He wanted to make a clean getaway!
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Drinking, bathing, washing, swimming, etc.
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he said, "Those are pickled onions".
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Five. One to screw it in and four to tell him how bitchin' he looked doing it.
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Snow balls!
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It takes them a long time to swallow their pride.
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Only one, but they get three tech. reports out of it.
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