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Brainstormy

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Reply to skepticscott (Reply #7)

Fri Feb 6, 2015, 06:26 PM

Feb 2015

I don't know anybody who came up in that atmosphere that doesn't laugh about paddling and routinely having their knuckles rapped. Sort of like the military, college fraternity hazing. whatever. Maybe you just gotta' laugh.

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