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9. It took me a long time to figure out that simmer dog by his side

Reply to Orrex (Original post)

Thu Mar 23, 2017, 05:56 PM

Mar 2017

It was really a scimitar.

Yeah, different age. But is it any more offensive than, say, The Big Bang Theory, where the Sheldon character goes on about little hot dogs cut up in his spaghetti as being real "Eye-talian" food?

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