It's not a great calling card, not an ideal howdy-do to the world beyond the town's borders.

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When I register on some websites and then log in again, I'll see a message saying "Howdy Colm, welcome back!"

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After the throat clearing and howdy-alls, Gates delivered 10 short punchy paragraphs outlining Microsoft's reaction to Jackson's Findings of Fact.

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Vitamins have been getting great p.r. ever since host Buffalo Bob Smith crowed on the U.S. TV show Howdy Doody, "Wonder Bread builds strong bodies eight ways, " in the 1950s.

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