1. No sensible software expert would touch this with a barge pole . 2. But we don't touch this kind of story with a barge pole ." 3. "We wouldn't touch those with a barge pole , " he said. 4. "US courts usually don't want to touch these cases with a barge pole , " said Wilson. 5. Now, it seems that no one on Wall Street will touch Internet stocks with a barge pole . 6. "There are certain actors who wouldn't touch it with a barge pole , " says Turner, a former actor himself. 7. "No mainstream Muslim organization will touch Al-Muhajiroun with a barge pole , " said Inayat Bungalawala of the Muslim Council of Britain. 8. Towards dawn he had a dream that an eight-year-old girl pushing his boat with a large barge pole and setting it afloat. 9. Larry Feign, one of Hong Kong's best known and most popular cartoonists, says newspapers here won't touch his work with a barge pole . 10. "We are not being coy about this, but I wouldn't have touched this with a barge pole if it was trashy or exploitative ."