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  1. Headcrunch says:
    September 22, 2009 at 10:04 am

    I concur!

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  2. Oystein R says:
    July 29, 2015 at 12:09 pm

    Haha, the worst publication ever, the only thing unorthodox about this is probably what they had to do to get it published in the first place!

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