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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
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 Posted - 01/16/2005 : 11:24:59
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do you have a lot of garage sales, or yard sales, where you come from?
i think yard sales are great. if i see one i always stop and sometimes find some really cool things, really cheap.
i think it's so funny though when someone has a "yard sale" and they've got a small blanket with like 5 things on it. and it's like, a coffee cup, some plates, a shitty thrift store painting and a candle. do you know what i'm talking about? you know these types?
like, how much money are you going to make? is it even worth wasting your entire Sunday sitting there?
ist es möglich für ein quesadilla skrotum zu lecken? beim sprechen der quesadillas von LBF, ja. ja in der tatheheheheheheehehee! |
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
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Posted - 01/16/2005 : 11:28:00
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Floop, you are sure to love this. Head on over right now.
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 01/16/2005 : 11:30:33
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that actually looks good. that, i would stop for. i see all kinds of gems in there. (the surfboard alone is eye catching. but i also see some camping equipment way back there. a mini igloo [don't need one, but hey, it could be cheap])
ist es möglich für ein quesadilla skrotum zu lecken? beim sprechen der quesadillas von LBF, ja. ja in der tatheheheheheheehehee! |
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Posted - 01/16/2005 : 11:33:59
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I make a sale like that every year before Christmas with those things that we make at our work but can't sell them or that are out of order. Our friends love that, some of them buy all the presents here, and we make some money!
It's very good because we can have a afternoon full of friends, they clean all our objects and we get some money to buy them presents too!
Purify the colors, purify my mind,
and spread the ashes of the colors
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
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Posted - 01/16/2005 : 11:35:11
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So what you're saying, Rita, is that next year you will invite your
forum friends to your pre-holiday clearance sale? Right?
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Posted - 01/16/2005 : 11:40:33
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Sure, you can all come, I'll be waiting for you...
Purify the colors, purify my mind,
and spread the ashes of the colors
over this heart of mine!
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 01/16/2005 : 12:53:07
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There was this one guy at the swap meet out in Goleta who
always had the same five rusted garden tools displayed
on an old piece of cloth. Week after week.
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VoVat
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
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Posted - 01/16/2005 : 18:39:59
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a mini igloo [don't need one, but hey, it could be cheap]
You can never have too many mini igloos!
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There was this one guy at the swap meet out in Goleta who
always had the same five rusted garden tools displayed
on an old piece of cloth.
Well, I'm going to take the advice of Camper Van Beethoven, and not go to Goleta.
"Reunion? Shit union!" |
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 01/16/2005 : 18:57:07
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People who live there call Goleta "the good land." Argh!
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The King Of Karaoke
> Teenager of the Year <
USA
3759 Posts |
Posted - 01/16/2005 : 19:06:42
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I always crack up when you go to a garage sale and there's nothing but a bunch of crap. I'll whisper to my friend nice GAR-BAGE sale. One thing that ticks me off is when people leave their signs up all over the place and just wait for them to fall off and become litter. I always have wanted to walk up to someones door some random tuesday two weeks after the event and start asking about the garage sale I saw that they were having.
It would be like:
Dumbass - "Oh, uh?.. No. that was two Saturdays ago."
Me- "What? No, you see there's these signs all over the fucking neighborhood saying there's a garage sale here."
Dumbass (Now slightly perturbed at my cursing) - Well it was TWO weeks ago.
Me (Now peeking into the kitchen) - "Well, how much for that toaster?"
now Mr. Dumbass comes to the door - "Excuse me what do you want?"
Me -" Well, I want to buy something at your garage sale."
Mr. and Mrs. Dumbass simultaneously shouting - "WE'RE NOT HAVING A GARAGE SALE!!"
Me - Really? Well, then what I actually want is for you to go take all the fucking gargage sale signs you've had up for two weeks down!
If you're not going to do that I want you to sell me that damn toaster! Then tomorrow I'll be back looking for an ironing board, so start working on a price!"
Sorry, got a little carried away there. All Yerba mate'd up
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slaveish
= Cult of Ray =
USA
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Posted - 01/16/2005 : 23:39:07
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LA has a lot of yard sales. I think that's why you see the really small ones, floop. There are yard sales of every size. and people don't mind sitting outside on a pleasant day in los angeles. I don't think they care if they sell anything.
here everyone just puts stuff out on the curb and it's free for the pickin. |
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 01/17/2005 : 02:25:06
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no one doesn't enjoy a pleasant day in Los Angeles. it's just.. there are other ways to enjoy it than sitting by your blanket of 3 pathetic items all day which no one is going to buy, and even if they do buy them you stand to make about 17 cents.
go to the beach
ist es möglich für ein quesadilla skrotum zu lecken? beim sprechen der quesadillas von LBF, ja. ja in der tatheheheheheheehehee! |
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ramona
"FB Quote Mistress"
USA
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Posted - 01/17/2005 : 07:21:20
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I love looking at yard sales but people get too attached to their STUFF. When I see ridiculous prices on things, I always want to laugh. Sorry, but your old picture frame is not worth $2. You have to price things reasonably and realize you are basically saying "Buy my old crap!"
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Before they turn the summer into dust
If the children don't grow up -
Our bodies get bigger, but our hearts get torn up...
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Broken Face
-= Forum Pistolero =-
USA
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Posted - 01/17/2005 : 07:55:35
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i lvoe garage sales and thrift stores, and anyplace to get good, old stuff cheap. i'm still hoping to find a nice, old analog synth at a garage sale when some old lady doesn't know what it is.
-Brian
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
17125 Posts |
Posted - 01/17/2005 : 09:54:21
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Originally posted by The King Of Karaoke
I always crack up when you go to a garage sale and there's nothing but a bunch of crap. I'll whisper to my friend nice GAR-BAGE sale. One thing that ticks me off is when people leave their signs up all over the place and just wait for them to fall off and become litter. I always have wanted to walk up to someones door some random tuesday two weeks after the event and start asking about the garage sale I saw that they were having.
It would be like:
Dumbass - "Oh, uh?.. No. that was two Saturdays ago."
Me- "What? No, you see there's these signs all over the fucking neighborhood saying there's a garage sale here."
Dumbass (Now slightly perturbed at my cursing) - Well it was TWO weeks ago.
Me (Now peeking into the kitchen) - "Well, how much for that toaster?"
now Mr. Dumbass comes to the door - "Excuse me what do you want?"
Me -" Well, I want to buy something at your garage sale."
Mr. and Mrs. Dumbass simultaneously shouting - "WE'RE NOT HAVING A GARAGE SALE!!"
Me - Really? Well, then what I actually want is for you to go take all the fucking gargage sale signs you've had up for two weeks down!
If you're not going to do that I want you to sell me that damn toaster! Then tomorrow I'll be back looking for an ironing board, so start working on a price!"
Sorry, got a little carried away there. All Yerba mate'd up
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"I am not a plonker".
Hehe, I wish you did have that conversation. If you do, tape it and post a link to it here.
We don't have these sales much here, hardly ever in fact. I don't even see jumble sales advertised much here nowadays either
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 01/17/2005 : 11:59:25
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What's funny about the morons who leave up the signs forever
is that, duh, it's easy for everyone to figure out it's them, the
people who live at this address here on the sign that everyone
can read, these people are the morons who left the signs up all
over town.
I still believe in the excellent joy of the Frank |
Edited by - kathryn on 01/17/2005 12:00:40 |
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 01/17/2005 : 12:04:59
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"jumble sales"?
can't you guys just talk right?
ist es möglich für ein quesadilla skrotum zu lecken? beim sprechen der quesadillas von LBF, ja. ja in der tatheheheheheheehehee! |
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kathryn
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Belgium
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Posted - 01/17/2005 : 12:09:29
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"jumble"?
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 01/17/2005 : 13:41:22
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Originally posted by ramona
You have to price things reasonably and realize you are basically saying "Buy my old crap!"
in some cases, you're also saying "I'm white trash"
ist es möglich für ein quesadilla skrotum zu lecken? beim sprechen der quesadillas von LBF, ja. ja in der tatheheheheheheehehee! |
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dayanara
* Dog in the Sand *
Australia
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Posted - 01/17/2005 : 13:44:43
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I always thought they were called rummage sales.
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
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Posted - 01/17/2005 : 14:51:12
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Not here, they are called jumble sales here. They are indoors though and usually organised by old women and attended by old women. Having said that, I picked up some excellent toys from them as a child. I seem to remember getting a huge tin full of small, plastic soldiers for about 50 pence. Kept me amused for for years.
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The King Of Karaoke
> Teenager of the Year <
USA
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Posted - 01/17/2005 : 19:44:21
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Originally posted by Homers_pet_monkey
quote:
Originally posted by The King Of Karaoke
I always crack up when you go to a garage sale and there's nothing but a bunch of crap. I'll whisper to my friend nice GAR-BAGE sale. One thing that ticks me off is when people leave their signs up all over the place and just wait for them to fall off and become litter. I always have wanted to walk up to someones door some random tuesday two weeks after the event and start asking about the garage sale I saw that they were having.
It would be like:
Dumbass - "Oh, uh?.. No. that was two Saturdays ago."
Me- "What? No, you see there's these signs all over the fucking neighborhood saying there's a garage sale here."
Dumbass (Now slightly perturbed at my cursing) - Well it was TWO weeks ago.
Me (Now peeking into the kitchen) - "Well, how much for that toaster?"
now Mr. Dumbass comes to the door - "Excuse me what do you want?"
Me -" Well, I want to buy something at your garage sale."
Mr. and Mrs. Dumbass simultaneously shouting - "WE'RE NOT HAVING A GARAGE SALE!!"
Me - Really? Well, then what I actually want is for you to go take all the fucking gargage sale signs you've had up for two weeks down!
If you're not going to do that I want you to sell me that damn toaster! Then tomorrow I'll be back looking for an ironing board, so start working on a price!"
Sorry, got a little carried away there. All Yerba mate'd up
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"I am not a plonker".
Hehe, I wish you did have that conversation. If you do, tape it and post a link to it here.
We don't have these sales much here, hardly ever in fact. I don't even see jumble sales advertised much here nowadays either
http://www.thefutureheads.co.uk/
Okay, it's official. That's my new comedy project. I'll need a small camera. This is going to be better than my Hungry Hungry Hippo's joke!
Thanks for the motivation MonkeyBoy!
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
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Posted - 01/18/2005 : 11:31:40
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I've only heard them called "swap meets" in California
(Cali to you, floop), which always sounds to my ear
as vaguely sexual and tawdry.
I still believe in the excellent joy of the Frank |
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Posted - 01/18/2005 : 11:35:38
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My sales aren't pathetical!
Purify the colors, purify my mind,
and spread the ashes of the colors
over this heart of mine!
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 01/18/2005 : 11:48:00
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quote:
Originally posted by kathryn
I've only heard them called "swap meets" in California
(Cali to you, floop), which always sounds to my ear
as vaguely sexual and tawdry.
I still believe in the excellent joy of the Frank
ask BLT (another native) is anyone he knows calls it "Cali"
it's only because of that horrible song "going back to Cali" that people (from the east coast) call it that
ist es möglich für ein quesadilla skrotum zu lecken? beim sprechen der quesadillas von LBF, ja. ja in der tatheheheheheheehehee! |
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starmekitten
-= Forum Pistolera =-
United Kingdom
6370 Posts |
Posted - 01/18/2005 : 11:49:22
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Jumble sales, car boot sales and Charity (thrift! oy!) shops
Thats what they are called. Actually...
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KimStanleyRobinson
* Dog in the Sand *
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Posted - 01/18/2005 : 12:04:20
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Location, location, location.
Never go to a yard sale at a trailer park.
Neither snow nor rain nor gloom of night shall
stay these couriers from the swift completion
of their appointed rounds
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starmekitten
-= Forum Pistolera =-
United Kingdom
6370 Posts |
Posted - 01/18/2005 : 12:15:40
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Do you guys have car boot sales???
When I was a youth 45% of my clothes/cd's/books/junk came from boot sales. 45% from charity shops and 10% were bought new. I was the best read, worst dressed kid in the district me!
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KimStanleyRobinson
* Dog in the Sand *
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Posted - 01/18/2005 : 12:25:00
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No, but we have people that will pull of on a wide spot on the side of the road and lay a bunch of junk out to sell.
I guess that would be similar.
That idea sounds kinda cool actually - just drive in and open your trunk... |
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starmekitten
-= Forum Pistolera =-
United Kingdom
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Posted - 01/18/2005 : 12:30:11
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Some of them are huge, it's a grand summer day where you drive out to a big field where there is row upon row of people selling all their stuff.
One persons trash is anothers treasure...
I got a green leather bondage coat with huge buttons for £3 once. I loved it.
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apl4eris
~ Abstract Brain ~
USA
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Posted - 01/18/2005 : 12:35:10
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bondage coat? with stirrups and gags or what?
Either your boot sales are much more...diverse than our yard sales, or my mind is way down in the gutter.
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starmekitten
-= Forum Pistolera =-
United Kingdom
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Posted - 01/18/2005 : 12:42:06
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It had a multitude of strange belt attachments you could belt up your arms like a straight jacket or behind your back and in a few random ways. I bought it from some old hippy because it was retro, green and I liked the buttons.
I also got a 60's/70's silver high neck split skirt quant esque patterned dress and matching sandals. It took my mum a week to throw them away, she dispaired!
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
17125 Posts |
Posted - 01/18/2005 : 14:45:19
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quote:
Originally posted by kathryn
I've only heard them called "swap meets" in California
(Cali to you, floop), which always sounds to my ear
as vaguely sexual and tawdry.
I still believe in the excellent joy of the Frank
Always reminds me of Nirvana.
Here you go, a Jumble sale in all it's glory.
 goosnargh@btinternet.com/images/jumble.JPG" border="0">
I bet those two young scamps down the front as hunting for tins full of plastic toy soldiers for 50p. No chance lads, I got the last one! HA!
Oh and KoK?, what Hungry hippos joke? Do tell!
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
17125 Posts |
Posted - 01/18/2005 : 14:51:42
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OK, let's see if this one works.
Hold on one goddam second! What's this penguin related product I spy bottom right!? Shit! I wonder if they still have it? That old bat near it better not have gotten her filthy mitts on it.
http://www.thefutureheads.co.uk/ |
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
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Posted - 01/18/2005 : 17:40:42
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quote:
Originally posted by floop
quote:
Originally posted by kathryn
I've only heard them called "swap meets" in California
(Cali to you, floop), which always sounds to my ear
as vaguely sexual and tawdry.
I still believe in the excellent joy of the Frank
ask BLT (another native) is anyone he knows calls it "Cali"
it's only because of that horrible song "going back to Cali" that people (from the east coast) call it that
ist es möglich für ein quesadilla skrotum zu lecken? beim sprechen der quesadillas von LBF, ja. ja in der tatheheheheheheehehee!
Don't be dragging BLT down to your level, floop. He is a nice boy.
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