Findings:

• (because this was always subconsciously the inspiration, even if I did not know it at the time, and I only realised it just now)
• bother
• hot and bothered
• Oh, bother!
• Sorry to bother you
• Why bother?
• Shoo Fly Don't Bother Me
• Why bother taking a picture?
• What is conflict, and why bother to resolve it?
• "Oh, bother," said the Borg. "We've assimilated Pooh."
• Really quick (I really can't be bothered to cook now) dinners
• just because they never bothered to really do
• I Am Very Bothered
• why do I bother?
• Nobody's heart bothers with such mundane things as distance
• no worries, no bothers, no captains, no fathers
• Bothered
• Death arrived shortly thereafter, but we were both far too busy to bother with one another just yet
• A Spot of Bother
• Oh, bother! This is dubstep, isn't it?
• Yet the sea was hardly bothered, and the stars remained untouched
• I know what you did last summer
• I did not have sexual relations with that woman
• I still know what you did last summer
• Did God have choice in creating the universe?
• did
• E2 FAQ: How Did This Happen (document)
• Why did the chicken cross the road?
• Did my pussy just run into you?
• Why did the chicken cross the playground?
• How much pain did you cause?
• My Way
• I did not find love
• Jesus did not say this; it represents the perspective of a later or different tradition
• Where the hell did that font come from?
• Video didn't kill the radio star, I did
• Men did not always like large breasts
• No matter what I did to fix it, the damn thing never got everything right
• I never did well with Sunday nights
• What face did you have before your mother and father were born?
• The Butler Did it, Again
• What did you do for your mother today?
• old chestnut: where did the other square go?
• answer: where did the other square go?
• A Slumber did my Spirit Seal
• That torpedo did not self-destruct. You heard it hit the hull. And I... was never here.
• Where did you get that hat?
• My first comet
• This would be easier if we did it backwards
• Saint Paul did not screw up Christianity
• Did you know that the word 'gullible' isn't in the dictionary?
• Did Anne Frank find Jesus?
• Oh boner, you didn't whiz on Old Glory, did you?
• Did Chuang Tzu dream
• So how did you two meet?
• A little Clint Black never killed anybody, but it did evacuate the building.
• what we did last night
• When did you realise you really weren't going to realize some of your dreams?
• Then what did Jesus say, grandpa?
• Let's not, and say we did
• How did I miss the recruiter?
• Using headphones as a microphone
• if people treat you badly, did you bring it on yourself?
• What did Jesus look like?
• I almost did it
• Seriously, though, who the hell did I think I was going to become?
• What did people use as incidental music before Moby was invented?
• Did Nixon beat his wife?
• It did not but, I think.. it will spill hope
• More hips!
• How did we come to this?
• Why, again, did I suffer through four years of high school?
• The dumbest thing I ever did while under the influence of alcohol
• Did Aum Shinrikyo set off a nuclear bomb in Western Australia in 1993?
• Did Nostradamus predict the French Revolution?
• Did Nostradamus predict JFK's assassination?
• If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him
• What did you mean when you said...
• I know what you did in Texas
• Shakespeare Did It Syndrome
• Why oh why did the black crayon always die first?
• I did my best and failed abysmally
• Grunge did not fail and is not dead
• What the hell did Kennedy say about Jefferson?
• The train never did come that day
• That which I should have done I did not do
• What did you love when you were a kid?
• What did men do to deserve "I Will Survive"?
• Did you once stand before me without shame?
• I saw him lying there leaving me, and I did not know
• Did T. Rex waltz or samba?
• Why did kamikaze pilots wear helmets?
• Why did we name them Sperm Whales?
• Oh, did you learn to play chess after YOU dropped a barbell on your head, too?
• What I Did On My Vacation
• Where did you learn ebonics?
• England arrived late
• Conspiracy Theory: Did we land on the Moon?
• Why did the chicken cross the Mobius strip?
• What They Did to Princess Paragon
• Did Dionysus do the right thing?
• Have you come here to play Jesus, as I did?
• The annoying kid told me to kick him so I did
• How did I end up here?
• How did the matrix know what blue looked like?
• I did not say it would make sense
• I did not tell him, instead I kept it private like a secret hug
• Aristotle's Lost Library, Medieval Andalusia & Chinese Paper, or How Europe Learned to Learn Again and Why the Renaissance Happened When & Where It Did
• what I did on my holidays
• Climb up on the Moon? Of course we did.
• Why did so many animals return to the sea
• After searching for my mother's name for twenty years, I realized I also did not know my father's
• How did I get here, Sarah?
• Why did the indie rawk kid cross the road?
• What the hell did I do with my keys this time?
• Puking Onstage Before a Live Audience, or: The Pooka Did It
• When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?
• the garden did not start out as metaphor, it started out as paradise
• Did You Fuck Her?
• what the kids did for love:
• Did I step on your dick?
• Did Israel attack the Pentagon and World Trade Center?
• You are precious to me. Did you know that?
• Keeping beer cold in the Old West
• Did Ronald Reagan end the Cold War?
• When did everyone get so attractive?
• It did not get nicer, but it sure got a hell of a lot more honest
• Britain Entering World War I
• Did You Save One Of Me?
• Which way did the bicycle go?
• The boy who did not understand the language of the birds
• Where did Archie find the time?
• Why I did what I did
• They did not forgive us, she thought. We will surely die.
• He did very little harm
• Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?
• Was that real, or did I dream it?
• Did you think of me before you knew me?
• edev: I Shot Guest User (but I did not shoot n-a-t-e)
• Mother, did it need to be so high?
• Did I stutter?
• I did not approach people; people did not approach me
• Vancouver Stanley Cup Riots
• When I was little my mother told me not to sit close to the T.V., so when I was six I did.
• The boys did not know it. They were just being beautiful, and I got to watch.
• Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
• Where did you go? Out. What did you do? Nothing.
• Jesus did not speak English
• Did you mean for it to look like this?
• Did you touch any of his blood?
• Did not arrive (no reason)
• What did you learn from your time in the solitary cell of your mind?
• Daddy, what did you do in the Great War?
• Katie Did
• Why did the girl fall off the swing?
• A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away
• Did the Japanese go and sit down and have dinner with Pearl Harbor before they bombed 'em?
• Why Did Grandpa Die?
• My grandma died yesterday. Did she die?
• When did you choose to be left-handed?
• Damn, damn, damn: what did you have to go and do that for
• risk assessment in the brain and the dumbest thing you ever did before age 25
• Since when did being spiritual matter? Since when did thread count matter?
• What did my spleen ever do for me?
• Did Elvis see Star Wars?
• As a matter of fact I did invent the Internet
• Did the backstory for Atomsk come from Mr Roboto?
• Where Did The Days Go?
• Everything Hitler did was legal
• Did you know you broke my heart today?
• I did not need it. I was strong. I was steady. I knew what I was doing.
• I woke up in a bed I did not know
• He comforted me when he thought I needed it, but never when I really did
• How did physics change as a result of the making and use of the atomic bomb?
• I slept so well, even my dreams were simple.
• You did a lot of things right on this girl.
• It wasn't so much what you said, or what I did, but more what you said I did, and what I didn't say at all.
• A tramp did it
• we were polite, we did not fall apart
• We did not make this up
• Where did I put those darn tomatoes?
• Did we not build the rudder? Let us not blame the sea.
• You didn't feel anything, did you
• In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.

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