Not exactly a bold measure, but this is the ding dong of the new budget.

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But a Hostess pie or Ding Dong was a childhood treat that I still enjoy every now and then.

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Before jumping on the Ding Dong bandwagon, Blatner warned of health concerns.

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Even the puns and plays off old fairy tales (the city of Ding Dong Dell, for instance, or the villainous mouse king Hickory Dock) feel fresh.

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It is home, after all, to Ding Dong Daddy, hero of a 1930s music-hall number still popular as the theme-song of an annual Dumas summer festival (though Dumas, Texas also claims him).

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In the Philippines where I am from and in Hong Kong where I live most of the year, names like Ding Dong, Princess, Wing and Puzzle are as common as Jack and Jill.

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For Ding Dong lovers, this could prove troubling.

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Aside from the controversy, Ding Dong!

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Last autumn's ding-dong over whether Turkish troops should go to Iraq has not helped.

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Or both players are involved in a ding-dong battle for supremacy -- the lead changing hands numerous times, leaving the crowd on the edge of their seats.

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Mr Johnson will face huge scrutiny in the run-up to next May's mayoral election - and journalists are salivating over a ding-dong contest between "Boris and Ken".

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