide better maps and travel-reps for visitors to its fabled Kafka-esque corridors?
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