He built the business into a colossus and himself into a multimillionaire with a bright red Ferrari, though for much of that time he was the unknown man eating egg and chips in the lorry park, with oily hands from all that cleaning.

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In the 2001 general election campaign he scuffled with a man who threw an egg at him.

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The owner of Hunan Palace, a Chinese restaurant in Junction City, testified that a man calling himself Kling had ordered moo goo gain pan and egg rolls for delivery to the Dreamland motel.

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Modern mammals divide into three overarching groups: the placentals (most species, including man), the marsupials (kangaroos and their like) and the monotremes (the egg-laying platypus and echidnas).

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"I could have ended up with egg on my face, " said Calderwood, 26, after being named in coach Smith's 24-man squad.

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Washed into a sewer, Remy lands in Paris, where he makes himself known to a young man, Alfredo Linguini (Lou Romano), who has inherited a famous restaurant but cannot crack an egg.

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