time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking.
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Although this is a phallusy.
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There are many recipes for the flat round loaves of Lancre dwarf bread, but the common aim of all of them is to make a field ration that is long-lasting, easily packed, and can disembowel the enemy if skimmed through the air hard enough. Edibility is a kind of optional extra. Most recipes are a closely guarded secret, apart from the gravel.
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Hence the term 'wholesale destruction'.
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The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid- back valley in the lower Ramtops, have a passing-out test for a novice. He is taken into a room full of all types of clothing and asked: Yo[43], my son, which of these is the most stylish thing to wear? And the correct answer is: Hey, whatever I select.
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Cool, but not necessarily up to date.
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Nanny Ogg was also a great picker-up of unconsidered trifles.
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When Hwel the playwright turned up with the rest of the troupe the next day, they told him all about it, and he wrote it down. But he left out all the bits that wouldn't fit on a stage, or were too expensive, or which he didn't believe. In any case, he called it The Taming of the Vole, because no one would be interested in a play called Things that Happened on A Midsummer Night.
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