Your MXC Monday Evening Open Thread

NFL News:

  • Dak Prescott has one-upped the Cowboys & signed his franchise tender.
    • Now he’s winning the PR battle, because he’s not holding out of training camp.
    • The one-year tender is worth $31.4 million, per league guidelines.
      • The holdup to a long-term deal is the length of the contract.
        • Dak wants four, so he can hit free agency again at 30.
        • The Cowboys want five, to maximize their return on the investment.
    • FYI – the franchise tag for QBs in 2021 will be $37.68 million.
  • The NFL is getting pushback from both teams and players because they are forcing them to identify & codify their “contact tiers”.
    • This is important because the agreement to reopen contains specifics about whom & how many people in each tier are allowed to interact.
      • Tier 2 are people like general managers, football operations employees, other assistant coaches, video personnel, security and other essential personnel.
    • There will be daily testing of all Tier 1 & 2 employees, and there might be “surprise inspections” by the league & union.

MXC Monday – Episode 113: “Gambling Industry vs. Medical Professionals”

  • This should be near & dear to Hippo.

“The classic battle between care givers and card counters.”

This was the last episode of the first season. Don’t worry – we have four more seasons to go. Hopefully sports will come back by that point.


Tonight’s … entertainment?:

  • Ford v Ferrari – 7:25 PM | HBO
    • A fantastic car movie. Worth your time.
  • Wrasslin’:
    • Monday Night RAW – 8:00PM | USA / Sportsnet360
    • In case you missed it, or didn’t care at the time, I broke down the madness that’s gone on in wrestling over the last few days. I think it’s worth your time.
      • We all had fun in the comments.
  • Top Rank Boxing on ESPN – 8:00 PM | ESPN
    • Moloney-Franco (super flyweights)
      • Andrew Moloney (21-0, 14 KOs) vs. Joshua Franco (16-1-2, 8 KOs) in a super-flyweight title bout in Las Vegas.
  • Botched – 9:00PM | E! / E! Canada
    • Pop-up fun facts from Season 6, Episode 13.
  • KBO League:
    • Doosan Bears vs. SK Wyverns – 5:25AM | ESPN / TSN3

How desperate are the networks for any real sports? Here’s the highlighted post-midnight offering from “The Deuce”.

  • Classic WNBA Basketball: 2018: Phoenix Mercury at Seattle Storm – 2:00 AM | ESPN2

Networks, like blogs, need #content.

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Beerguyrob
A Canadian man-child of indeterminate age, he stays young by selling alcohol at sporting events and yelling at the patrons he serves. Their rage nourishes his soul, and their tips pay for his numerous trips to various sporting events.
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Gratliff

It’s an interesting dynamic there: All the outrage over police violence mixing with a president that’s already demonstrated that he has no qualms with shows of force from military police and a people increasingly frustrated with a lack of self-determination. DC doesn’t usually get considered among places most likely to have violent protests, but with ChuckleFuck McShitBag never missing a chance to antagonize the population, it wouldn’t take much to get that spark lit.

Viva La Tabula Raza

I drove through DC with my dad in his ’66 Buick Wildcat right after the riots in April 1968 following MLK’s assassination. At age 8, I was as impressed by the old man’s pistol sitting between us on the bench seat as I was with all the damage that had been done. 50+ years later, I still can’t really get my head around all that shit.

Unsurprised

Brick Meathook

Money talks. Everyone else walks.

Brick Meathook

The District of Columbia is not a state, it is a Federal District. The President doesn’t need to declare martial law to deploy the military there, and there are two infantry regiments permanently garrisoned there just for this purpose, with more at Forts Belvoir and Meade. Read a book sometime.

Gratliff

You spend a lot of time claiming to know the limits of people’s knowledge here. I’m not sure what part of anything I said implies that I didn’t know anything you just mentioned. Rest assured, I’m well aware of the state of things, and the fact of the matter is that state is shit. If I say it’s bad that police don’t get punished for doing shit we all know is wrong, it’s not because I don’t understand what qualified immunity is.

Brick Meathook

Gratliff, I don’t challenge the limits of anyone’s knowledge, unless you get in my wheelhouse and state incorrect facts. The only thing I’m against are incorrect facts. If your facts are correct you can take them and form any opinion you want, But get your facts right and don’t learn them from Wikipedia or Twitter and then repeat them here because I will correct you.

You should at least learn a bit more about the District of Columbia before making subjective judgements (or repeating them), that’s all I’m saying. Other than that, I like your posts.

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Senor Weaselo

Apparently they tried to take down a statue of Andrew Jackson.

Which leads to the question, why is there a statue of Andrew Jackson?

Viva La Tabula Raza

And why do I have a billfold full of 20’s with his grill on them?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Second most genocide-ie president?

Viva La Tabula Raza

There’s a reason that Trump frequently has the AJ portrait in the background of his WH photo ops.

Brick Meathook

Because he was a President, a pretty good one, and made important contributions to the U.S. banking system.

Senor Weaselo

I feel like “important contributions” is a bit of an overstatement, considering the Panic of 1837 and how historians have taken Jackson to task for the Bank War exacerbating it.

Also the birth of the spoils system was the first step in the partisan politics we have today.

Brick Meathook

Somebody thought he did well, because that’s why he’s on the $20.

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Viva La Tabula Raza

Bubonic plague says “WTF?”

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Yeah, I’m thinking the owner is not a topnotch intellect.

Brick Meathook

I suggest there’s three possibilities here:

1) This guy is crazy

2) This guy is a committed performance artist of the highest order

3) He’s a prophet, and he’s right. He sees the simple truth so crystal clear in its diamond sharp simplicity yet all of us (you and me also) have been blinded by computers so that we ridicule him because we are unable to see the truth.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

My comment is duplicated.

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Viva La Tabula Raza

I’d buy that for a dollar!

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Dunstan

scotchy’s going to need the heavy artillery

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ballsofsteelandfury

That’s a bargain!

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Gratliff

Someone was maybe too fond of Gundam Wing
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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Okay, before you send Scotchy to murder me I am fairly well armed and have good vantage points from my house.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

It’d be fucking easy though, as I’m predictable as hell.

Gratliff

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Gratliff

Also, that is definitely a Relena Peacecraft pearl earring variant.
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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I am trusting you on this one.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Waiting on the lipstick to emerge from it’s sheath.

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Dunstan

I saw that “Bill Simmons” is trending on Twitter.

/dis gun be gud!

Dunstan

and if you had “questionable racial comments,” well, don’t expect a big payday because it was the odds-on favorite.

Apparently he dismissed complaints about a lack of diversity at The Ringer with “it’s a business, not open mike night.” This from a guy who gives every family member and Boston douchebag friend a podcast….

Don T

It’s a nice roasting, not unjust. Though no one has mentioned that he used to refer to Leslie Visser as “the harlot Leslie Visser” back in AOL. And his “I’m not a sellout, but…” column when leaving forESPN was cringey in its narcissism.

Dunstan

Narcissism has always been his stock in trade.

I liked him in those early years at ESPN’s Page 2. At the time, it was actually somewhat innovative for a sports writer to write like a fan (other than the hacky, yay-for-our-boys sense). But his shtick got old in a hurry. The Karate Kid is not that fucking good a film, you don’t need to reference it every column. It also didn’t help that he was a Boston guy just when Boston sports entered peak annoyingness.

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Don T

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Viva La Tabula Raza

Who’s Bill Simmons?

Unsurprised

Just another Boston asshole

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Viva La Tabula Raza

I’m getting older and am not up on all the latest hip things, but isn’t that there called “DP”? I am sure Balls can answer that.

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ballsofsteelandfury

Wait until you discover DVDA…

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Brick Meathook

HI-YO! I’m back from Ralphs!

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Dunstan

How is he doing? I haven’t seen him in a while. I’m a little worried he’s going to kick me out of his club for missing all the meetings.

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Brick Meathook

He asked about you.

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Viva La Tabula Raza

Good lord.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I’m thinking you don’t like the joke, but like Olivia.

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Viva La Tabula Raza

I don’t mind at all. It’s just, WTF and why?
—Oscar Meyer

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Mr. Ayo

No wonder AA Rod ghosted his family.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Plenty of room for his brother…….

Unsurprised

And the Packers O line

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Man, strawberry-basil ice cream is good. Or as Sarah Huckabee Sanders would put it, goOd.

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Dunstan

This week’s Dear Prudence column at Slate has a letter about that, and the comments section is EN FUEGO about it.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Sorry I was so late. Should I have added the “I found a funny” preamble?

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Unsurprised

Have they not heard about vacuums?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

You don’t need a helmet.

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“I’m arresting you for illegally downloading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica.”

“Wait, I can explain everything.”

Don T

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Viva La Tabula Raza

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

God damn, still funny.

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litre_cola

BIG PHARMA WONT LET US HAVE IT.

Sharkbait

Just give us the suicide booth already

Brick Meathook

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Viva La Tabula Raza

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Don T

Aw, love a spiteful note. I mean, a happy ending.

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Viva La Tabula Raza

If he steps on the pedal too hard/fast, he’s going to get a lesson about “having one a cat couldn’t scratch” in the kitchen.

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Senor Weaselo

Kitty!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

That made me laugh.

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Unsurprised

Very popular in Portland

Viva La Tabula Raza

Maine, Oregon, or England?

Unsurprised

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Gratliff

She switched brands after they took the Nestea plunge

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Viva La Tabula Raza

Dat’s fucking funny.

SonOfSpam

It’s so stupid and yet

Yep really fucking funny

Gratliff

Are we lionizing John Bolton now? Will someone from Florida go cough on that motherfucker?

Gratliff

The enemy of my enemy is still a war criminal cunt and deserves to spend what time he has left on this planet being haunted by the ghosts of Iraqi children

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I had seen a comment from a reporter that said something like ‘It is very apparent that all sides hate John Bolton.’

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

From below.

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Gratliff

I once considered saying something positive about John Bolton, but then my sponsor came over and convinced me not to hit the post button
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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD BOOOOOOOOOY!!!!!!!!

Unsurprised

Fuck no. No one with a brain cares.

Sharkbait

It’s fantastic that his book is being pirated now. I’m convinced he didn’t testify because he wanted the tell all book to publish. Fuck him

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ballsofsteelandfury

So, can someone that follows baseball tell me exactly what’s going on?

Sharkbait

It’s shooting itself in the dick? Usually that’s the NHL’s job.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

My understanding is….. I have no understanding.

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herodotus450

Oh crap, that should be “a Vitamin”

Sharkbait

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“Are you registered?”

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Viva La Tabula Raza

“Masks recommended but not required.”

Brick Meathook

I’m off to Ralphs to buy some stuff

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Viva La Tabula Raza

About 15 years ago, I was doing some environmental restoration work for NASA and had a trip out to JPL in Pasadena to look over some shit where they had basically poisoned several of the municipal water supply wells with rocket fuel since the 1950’s or so. As I waited in line at the gate to enter the facility, there was this old guy who practically looked homeless holding up signs about the whole planetary exploration thing, including the moon landings, being a scam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtWl8YTiGmk

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

They are much more prevalent than I had expected. The internet helps them.

Dunstan

And Buzz Aldrin will punch every last fucking one of them if he has to.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I wish there was some automatic Buzz Punch thing.

Gumbygirl

Get a brain, moran.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Stopping off to pick up a saber at the sword store?

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Don T

Effective for tears and other discharges
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Game Time Decision

Pretty sure that if you’re buying the ponch, that you ain’t going to any singles bar, as they are “too expensive “

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

“Singles bar.”

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DAMN! Missed it. These are resistant to stripper tears.

Viva La Tabula Raza
Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Thanks for the back-up.

ballsofsteelandfury

I LOVE MXC MONDAYS!!

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Love Happy Panty Guy.

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Viva La Tabula Raza

“Can’t downvote enough”
—Native Americans

Gumbygirl

You have died of dysentery.

herodotus450

Baseball’s back? What is this, 1947?

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herodotus450

Oh, one a them Rorschart pictures. Uhhh, I see… the chair of a woman on her period eating a poppyseed muffin?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

No it’s a “P”….punts.

Unsurprised

Does anyone here live in areas that are being subjected to unrelenting fireworks?

Senor Weaselo

I have intermittent fireworks.

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Senorita Weaselo is a lucky lady.

ballsofsteelandfury

Apparently that’s also a thing in West LA. Not sure why.

Don T

I’ll have to ask the ladies brrrrrrr

Senor Weaselo

Shout-out to the car non-ironically playing Rick Astley while I was walking back from the deli with a Twix bar and a Coke.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

At least you are eating healthy. All the groups in one meal.

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Don T

The pet!
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Viva La Tabula Raza

Martini ook.

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Viva La Tabula Raza

The map on the left kinda look like Garfield the Cat.

Senor Weaselo

Yeah, the outer boroughs are more of a Dunkin’ hotspot. The nearest Starbucks to me is, I think, right across the Queens-Nassau border. The nearest Dunkin’ is six blocks away, next to the McDonald’s.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

So in my state a bunch of public health officials/ workers are quitting and being forced out because of death threats, political pressure, harassment, etc. because masks are apparently now “submission muzzles.”

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Viva La Tabula Raza

Feel a little torn about upvoting that.

I wonder if, in the future, there will ever be an author equivalent to Edward Gibbon to write The History of the Decline and Fall of the American Empire?
More likely it’s going to end up being written by some priest like in A Canticle for Leibowitz, the Feral Kid from Road Warrior, or the idiot savant that wrote Riddley Walker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riddley_Walker

SonOfSpam

(very latte and nutmeg coated voice): MAYBE

Gratliff

/cheers from the fans
//approval from the sponsors
///silence from the dead Phillies

King Hippo

Ded Phillies could be a fine FF name, come Septiembre!

litre_cola

Dead Phillies is normally covered up by horse racin folk.

King Hippo

Trigger warning much?? – John E., Dove Valley, CO

King Hippo

I am looking forward to Opening Day 2022. Which is fine with this #BFIB, because Dexter Fowler’s boat anchor contract will be all used up.

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Senor Weaselo

As long as it holds off the “put a runner on 2nd at the beginning of extra innings.”

No. There isn’t an expletive for the word to come before “no” in that.

Viva La Tabula Raza

During the work day here at the house, I generally listen to the Sirius XM app channel 711, Tom Petty’s Buried Treasure. There’s over 250 different episodes, and they do repeat on occasion, but most of the repetition you might hear is due to his playing his favorites. I’ve been tracking the shows for over a month while I listen, and none of the shows have been repeated more than twice in that time. I like to listen because it makes me feel like he’s still out there.
Today he played a song that I didn’t even know existed. He does/did like to play a lot of obscure late 60s/70s Beach Boys, and this one really split my atoms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwajGL8nI00

SonOfSpam

Damn. That is unexpected from the Beach Boys. Dunno if I like it really, but I like that they’re stretching here.

Viva La Tabula Raza
Brick Meathook

The Beach Boys reinvented themselves several times over the years.

Unsurprised

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rockingdog
Brick Meathook

Big news!

Today I took an inventory of myself and my personal belongings, and decided to effect real change. So I rearranged one area of my kitchen cupboards, the sector dealing in canned goods, dry foodstuffs, and even the spices, those exotic delicacies from The Orient.

It forced me to face reality and ask some tough questions. How did these cans of diced tomatoes expire seven years ago yet go un-noticed? Why do I have three units of packaged breadcrumbs, one three-quarters full and two unopened? How often are breadcrumbs used around here? I’ll tell you how often: not very often. Why do I have a shaker of dried onions, still factory sealed, with no memory of ever having purchased it?

So I acquired some shelf organizers from Amazon, and they arrived ten hours later, Allah be praised. This offered me the chance to rebuild my life and my cupboard departments, making much more effective use of space in a “vertical integration” of various tins and sundry containers. A feeling of peace has descended upon my soul.

Next Weeks Episode: Why do I have forty coffee mugs?

Gumbygirl

The small things you can control make the big things you can’t a little less scary. I’ve been making my bed every day since this pandemic started, it makes me feel a little bit better.

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SonOfSpam

Great ending at Talladega, if you’re into that kind of thing.

Gratliff

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Redshirt

“Damn it! Why did I take off that hood ornament?”

Viva La Tabula Raza

Happy Birthday to the original Blues Brothers movie. While I never thought it was as funny as a lot of folks did, the musical numbers with all those soul and blues legends were fucking awesome.

Redshirt

Too bad they made only one movie.

SonOfSpam

Yes, thankfully there was never another.

Viva La Tabula Raza

No fucking shit.
—John Goodman

Redshirt

BREAKING NEWS: Current status of the 2020 Major League Baseball season:
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Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

I think this works better.

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

I stand corrected.

Redshirt

CURSE YOU, INTERNET PICTURE GODS! WHY HAVE THOU FORSAKEN ME?!?!

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

“So, Low Commander, how is The Last of us Part II going? As good as you were hoping or–”

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SonOfSpam

The complaints I’ve seen are all along the lines of “Too dark” and I don’t think that’s actually a thing.

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

If someone’s complaint is that it hits them too hard in the feels, I don’t know how they made it to 2020.

I’m not very far along yet but I’ve been loving every second of it, even what’s made me cry.

Every. Last. One of them.

Senor Weaselo

Senorita Weaselo is loving it too, and really getting into certain characters’ emotions.

I’m also dreading her sitting me down to play it, but I’ll ask if I can at least finish stumbling my way shooting through the first one, uh, first (pre-covid quarantine, when I then didn’t see her for two months, I was in Pittsburgh with the hunters).

Sharkbait

Stupid PS3 exclusives…

herodotus450

Please list up to five (5) Tier 1 Contacts (e.g. wife, girlfriend, etc)

Antionio Cromartie: “Shit.”

Redshirt

Lawrence Taylor: “Crack.”

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

Tom Brady: “What if you kiss your kids on the mouth?”

SonOfSpam

“Yeah! And other stuff.” – J. Sandusky

Game Time Decision

I’m gonna need another page and some help with all the names
-Antonio

Brick Meathook

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King Hippo

This is just so goddamned beautiful. Brick, you are a fine Imaginary Friend, and a true national treasUre.

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Don T

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SonOfSpam

Google translates as “That is a pinga dress” so I’m gonna assume pinga means dick or Ricardo.

WCS

I need to get drunk.
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