I'm gonna do you a little boogie on this here piano, doing mighty fine, I'm gonna make you shake it, I'll make you do it and make you do it until you break it, it's called the Lewis boogie, in the Lewis way, Lord, I do my little boogie woogie every day.

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It began as a low rumble, I thought it was a train or large machine on the road at first, but when the whole house began to shake I realised it could only be an earthquake or perhaps a large plane crash.

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Am I gonna refuse to shake it?

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When the furor inevitably died down I made it to the American version, and I even went back again to give it a fair shake, and the results both times were reminiscent of the Grom in Florence: unsatisfying.

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In Nevada, we have no idea what the events and places will be, so the Democratic Party is trying to help candidates know when some small town is having, you know, some kind of steer roping or whatever, and the candidates are trying to figure out what's the place where the locals hang out and I can shake hands and grip and grin, is it Bagel Mania?

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At the conclusion of the interview, I reached over to shake the hand of the interviewer and he reluctantly shook it.

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It had one heck of a shake just last week, which I suspect weeded out many of the shorter term holders.

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But at this point, I think, Renee, it would probably take an event of a magnitude like the financial meltdown to really shake up this race.

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