"Let them go drain the ponds, " Clawson told CNN.

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But once this scandal broke, all the Republican Party plans seemed to go down the drain.

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This genetic analysis saved millions of gallons of groundwater that otherwise would have had to go down the drain.

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"Young theorists especially would love to see supersymmetry go down the drain, because it means that the real thing is something they could invent - not something that was invented by the older generation, " he said.

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Even washing your car and having it drain in the driveway and go into the street.

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And just to go one further with your question, what would drain me much more, in my case, is jumping in and out of that world that we've gone to such an inordinate length to create for ourselves.

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Drain the slices on kitchen roll as you go along.

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So when people get something that they think is a pimple that doesn't go away, its generally not a good idea to poke and to try drain it yourself, but to certainly follow up with a doctor, because sometimes, what we found with MRSA as opposed to other regular bacteria, is that they may require some systemic antibiotics instead of just, you know, a simple drainage procedure.

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