Imagine trying to address critical issues when there's a senile goblin fart at the table who'll just get drowsy and shit his pants if you don't try to keep him engaged every moment using the grossest means of flattery.
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Or that 80's TZ episode with Robert Klein and Annie Potts, about a salesman struggling with new vernacular.
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Chain link does look good on them, though.
Or George Carlin's observation that any person has the power to make a statement that no one else in the annals of human history has uttered previously, e.g.:
"Please saw my legs off." "Hand me that piano."
"Dracula vegan leather purse" is a rather randomized phrase, don't you think? It's like something from an old Steve Martin routine about using only nonsense speech around toddlers so they'd grow up talking weird.
"Fox to buy streaming pioneer Roku in a $22 billion deal"
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"Now there's something you don't see every day, Chauncey."
"What's that, Edgar?"
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