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I can tell a story in six words!
T'was a dark and stormy night
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6/6/2014 1:54:40 PM
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T'was a dark and stormy night
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I can tell a story in six words!
- Jody -
6/5/2014 4:04:27 PM
Movement is accomplished in six stages
- ER -
7/2/2014 1:00:39 PM
ER, Dan, Frank, Bowser are shitheads.
- Jody -
6/14/2014 12:47:54 AM
As my German bachelor uncles used to call me - - -
- bowser -
6/19/2014 5:00:50 AM
Bless you!
- Jody -
6/19/2014 11:21:12 AM
Known universal constants are so irrefutable. (n/t)
- DanS -
6/16/2014 4:23:48 PM
Yeah, I am first among shitheads.
- ER -
6/14/2014 1:53:01 AM
As if there was any doubt.
- Jody -
6/14/2014 2:12:35 AM
It's the end of the line. (n/t)
- DanS -
6/12/2014 6:32:19 PM
That was where he kept it. (n/t)
- DanS -
6/12/2014 6:30:47 PM
This is where I keep it. (n/t)
- DanS -
6/12/2014 6:29:47 PM
I know where you keep it.
- ER -
6/12/2014 6:39:32 PM
...It came -- from somwhere -- out -- there... (n/t)
- DanS -
6/10/2014 6:31:26 PM
T'was a dark and stormy night
- FrankC -
6/6/2014 1:54:40 PM
When suddenly there came a tapping. (n/t)
- DanS -
6/19/2014 6:24:56 PM
A tapping at my chamber door. (n/t)
- DanS -
6/17/2014 3:24:47 PM
That wasn't on a dark and stormy night, as I recall it was a midnight dreary...
- FrankC -
6/24/2014 4:20:23 AM
And it was a "rapping", before the gentle "tapping" . . .
- DanS -
6/25/2014 2:36:54 PM
She knew the end was beginning.
- Jody -
6/5/2014 5:45:59 PM
He had known it all along.
- ER -
6/5/2014 6:44:45 PM
He knew it from the start.
- ER -
6/5/2014 11:07:19 PM
She hesitated, he didn't, name's "Bubba".
- bowser -
6/7/2014 4:30:02 PM
Hey, Bubba! Use the flux capaciter!
- DanS -
6/10/2014 7:22:59 PM
Oh, Bubba! No capacity to flux?
- ER -
6/13/2014 9:51:48 PM
It was over before it began.
- bowser -
6/7/2014 4:24:40 PM
6...5...4...3...2...1....
- Jody -
6/6/2014 1:13:28 AM
Hello, Houston -- we have a problem... (n/t)
- DanS -
6/17/2014 3:23:36 PM
Houston? Houston? Houston? Is anybody there?
- Jody -
6/17/2014 4:32:02 PM
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