Genesis describes Noah's boat as made of "gopher wood, " but experts disagree over what this is.

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So what exactly did the senators say that caused Hollywood to head for the gopher holes?

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Projects fail when the principal investigator behaves as a boss, and the student merely a gopher.

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From that third country, Whitman said, the containers were loaded onto the SS Gopher State, a U.S.-owned crane ship normally used to haul equipment in and out of war zones.

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Corruption in government is rare in the Gopher State.

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While some online discussions question whether the use of a Jamaican accent by a white guy from the "Gopher State" is offensive, commenters on the Volkswagen YouTube page say Jamaicans come in all colors.

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Their driver was Rahin Ahmed, Naseer's hapless gopher.

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Then Dole went to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, leaving himself open to unlimited Lawrence Welk jokes and leaving me with little excuse for failing to deal with the stuffed-gopher museum in Torrington, Alberta.

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Among the highest scoring: the University of Georgia Bulldogs' Hairy Dawg, Michigan State University's Sparty (as in Spartan) and the University of Minnesota's Goldy the Gopher, who is hugely popular with local fans despite looking like a squirrel.

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Gardening is said to be a calming pursuit, yet here you are scribbling down the 800-number from an infomercial touting the guy who injects compressed gas into gopher holes and ignites it, causing a thousand divots to shoot violently into the sky, along with the remains of unpleasantly surprised gophers.

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