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You know the feeling. You get into an argument with someone, the two of you are going at each other back and forth, and they get you so riled up that you suddenly can't think of a good comeback until long after the fight is over.

There's actually a French term for this called l'esprit de l'escalier. It describes the feeling you get when you come up with the perfect reply after the fact.

We've all been there. It's devastating.

So let's take a moment and pay our respects to and celebrate the really good comebacks—the ultimate expressions of wit and cleverness. Taken from the appropriately titled subreddit r/MurderedByWords, here are some of the best ways people have ended their disagreements.

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Deutscher Patriotismus vs. American Patriotism

Deutscher Patriotismus vs. American Patriotism

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"Educate Your Self"

"Educate Your Self"

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That’s A Stupid Reason To Ban Transgender People

That’s A Stupid Reason To Ban Transgender People

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Anti Vaxxer Pretends To Be Educated

Anti Vaxxer Pretends To Be Educated

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Stephanie Did It
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And polio, measles, pneumonia, diptheria, influenza? Oh and that pesky Bubonic Plague. A healthy gut sure worked there.

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Seabeast
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don't forget typhoid. Mary Mallon may have had a strong enough immune system to not ever have symptoms, but she killed enough people to earn the title "Typhoid Mary".

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Ben Moss
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How do these dipshits still not get it? How did education fail to teach them the basic fact that vaccines are exercise for our immune systems?? It’s like war games. It’s training! It makes the immune system stronger! THATS HOW IT F*****G WORKS, people!

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Helderder
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Jup only studies show these vaccins are less effective in people with auto immune diseases. I'm really curious about that. My immune system is allways in overdrive.

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Aleksandra Rusbasan
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How do vaccines "lower your immune system"? That's like saying working out at the gym lowers your muscular system; It makes no sense.

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Vicky Z
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They say that because with the vaccine they insert to you an inactive part of the virus! I really don't understand how they manage to read only one thing of how a vaccine works and they mess so much the rest.... makes no sense! But i guess there is no logic in stupidity!

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Sam rice
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sanitation and antiseptics weren't a thing then either and wouldn't you know with that and vaccinations life expectancy is longer. Crazy

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Kathryn Baylis
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Commenter #1 started out with some great advice. But they just couldn’t stop while they were ahead, and had to round out their statement with total unfounded, untreated sewage-quality bullshit. Commenter #2 totally slayed them with verified historical fact. Kudos to Commenter #2.

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Marnie
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Vaccinations, by definition, increase your body's ability to fight off disease, not "lower your immune system".

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InfectedVoice
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Medicine and medical knowledge is something that has lowered the mortality rate massively in the last 100 years. Simple.

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Orange Juice
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Vaccines literally boost your immune system. That is the entire point. They create antibodies without actually having the disease.

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Jon Steensen
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To be fair, not everyone died of smallpox. If that was the case, we would not be here today. However everybody had the potential of dying of smallpox, and we have reduced that risc profoundly by vacines.

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Seabeast
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The people who survived often had some pretty horrible effects for the rest of their lives. Ever seen a smallpox vaccination scar on the upper arm of an older person? (I have one!) Imagine hundreds of those scars covering the entire body and face. Imagine someone being blind because the same pustules that caused the skin scars have erupted on their eyeballs. That was smallpox.

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Jo Chrisco
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Baby boomers were vaccinated for polio at school. We lined up like troops going to war. No one in their right mind would have told the doctors not to vaccinate their kids.

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Piper McLean
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Past: got a fever? Possibly dead. Now: got a fever? That sucks, get well soon.

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Katie Lutesinger
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People like this tool need to be taken on a field trip to the cemetery so they can see all the sad little tombstones on the graves of children who died of smallpox and diphtheria, measles and polio back in pre-vaccination times. Next stop after that: Six mandatory hours spent living in an iron lung. It's the sheer arrogant complacency that really gets to me. You didn't personally grow up watching half your siblings succumb to preventable diseases so therefore it was never a problem? Seriously??

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No.
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

some of those things are true tho (to an extent): washing your hands with soap and water is better at dealing with covid (if you dont have it already), you should drink the purest water you can get by filtering tap water (you dont want lead poisoning, and it tastes better when filtered), and you need to go outside once in a while to get vitamin D.

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Rissie
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That comeback is uneducated too. You need both. A healthy lifestyle is a great way to boost your immune system and a vaccination is awesome for diseases we just can't fight. And in the times of smallpox good food was not available to many. So. Yeah. Both just STFU.

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Sherman Sparks
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If anyone is dumb enough to take a vax that has been proven not to work , then they are way to stupid to give any advise to anyone.

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Florence Hastings
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It’s only half true. True, the food was organic and there wasn’t hand sanitizer but they didn’t wash their hands (or anything else). They often didn’t eat properly (too much or too little). And often their clothing wasn’t appropriate for the season. Not saying all vacines are wrong but lets get the facts right folks.

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Peter Ledoux
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Being all different there are unknowns. Now they're pushing vaccination. I got mine, you haven't? Talk to you later.

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Kelly Hartle
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh, but surely that nutjob on the internet knows more than all the doctors on the planet.

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Duncan
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Some people believe anything you say. I know people that are sure they have to do something because they were told it works. I often wonder if it is a case of Chinese Whispers handed from person to person and ends in 'purple monkey dishwasher'. [Simpsons fans will get that]

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Jacqui Dunn
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All the OP mentioned are good things, but......so are vaccines. Do them all!!

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Paige Garberding
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Antivaxxer's have no science on their side. Their world view is based on one quack doctor who lied about his research, then published it in a credible medical journal where peer review exposed his fraud. But antivaxxers have such a burning desire to think they have the answers to their kids' autism, they live on wishful thinking.

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Audra Berkley
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Everyone died of smallpox? It's a wonder there are any people left in the world!

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Evelyn Haskins
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If one doen't trust vaccines, then one should never you contraception. Let the babies die AFTER they ae born!

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Michael Beswick
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's a shame that organic food doesn't seem to increase life expectancy.

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Steve
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So far this is the ONLY devastating come back. The others are pretty lame.

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Id row
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Anyone that stupid should be put on a rocket to the sun.

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Isaac Harvey
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In an alternate reality, everyone died because of people like this one.

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Helderder
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I just received the invitation for the vaccin. Will contact my specialist to check her opinion.

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Just Try Not Being Straight For Awhile

Just Try Not Being Straight For Awhile

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Lauren Caswell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember this from a few weeks ago! After all, ii did say I wanted to, given its a brilliant comeback :D

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#8

This Comeback Belongs In The Hall Of Fame

This Comeback Belongs In The Hall Of Fame

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Jihana
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Seems like for some people the concept of consent is a pretty hard one to grasp...

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In The Interests Of Public Safety

In The Interests Of Public Safety

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Bye Bye Trash!!

Bye Bye Trash!!

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Lauren Caswell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He himself is both a boob and an ass. If he can find a like minded friend they'd make an interesting pair 😂

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#13

Honestly, You're Not Important Enough To Be Microchipped

Honestly, You're Not Important Enough To Be Microchipped

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Monday
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I ask again...why would they give us FREE microchips with our vaccinations? If they wanted to microchip us you'd better believe they're going to make us pay for it too.

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"I Don’t Understand Marches"

"I Don’t Understand Marches"

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Monday
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How does Tomi still have a job? I feel like I could write a bloody book about the moronic things I've seen from her on this website alone...Did she just never learn how to think...or at the very least google...before she speaks/posts?

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Your Bigotry Is Showing

Your Bigotry Is Showing

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Toujin C'Thlu
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Stuff like this also shows how mentally stuck in the past conservatives are. They honestly think scenes like this will actually scare people as much it scares them.

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America, F**k Yeah!

America, F**k Yeah!

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Foxxy (The Original)
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's sad that someone let alone a child needs to do this. This is a government and school funding issue.

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#17

Babies Are Not A Plaything

Babies Are Not A Plaything

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Scagsy
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Regardless of context, I think the reply was justified. As someone who can't have kids, I am sick to the back teeth of people asking me when and why we don't have kids. Mind your own business.

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$10 To Clean The Bathroom?!

$10 To Clean The Bathroom?!

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Lauren Caswell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

7 out of ten dollars? Smh is that really what they think? I pay around 19-21% and get a lot of it back in tax credits. Do you think it's the 'ism' that makes ppl think socialism is communism? We could always try calling it socialocracy

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Let's Blame Children's Knees For Making Men Uncomfortable

Let's Blame Children's Knees For Making Men Uncomfortable

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Lauren Caswell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Do they not filter out the weirdos who apply to be teachers? Or are they just good at hiding it?

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#22

God Is A White Man

God Is A White Man

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Nikki Sevven
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Funny, I've read the Bible many times, and have yet to come across the chapter and verse where God mandates that white men be in the majority. Anyone?

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#23

America Was Not Started By Protestors!

America Was Not Started By Protestors!

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Who Knows What They Put In "Food" Anyway?

Who Knows What They Put In "Food" Anyway?

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Lauren Caswell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I heard he apparently was breathing air in those two weeks, so hold ur breath and I'll get back to u asap....

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Jeepers Creepers

Jeepers Creepers

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Lauren Caswell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This, right? Taking strangers pics is not very subtle! Especially this well framed, poor dude. Now I wonder about genders reversed: guy taking picture of young woman with such inference? Well if I find that creepy (which I do), then by all logic this is equally as creepy (which it is)

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#27

There's No Vaccination For That

There's No Vaccination For That

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Gas Pump (Doesn't) Go Brrrrr

Gas Pump (Doesn't) Go Brrrrr

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Perry Sologia
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I was a kid working at a gas station, if the power failed, you cranked it by hand. Lot of years ago, mind

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“We Follow Biblical Rules”

“We Follow Biblical Rules”

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The word “homosexual” wasn’t added into the Bible until 1942. Can we not hide behind religion to excuse our homophobia, thank you.

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#37

Can't Say Much, Can We?

Can't Say Much, Can We?

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Complete Slam Dunk From This Dude

Complete Slam Dunk From This Dude

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