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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.

#2

Deutscher Patriotismus vs. American Patriotism

Deutscher Patriotismus vs. American Patriotism

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#3

"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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#6

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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#9

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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#14

"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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#15

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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#16

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

You can't spend your money twice, you know. When we just set aside $790 billion for the military, it's obvious we have to cut on some budgets. Yours sincerely, US government.

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

In my country children have free school lunches. I really don't understand why America is even considered such a great country...

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

For the past 50 years they have been slowly becoming a third world country.

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

Good on the kid, shame on the school/government that made his actions necessary.

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

Shame the corporations in the area for asking for tax cuts just for setting up in town. Blame the top earners who get Republicans elected so they don't have to pay the taxes that would feed those kids.

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CatWoman312
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What we should be doing here is being disgusted by the fact that they force children to go hungry

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

How many more key chains will he have to make in order to clear his future medical debt?

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

Another gem in the series of dystopic events re-packaged as feel-good-stories.

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

Says something about America doesn't it? And I'm not having a "U.S. sucks" at it. It just sounds so freaking wrong!

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

There is far too much money to be made with Americans being set up for failure though.

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

This child now knows what he can achieve and the effort it takes. He also sees the huge rewards in doing for others. He is light years ahead of his peers and most adults.

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

This is not a feel-good story. This is a "we have no empathy or social consciousness so we make kids enter the labor force story".

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

No free school meals then? All kids in UK get free school meals to the age of 7, and continue to do so after that if their family is on benefits.

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Lillukka79
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In Finland school lunch is free for everybody all the way through secondary education.

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

This young man shamed this school, district, and state just by doing the decent thing. He showed generosity of spirit in the face of self-righteous cruelty.

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

i go to a kind of poor school and they have started giving out free lunch and breakfast

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cybermerlin2000
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember asking a student (neighbours kid) how much he owes at school not too long back. He said "A curly wurly"

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

I see so many of these stories, especially in the US. And I always think: 'What does it say about the state of this country that this kind fo thing is even necessary??'

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

Since when did shaking a hand become "manual labor". Bravo for his efforts, but let's be real here people. $5 for s handshake to pay months of meals that the average person(prior to Covid) did on average 20 times a day. A simple handshake.

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

If the kid is this motivated this young, imagine what his future will be like. Sky's the limit, kiddo. You keep that ambition and compassion right there with it...

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

How is THIS a hilarious comeback?! Panda...you've slaughtered this.

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

Bless his sweet heart. Would like to be around to see the amazing person he grows up to be.

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

And gets praised for something he never should have had to do in the first place!

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

Some You tube personality did a video on these kinds of stories (merketed as heartwarming but actually pointing to major social ills): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXpKvlFQxEs

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

I do not think we have free lunches in Australia, we didn't when I was growing up anyway. My issue with all of this is that while the child did an amazing thing, adults let him do what he did, why the hell can't a school cover its own bills, if that was his school and six others then it was a few hundred per school, that is ridiculous that that is not budgeted for.

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

I'm excited to see what an amazing person thenchild will grow up to be!

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

Stories like this shows us that we have to look out for one another as we can’t depend or wait for our electives to do so

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

Amazing little guy, I tip my hat to him but yeah, why is this his problem?

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

What the f**k is a lunch debt? Can't you just stop supersizing every meal and give some to the students who need to eat in order to learn so that they can work serving no-longer-supersized meals to no-longer-supersized people? Or do you really think celebrating little Timmy's reaction to watching his friends go hungry is a great example of the beacon of freedom? Oh thank god a 7 year old came along and solved a problem all the f*****g adults were happy to continue ignoring.

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

Yay ! One more effort, Americans, and child labor and slavery will be back soon !

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

Alright, I'll probably get downvoted for this I am asking a legitimate question. There are so many ways to get free school lunch and they come in the beginning of school packets. If you're on food stamps, WIC, welfare or any government programs, below the poverty line or if the income, when divided among the family, comes to 10,000 or less per person. Is this a big city problem? I live in the rural South. When we couldn't afford lunch we just brought our own. Like I sincerely don't understand why affording school lunch is a problem. Are you forced to buy school lunch in other places? Is it more then the 2.15 it is here a day? I'm just trying to understand to understand the issue.

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

It’s very possible that children can’t just bring their own lunch. Unhappily, not all parents have the income to ensure the availability of peanut butter, bread, and apples. For some it’s an impossibility, for others it’s a lack of prioritization of the child’s needs. Whatever the reason, you can’t allow people go hungry. Making sure everyone gets fed is the absolute lowest criteria of a decent society.

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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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#24

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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