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The team who discovered why urine's yellow deserve a Peelitzer Prize.
ReplyDeleteTom is so right.
ReplyDeleteOf course it's yellow, it's full of pee.
ReplyDeleteBack in The Day, the Secret Service referred to Dan Quayle as the Q-ster.
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