The uproar in Britain reached its crescendo Thursday evening when London Mayor Boris Johnson whipped up a crowd of 60, 000 revelers at a pre-Olympics celebration with a taunt for the Republican presidential candidate.

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Bonnie Parker, in a proto-modelling photograph, seems to taunt us from the fender of Clyde Barrow's car.

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He said the assault was "a brief but co-ordinated attack, a racist taunt, a charge and a swallowing up of Stephen Lawrence".

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As a taunt, the starving defenders sent out a 50-pound meat pie.

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On Wednesday, Commons business begins with Cabinet Office questions - an opportunity, perhaps, for Labour MPs to taunt the Conservative backroom policy mastermind Oliver Letwin over his comments about the undesirability of people from Sheffield taking holidays abroad.

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He ran the length of the field to taunt fans of his former club after scoring in City's 4-2 victory at Eastlands.

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