Midlifing
By Lee Miller and Simon Ellis
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Two friends Lee and Simon have serious conversations about silly things, and silly conversations about serious things. Together they dig into the pleasures, absurdities and imperfections of being human.
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284: Loitering With Intent
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May 13, 2026 |
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283: Rickety Bridge, Sexy People
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May 06, 2026 |
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282: You're a Nutritionist's Nightmare
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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281: The Numbers of the Beast
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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280: The Uncomfortable Truth About Liking Things
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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279: When Did Being an Idealist Become a Bad Thing?
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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278: A Wondrous, Wondrous Crying
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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277: We the People Decided to Step Forward
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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276: Dance Like You’ve Got No Hair
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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275: Probably the Safest Place in the World
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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274: I Could See Their 14-Year-Old Faces
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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273: Even From the Other Side of the World
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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272: Deal with the stink of shit, we don’t want to upset the sparrows
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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271: Nine Minutes of Tai Chi a Day
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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270: I Don’t Think There Are Appropriate Modes of Behaviour in WhatsApp
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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269: Bonkbusters Like Blockbusters About Bonking
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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268: We Always Have Staff Meetings on an Empty Stomach
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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267: When Boys Kiss
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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266: It was finocchio season
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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265: Tiny Little Steps Toward a Very Far-Off Ending
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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264: Jingle Bells, Batman Smells
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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263: I said it was a cultural lesson
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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262: Holy shit ... dating
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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261: A big kind of furry thing with long ears
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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260: Stay on your own bloody mat, America
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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259: Flesh and bone, baby
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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258: If I Were a Box I Would Not Be a Young One
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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257: Three Pieces of Fruit and a Can of Beer
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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256: Manic pixie dream boy
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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255: You're the woke police
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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254: House in multiple occupation
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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253: The coat has ceased to fit me
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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252: Eighty percent of our DNA is shared with a banana
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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251: Auto Gaslightery in the Workplace
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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250: Hello. Something's not right.
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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249: Serviceable doesn’t sound like bake-off winner, does it?
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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248: Millennial Zillennial Whatever
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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247: Jiminy Cricket in a Top Hat
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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246: Strange Creatures, Aren’t We?
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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245: Are you asking the dog?
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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244: I’m Just Going to Put Myself into Flight Mode
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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243: Rock-a-bye Beer Beer
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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242: Giving Someone the Bicycle
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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241: A Massive Discrepancy Between My Email and My Face
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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240: Threadbare smalls and other legacies
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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239: Commando at Five O’Clock in the Morning
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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238: Cicadas on the Inside, Birds on the Out
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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237: That's Dirty. That's Real Dirty.
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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236: Do you think you suffer from pronoia?
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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235: They no longer have needs, they are dead.
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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234: If you were at the thin end of the wedge of intolerance
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May 28, 2025 |
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233: You would be delighted if you could smell me
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May 21, 2025 |
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232: People will come into your home and judge you
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May 14, 2025 |
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231: Returning love for hate I am covered in wine
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May 07, 2025 |
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230: Everyone loves something even if it's just a tortilla
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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229: Nothing says Mum like Microsoft
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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228: Breaking marble all over the place
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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227: Anything is improved by being fried
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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226: That we are not separate and do not want to be
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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225: People my age have children that age
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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224: A low lying bubble of cortisol
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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223: I have had an experience with ladybirds and it was horrific
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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222: Groping for the lightswitch at some point in my future
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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221: Podcasting with Homer Simpson
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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220: She used the word sausage factory
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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219: So many heaven songs
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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218: Like any new drug you start to take
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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217: What to do if you are shit at knitting
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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216: Men talking about how they were feeling (Part 2 of 2)
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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215: Men talking about how they were feeling (Part 1 of 2)
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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214: He did want it slightly stretched
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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213: The silicon chip inside your head
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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212: Put it in the back and bubble wrap it
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Dec 25, 2024 |
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211: Some people I know talk from their throat
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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210: Be careful this podcast is reversing
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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209: Nobody has ever died from an infection before
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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208: Do you mind if I hit your foot?
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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207: Sophisticated bees (Part 2 of 2)
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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206: Sophisticated bees (Part 1 of 2)
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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205: One centimetre in photoshop equals 50 centimetres in real life
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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204: Easily divisible by three
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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203: Unsettling music playing
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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202: You can just wander around with a lump hammer
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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201: They no remember nothing
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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200: Like weeing at the pub
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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199: I love a well-groomed ghost
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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198: Rubbing my gums with the numbing stuff
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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197: I think my husband died but I had earplugs in
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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196: I love the word nemesis
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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195: Trained to believe it
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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194: Everyone in the room is in the dark
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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193: The transcendant awesomeness of the films themselves
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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192: Smug evangelising sneaking in
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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191: Why am I craving balsamic?
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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190: People are killing their teeth
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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189: Still in the process of being nurtured
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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188: Run and jump through it like Superman
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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187: A little bit of pre-marital sex to borderline orgy
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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186: Now Varley! The bugs!
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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185: Semi-Santa self
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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184: Mainlining pizza
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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183: You are a cult beauty
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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182: Join me in the middle it's amazing here
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May 29, 2024 |
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181: Hand on the knee going nnagghhwwww
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May 22, 2024 |
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180: Spelt like Manchester sounds like Liverpool
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May 20, 2024 |
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179: Ossified and greedy
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May 08, 2024 |
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178: The thingamagy whatsit with the people
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May 01, 2024 |
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177: Everybody say tofurkey
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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176: The P zombie
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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175: Simon had a fall
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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174: Just flick to kick
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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173: Penelope is going to die
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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172: Do you want someone to butter your muffin?
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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171: The very definition of flibbertigibbet
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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170: They are all going to laugh at you
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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169: I almost finished watching Mean Girls
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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168: An episode of Mister Men
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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167: Reaching out through the solitude
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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166: Pineapple on pizza
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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165: I don't want a normal life what's wrong with normal?
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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164: An innate conniving ability
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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163: Margarine was done to me
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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162: Other brothers of his also died from heart disease
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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161: Join your funny little club together
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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160: I fucking hate clowns
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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159: To celebrate and sparkle and shine
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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158: I could be held over a barrel
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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157: Whether you think dance is trivial or not
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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156: I'll cut that out so you don't sound so cloth-eared
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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155: Kung fu-ing the fuck out of your job
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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154: A Venchi original gangster
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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153: Firing on better cylinders
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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152: Often with a tassle
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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151: A little bit of wobble
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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150: The joy of having a brain
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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149: Reappropriation (this is not an episode)
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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148: a film that Timothée Chalamet was in recently
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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147: Don't go on stage with a drunk human
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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146: Performing the grunt
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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145: The source of all light
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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144: They don't theme their avarice
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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143: I sit there on a bouncy ball just watching them
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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142: All our love
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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141: The summer I turned 50
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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140: Social sniffing
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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139: My prostate is working fine
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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138: He was wearing lycra overalls
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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137: They go weeeeeeeeeeeeeee (Part 2 of 2)
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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136: They go weeeeeeeeeeeeeee (Part 1 of 2)
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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135: Hit me with your best shot (Part 3 of 3)
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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134: Hit me with your best shot (Part 2 of 3)
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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133: Hit me with your best shot (Part 1 of 3)
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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132: The levers to hurt
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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131: Booty shorts and nothing else (Part 2 of 2)
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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130: Booty shorts and nothing else (Part 1 of 2)
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May 31, 2023 |
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129: A can of neoliberal worms
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May 24, 2023 |
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128: I think I am going to need to shave my arm hair
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May 17, 2023 |
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127: The New Zealand that existed no longer exists
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May 10, 2023 |
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126: Vanilla kinky
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May 03, 2023 |
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125: I was once at a wedding with a Marine
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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124: Arriving at a funeral with a bottle of champagne and some balloons
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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123: All that glitters is not gold
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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122: Much much betterer
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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121: It's not easy being green
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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120: Hungry like the pangolin (Part 2 of 2)
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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119: Gary can wait (three point five sheets to the wind)
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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118: Hungry like the pangolin (Part 1 of 2)
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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117: He had dirty blond hair and he was shorter than me
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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116: Baking is a mouth format
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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115: Coming in strong with scented candles
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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114: An illegal stream of Liverpool playing Brighton
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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113: One more scone in the name of love
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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112: Somebody begat somebody begat somebody
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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111: I thought you might Billy Elliot the fuck out of it
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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110: What does your nose look like when you are baking bread?
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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109: Moist is a perfectly acceptable word
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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108: Sitting on the toilet crying
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Dec 28, 2022 |
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107: We are just having fun
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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106: A miasma of complications
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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105: I can see you and I can see you
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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104: An apology in human form
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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103: I don't like literacy
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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102: A rich rich ragú
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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101: Welcome to 101 everybody
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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100: That wasn't Tammy Wynette that was me
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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99: Roll titles
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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98: Eric Serra is going to be so happy
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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97: He's no Mads Mikkelsen
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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96: Which one of you bitches is my mother?
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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95: A potato of doubt in your head
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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94: He threw himself on the grenade that is an iPhone
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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93: Thumbs up for your trauma
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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92: Here's someone who promised us the world
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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91: A testament to forgiveness
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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90: Which necessitates a certain level of structural jiggery-pokery (Part 2 of 2)
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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89: Which necessitates a certain level of structural jiggery-pokery (Part 1 of 2)
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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88: Making myself sound less righteous in the edit
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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87: Who are you? (Part 2 of 2)
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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86: Who are you? (Part 1 of 2)
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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85: It's too late
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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84: Three trains and two buses
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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83: One set of ears (Part 2 of 2)
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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82: One set of ears (Part 1 of 2)
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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81: And now for the weather
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May 25, 2022 |
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80: I don't find halloumi upsetting
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May 18, 2022 |
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79: A low-digit odd number
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May 11, 2022 |
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78: Eternal bosom of hot love
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May 04, 2022 |
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77: Throw it in, seal it up
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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76: Some kind of beautiful kimono
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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75: The heron that shits on the iceberg of your life
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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74: Coming to you live from purgatory
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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73: A cloth ear for comedy
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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72: Thrusting show titles at me
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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71: Are we just going to get into this?
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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70: Don't kill the pig Jefrey
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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69: I realised you are right about everything
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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68: Incidents and accidents, hints and allegations
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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67: Walt Whitman is robbing from the bible
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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66: A non-sequitur too far
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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65: A one in one out policy
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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64: The half-life of friendships
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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63: The insurmountable problem of world messiness
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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62: I am not sure that biting hard on a stick will do it for me
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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61: Chicken steps
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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60: That's what balaclavas are for Simon
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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59: Part 2 - "Seems," madam? Nay, it is; I know not "seems."
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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58: Part 1 - "Seems," madam? Nay, it is; I know not "seems."
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Trying to get back to normal
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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98th percentile kidney size
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Like two little piss holes in the snow
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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Clutching my pearls in horror
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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All roads lead to the same place
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Was it something about the burger that triggered you?
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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Fingers crossed it works out this time
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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That's a spicy meatball as they say nowhere
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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I have never seen anyone go around it like you
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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Oh future boy you are making my life so complicated
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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A strange sort of trainer wheel situation
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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It has not been hung very long but who am I to judge?
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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As he gazed with that slack-jawed look of a teenager
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Dangerously close to our specialisms
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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As in men and women
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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It turns out I like a wet martini
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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I have got my message machine ready
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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You could be in New Zealand or you could be around the corner
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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A nice light baritone edging towards a tenor
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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The me that is now asking the her that is then
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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There's quite a big gap, and then Paul
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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Overdue Part 2 - Soup of freedom
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Overdue Part 1 - A stand up sauna for one
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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Uniquely qualified if not an expert
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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We're not saying we didn't inhale
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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Like a bidet for your mouth
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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We've got a great show lined up for you today
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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Heart attacks can present in a variety of ways
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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Ahoy there maties
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May 26, 2021 |
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Dialling down the coolness
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May 19, 2021 |
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I get involved in the sniff
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May 12, 2021 |
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Two people monologuing about themselves near one another
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May 05, 2021 |
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Something you will only ever get right once in your life
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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The blood clot one
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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If you fall I will catch you
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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Teaching boys to close their curtains
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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Finding pleasure
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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Hallmarks of competence
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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Dry humping the walls
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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Making a virtue out of necessity
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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There is no promise to the future
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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One person's Star Wars is another person's cheese
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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You dial it up and then it unwinds
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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We don't feel like we always have something to add
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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We need a bigger towel
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Feb 03, 2021 |
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A totally stink conversation about being out of control
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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Whenever I opened my mouth everybody else shut up
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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The most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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We hold ourselves responsible but at the same time let ourselves off
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Jan 06, 2021 |
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A double loss twice
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Jan 01, 2021 |
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It hurts so much to hear you say that (part 2 of 2)
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Dec 30, 2020 |
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On circlusion
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Dec 25, 2020 |
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It hurts so much to hear you say that (part 1 of 2)
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Dec 23, 2020 |
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They’re your worms you didn't tell us where you kept them
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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I got the giggles so badly I was reminded of being at church
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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You've never thrown your keys in my fish bowl
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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Gwyneth Paltrow came to me as a fully formed memory
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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Until one day we go to eat and our head just falls into our plates
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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The primacy of the erection
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Nov 11, 2020 |