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This proved unappealing to all but a tiny handful of oafs.
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Some judges, when elevated to the Supreme Court, have taken it as licence to act as philosopher-kings, laying down the kind of enlightened laws that the oafs in Congress ought to have passed but did not.
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But Farrell's flamboyant oafs remain endearing for their guileless childishness, "mind-bottling" way with words, and the star's willingness to let it all hang out ("I thought you'd like to see what a real skater's body looks like, " he tells Jimmy over his paunch).
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