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underpants

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8. Mmmmm

Reply to gratuitous (Reply #5)

Tue Apr 18, 2017, 03:57 PM

Apr 2017

cause he looks funny waving it around with his tiny hands?

When I read the NYT article on this I knew there had to be some real explanation - the brass doesn't screw up that bad - it was a head FAKE but it looks really dumb.

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