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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

"...you’re up the creek and you know the creek I mean."

The Maestro was going so good up to this point. Of course BLOTUS would say shit's creek.

Anyway, relevant and mandatory:

https://whowhatwhy.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image1-copy-11.jpg

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Thanks for that, also for WhoWhatWhy, which is new to me.

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He wouldn't be able to get through "extreme unction" neither.

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extreme unction what's your function

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

"It’s like cursive. Which I think is a shame."

Nobel-Prize material right there.

As gods are my witnesses, when I first heard the term Roman Catholic I envisioned gangs of 'em, wandering the countryside, pillaging, unctioning...whatever...

Roamin' anyway...

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

Hey, watch your mouth about Catholics, or I'll summon St. Francis de Sales, the patron saint of shitposters, to come open a can of whoop on your ass.

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

A proud-ish occasional occupant of the City of St Francis (dunno if he was in sales or not) I gotta beg off.

Do I get a loafa bread anyway? Hold the fish.

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

My name saint, St. Clare, is the patron saint of television. I shit you not.

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

So, muscling aside Philo T. Farnsworth then? Tough gang, those Catholics.

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I think he got cheated on the royalties, no dough for Philo.

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St Philo, patron saint of Greek pastry.

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Doh!

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

My favorite is St. Jesus Malverde, patron saint of drug dealers. Truly, there is a saint for every occasion to fulfill all our saintly needs.

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As a Lutheran I had no idea Saints-R-Us was so comprehensive.

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

I'm guessing he wasn't one of the original ones.

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

Dunno 'bout that, but I was taught that St Paul was the dude who covered thieves and beggars.

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Apr 1·edited Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

Adding here that 'taught' up there is a term too far. Maybe 'it was suggested that', or 'I dunno, man – let's go with', or 'who knows?'

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

He was more of a tribute saint, he covered the hits of the originals.

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All the best saints are like deep album cuts.

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Seems like they pile new duties onto existing saints.

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A new saint! It's so hard to get them certified these days. Did her miracle involve Amos and Andy? The Little Rascals?

(In all seriousness I bet they just added TV to her docket.)

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Apr 1·edited Apr 1

I bet you're right, there's a patron saint of the internet, and he lived from 560-636AD, when not a lot of internettin' was goin' on. I feel sorry for these saints that just keep getting new things to patronize piled on, and whose job is it to explain to a guy alive in 600AD what the internet even is? If Ted Stevens wasn't burning in Hell, he could do the job: "Well, Isidore, it's like a set of tubes..."

https://catholicism.org/patron-saint-for-the-internet-isidore-of-seville.html

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Apr 1·edited Apr 1

Isidore looking down: SMH

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Isidore of Seville! Couldn't he be patron saint of Cadillacs?

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This is so clever — Isidore's Etymologies was a book about everything, but also mostly filled with erroneous info. So it really tracks.

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Did it have One Weird Trick for Rock-Hard Abs?

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Yep. She's been around.

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Apr 1·edited Apr 1

Because she enabled people to see visions from a distance and therefore made them Clare-voyant.

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Staaahp, lol.

It's likely many of the saints were either chewing on plants with a psychedelic effect or had untreated mental health issues. From a secular viewpoint, anyway.

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Or vapors...?

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OOF.

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Name saints are a thing?

Well then, St Bernard*! Per Dizzy, St Bernards' Waltz is the hippest in all creation. Because St Bernard's Waltz (the 'Bernard's' is pronounced BERN-ard's with a hard Bern) goes like this: "DUH duh duh, DUH duh duh, Duh – DUH DUH!"

*not my actual name, but I imagine you can see that it's close enough for non-governmental (indeed, legally untaxable) work.

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So there’s actually a Scottish-and-English sequence dance for St. Bernard’s Waltz” - chassez, chassez, chassez, stamp stamp, repeat in other direction, do a little more, waltz around.. I’m considering teaching it at my choreographed couple dance session at the New England Folk festival later this month.

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That kinda tracks.

Here's Dizzy, with George Matthews and a squirrel, explaining the world and other things, with brief musical interlude:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCFWzsAPEZ4

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

Mostly in the Middle East.

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

This one is a special gift to those of us raised Catholic. It’s hard to pick a favorite out of so many howlers, but I don’t think anything can top “you don’t even have to bless the oil, because it’s already consummated by the priests at the factory.” ROTFLMAO.

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Apr 1·edited Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

The Viacom.

Jesus, Roy.

Jesus.

This was funny as hell. (though I don't guess we'll think hell is all that funny if all that mumbo-jumbo turns out to be true.

It's a chance we all take.)

I was on a business trip 25 years ago or so- I'd flown into Atlanta and they lost my luggage and I needed to pick up some dress shirts for a client meeting so I stopped by the Mall of the South. I ran in picked up a couple polo shirts in approximately the proper color. I went back out to my car and realized I locked the keys in it. I called for a locksmith who said it was going to be 3 hours. I went back into the mall Sat down the food court and had lunch.

At a table behind me we're a bunch of high school kids. They were kind of noisy as kids will be. At one point one of the guys says " You know what they say about Catholic girls!" And somebody else said " Yeah, same thing they say about your Mom. "

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

2 marks!

Please distribute to the mallkids next time you see them. But be sure you take along some unction in case they've wasted alla theirs already (which, given their histories, seems possible).

Have no compunction about the unction...

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

So their teenage penises will make it to heaven, at least.

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

I immediately attempted to register "Teenage Penises" on the approved list of prospective band names, but found it was already accounted for in the pantheon of gay sex sites, so figured 'eh, maybe not...'

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Penises?

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Are you asking me?

"Cause if so, pass.

Hard pass.

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I bet there's fan fiction bearing that title

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

"Conjunction Unction, what's your function?/Working on crazies and treasonous clauses. . ."

(I know this mall--used to call it the Breeder's Mall because every third person there was pushing a stroller.)

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Apr 1·edited Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

Yoicks! Anything relatable to the "Breeders Cup"?

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"I don't guess we'll think hell is all that funny if all that mumbo-jumbo turns out to be true." reminds me of that Steve Martin line: "they told me in college this was bullshit!"

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

In that event we will all have egg on our faces, and fried egg at that.

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

That 'fried' is what makes it cherce.

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

Here's the way I look at it: when a guy ghosts you for two thousand years not only is he not that into you, it's extremely probable he was never who he said he was in the first place, lol.

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He ghosted you, yeah, but at least it was a holy ghosting.

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Rimshot, please!

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Now that you are wholly ghosted, whatcha doin fer dinner tonight?

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I see what you did there.

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I'll buy. You payin'?

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After he promised to return within his followers' lifetime.

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Seemed as though a lot of people in every generation since believed the Jesus character was referring to their particular lifetimes. Funny how that seems to have gone the ways of gambling being a sin. The’ve pretty much gone full Grand Inquisitor nowadays. If Jesus came back the’d lynch him.

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

“The Viacom” was my first audible laugh of the week…

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

Can indulgences be that far behind? He already sold pardons.

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

[insert a reply too obvious]

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Next time I reread Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Tale, the Pardoner is going to be a braying orange circus peanut with cotton candy hair.

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Should get you a ™. Just a few days ago, I was trying to remember who came up with such perfect descriptors.

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*blushing*

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

I'm confused by the scapular math. How does eternity minus 500 days equal anything less than eternity? Or do you get a deferment?

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

Steve? Steve?

Where's a maths person when you need 'em?

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In school they told us that was for purgatory. I'm assuming Tubby's comprehension doesn't stretch that far.

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Personally I don’t recall being taught the 500 days bit, but my Catholic grade school wasn’t big on details. I just remember it as the “get out of Hell free!” necklace. Per the tiny print on it, all I had to do was die wearing it and I win eternal life! Now, even to what must have been around 8-10 year old me this seemed a bit iffy, like, does this mean I can kill someone but avoid the consequences if I die with my magic necklace on? My religion teachers assured me this was not the case, to which I replied, well, then what’s the point? Usually they just sighed and told me to go sit down and shut up.

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"Would that then be a sin then, Fadda?" George Carlin was a genius.

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Just 25 cents short...

HT Father Guido

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Pffft. What kind of wimpy Catholic online store doesn’t sell the Discipline? And not a single cilise in the apparel section. Hmmph.

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Apr 1·edited Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

At the bottom of the page showing the unction kit is a heading for Affordable Chausables. That appeals to me: instead of my hit or miss attempts with imperfectly magisterial caftans, I could waft about the house in my Affordable Chausable, confidently excommunicating belligerant family members.

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

„…already consummated by the priests at the factory“. To coin a phrase, Jeebus. XD

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Another word for "Holy Oil" is "Lube."

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

An obvious next step for a career grifter, the selling of indulgences being the ultimate loophole.

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

91 Indictments > 95 Theses

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Apr 1·edited Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

If he gets re-elected he'll be sellin' made-up shit like the Dukedom of Western Nevada. Do you want to be Count of Long Island? Call now!

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

Yep, it's all pretty much Performance Art at this point.

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

It's all for people who have a 14th-Century peasant's understanding of government. Uh, there's a King, see, and he does... stuff, and the Lord up at the castle who owns everything I don't know why, stop asking stupid questions, look Dennis, some lovely filth down here!

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I personally wouldn't mind being the Duchess of Duchess County, because it sounds so ridiculous. I'd have to move upstate, though. Otherwise, when the Duchess is away the peons will play.

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Apr 1·edited Apr 1

Also, Sir Kid Rock. Lord Kanye, etc.

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At least Duke, Count, Earl and The Pres are already accounted for.

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

If only abortions were as simple as the DJT unction!

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

Somewhere in the vast fields of heavens reserved for the sternly righteous yet deeply flawed, Martin Luther struts about, waving this column and bragging to all his friends, "Told ya!"

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

Protestantism, leading as it did to Evangelical Christianity, has a LOT to answer for.

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It's the religion of capitalism

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Apr 1·edited Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

True, although capitalism is tired of just owning a religion, and is deciding it wants to BE the religion.

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I think we've indulged them enough already.

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(My kidnapped-from-Africa-and-forcibly-converted ancestors nod in agreement.)

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

For example, Luther said some really atrocious antisemitic stuff in his later life (he was a medieval German after all) yet he also thought the book of Revelation didn’t belong in the Bible. What I’m saying is Protestantism is a land of contrasts.

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A rich tapestry, in fact.

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Hearted, but you spelled travesty incorrectly

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

Pitch perfect, and very funny.

I misread “extreme unction” as “extreme unicorn,” which works nicely as well for paragraphs ten plus.

In fact I recovered at once, but Don will often double down; finding himself in my pickle, improvisation might lead him to insist that yes, it’s extreme unicorn, or relax, I was joking about Biden. Fake news, amen.

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

"Donnie, get outta my pickle!"

is the new

"Get thee behind me, satan"

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

Don't hang around, because two's a crowd

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

"Extreme, extreme... unc... extreme uncation, that's for the kids, extreme, they like the extreme things, the extreme uncle that we will bring them..."

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

"The Uncle, the Uncle, the Man From UNCLE, on streaming video, we all love the streaming, don't we folks?"

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

I'd like extremely to unct him. Only I'd request he be sent in the opposite direction. 😅

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

Thanks for this, as a former Catholic, I feel my creepy co-religionists don't get enough of the blame, which mostly gets deflected to the Evangelicals. And sure, it's the Evangelicals you send in when you want to beat up some cops and hang the Vice President, but it's the Catholics doin' all the important court decisions.

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

They're the ones we have to "thank" for the term "gender ideology".

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

LOL, yeah. Terrible how some people are all fixated on gender to the point they've got a whole "ideology" about it. Next thing you know they'll be saying only men can do certain jobs, the ideologues.

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

[slaps hands over ears] MO-om! They're sayin' female stuff agin!

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

This weekend was end of month Criterion Channel Death March (as I've seen schedule change time described on Reddit). So I watched The Devils before it left. Just a reminder that Catholics have the most experience at marrying Church and State.

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The Ken Russell batch was excellent. But boo to no director's cut on The Devils!

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

There was an excellent tweet that I can’t find anymore that pointed out the difference between normal Catholics and conservative/convert Catholics that went something like this:

“Every normal cradle Catholic is like ‘I think we’re supposed to feed the poor’ and every convert/conservative one is like 'The High Holy Cardinal of the Byzantine explained in his masterwork Summa Fides why women shouldn’t have driver’s licenses.'”

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

Raised-Catholic says, "Wait, you actually READ that shit? Why do you think they put it in LATIN?"

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

I'm still stuck tryna figure out what the vest meant.

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God bless Jesus! Why didn't I think of that?

Also "your groundskeeper." This is brill.

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

Only when Jesus sneezes.

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Jesus sneezes! Why didn't I think of that?

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

Call in Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor!

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Time to stop suffering and write that symphony!

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

Oh Cosmo!

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Apr 1Liked by Roy Edroso

I’m waiting for the Trump Alb, with the words “Oh, Come, All Ye Faithful” in fake embroidery.

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I hope they aren't joyful and triumphant

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