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2. Sez me and that rat fink over there, bub.

Reply to MADem (Reply #1)

Mon Dec 8, 2014, 03:15 AM

Dec 2014

Talkin’ kinda swell.

Hey look, Mister. We serve hard drinks in here, for men who want to get drunk fast, and we don’t need any characters around here talkin’ kinda swell to give the joint “atmosphere.”

Talkin' kinda swell, huh?

Yeah, I got yer swell.

I gotcher swell right HERE!

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