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Who's That What? Wednesday 25th April

noreply@blogger.com (David Mumford) — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:16:00 +0000

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Welcome Back Everyone!

Updating Regularly Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays, For Now.

Sorry for the long pause guys: these things happen.
I got a job, I ran a LRP event, I got the Flu.
If I see this sort of thing happening again, I'll try and notify you.
Kiss Kiss.

Monday's will be announced on Friday. Woo.

- David

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So here's Today's:
Difficulty: 4 Out Of 5

Musical Tiny Femme.

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Who's That What? Monday 23rd April

noreply@blogger.com (David Mumford) — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:40:00 +0000

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Wednesday's was Nappa, Saiyan Elite, Godless Killing Machine, Patty-Cake Champion and Mindless Buffoon from Dragonball Z.

Well Done to Tim, who tells me that Nappa looks stupid with hair.

- David

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So here's Today's:
Difficulty: 3 Out Of 5

Comic Reluctant Hero. In Snow.

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Who's That What? Friday 20th April

noreply@blogger.com (David Mumford) — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:21:00 +0000

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It's my Birthday tomorrow! Wahey!

Wednesday's was SheGo, assassin, nemesis, and sometimes substitute-teacher of Kim Possible.

Well Done to WORLD WTW CHAMPION ED, who tells me that searching for "Kim Possible Cosplay" on Google turns you into Goatboy.

Or as he typed, "Goatbot".

- David

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So here's Today's:
Difficulty: 4 Out Of 5

Anime Evil Henchman Murder Machine

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Who's That What? Wednesday 18th April

noreply@blogger.com (David Mumford) — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:16:00 +0000

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Welcome Back Everyone!

Updating Regularly Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays, For Now.

Sorry for the long pause guys: these things happen.
I got a job, I ran a LRP event, I got the Flu.
If I see this sort of thing happening again, I'll try and notify you.
Kiss Kiss.

Monday's was Guybrush Threepwood, wannabe Pirate (and partially trained Flooring Inspector) and his nemesis Ghost Pirate LeChuck. From the excellent Lucasarts Monkey Island games.
Well Done to Christi, who tells me that the famous Insult Sword-Fighting Quips from the first game ("How appropiate. You fight like a Cow."), was written by Orson Scott Card. Author of Ender's Game. And well-known Homophobe. YEAH!

- David

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So here's Today's:
Difficulty: 3 Out Of 5

Cartoon Super-Powered Evil Agent Lady

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Who's That What? Monday 16th April

noreply@blogger.com (David Mumford) — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 22:58:00 +0000

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Welcome Back Everyone!

Updating Regularly Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays, For Now.

Sorry for the long pause guys: these things happen.
I got a job, I ran a LRP event, I got the Flu.
If I see this sort of thing happening again, I'll try and notify you.
Kiss Kiss.

Friday's was Hammer Horror's Dracula, as portrayed by Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee. Hammer's Dracula is ofcourse famous for barely talking, killing indiscriminately, and revealing young ladies' breasts through his powers of clothes-tearing. Lee is famous for being a pimp.
Well Done to Kalyn, who tells me that Lee not only voiced The Last Unicorn's King Haggard in English, but also in German. Pimp.

- David

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So here's Today's:
Difficulty: 3 Out Of 5

Videogame Wannabe Pirate & Dread Ghost Pirate

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noreply@blogger.com (David Mumford) — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:22:00 +0000

Ok. This, being the 200th post on this blog, was originally going to be something light-hearted & special. But something has happened that has upset the world of much of this blog's audience. I'm not brilliant with emotional words, but here's what's flowing through me right now.

Today we lost someone very special, who was a tempering influence and sometimes an ecstatic influence on many of us. A lot of us were close to her, and so many of us are hurt by events of chance that can only be called tragic.

I try not to make this selfishly about me, but that's the only perspective I have; mine. We were close, but I was also stupid. So I will say that I am torn up and confused, unable to quite piece together what has happened with events that were going to happen in a week's time, and what I'd been planning to say for weeks. That words and emotions I had rehearsed and thought about constantly just have no place to go anymore, and are collapsing in on themselves. There are things I would have wished to say, to do, to just clarify, but I can't. And me and the rest of the world are worse off.

I am dealing with this better than I thought I would, but am still trying to wrap my head around, utterly disbelieveing. I'm here for everyone else who has been hurt by this, because I know I needed someone, and I luckily had friends both close and afar who had me. And I know I'm not done hurting. But this isn't about ME. This is about all of us who have had something torn away some biological fluke that enrages me just thinking about it.

A year ago I suffered a sudden, sometimes terminal attack from my own body, and only spent days recuperating barely able to act or think. To think that this has taken someone we cared for and will now never see again doesn't make me thankful, but instead just makes me hate chance for taking someone so special away but sparing me. And then I realize I'm just being selfish again and want to scream and the hollowness aches more. And I know others are feeling this way. So my heart and my feelings go to everyone affected: this was unfair and terrible, and I'm so sorry there's nothing we can do to fix this but keep going.

And I understand the process of not naming her, which I'm being careful to do even now, due to family and various other factors. But the hysteria and pain this anonymous death has caused to people out of the loop, let alone people who barely, if not never knew her, has only gone on to make it worse to deal with, and to prove that someone so special could cause such grief by simply not being here any more.

So here's her favourite picture of mine, Toby from Halo Jones. Whatever happens to the original now, I personally know the emotions this picture conjured up in her and me, and that's what matters.

I'm so sorry you're gone. I, and everyone else, feel hollow without you.
- David

Who's That What? Friday 13th April

noreply@blogger.com (David Mumford) — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 23:57:00 +0000

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Welcome Back Everyone!

Updating Regularly Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays, For Now.

Sorry for the long pause guys: these things happen.
I got a job, I ran a LRP event, I got the Flu.
If I see this sort of thing happening again, I'll try and notify you.
Kiss Kiss.

Friday's was Marvelman / Miracleman, a veritable connundrum of red tape, law suits, ownership, Todd McFarlane, charities & Neil Gaiman's Blog, but most importantly an 80's Alan Moore revival of a 50's British rip-off of superhero Captain Marvel. And it was Glorious.
Monday 's was The Gamesmaster, AKA Sir Patrick Moore's floating disembodied head viewed through a fish-eye lens, giving Sega Mega Drive cheats to spotty oiks.
Well Done to Ed, who solely assaulted both of these obscurities with his Hammer Of Trivia.

Wednesday's was Captain Planet, be-mulleted Guardian of Planet Earth's Eco-System, and pastel-coloured Ziggy Stardust lookalike.
Well done to Leigh, who simply states "FUCK YEAH LEVAR BURTON!"

- David

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So here's Today's:
Difficulty: 2 Out Of 5

British Horror Icon

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Who's That What? Wednesday 11th April

noreply@blogger.com (David Mumford) — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:09:00 +0000

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Welcome Back Everyone!

Updating Regularly Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays, For Now.

Sorry for the long pause guys: these things happen.
I got a job, I ran a LRP event, I got the Flu.
If I see this sort of thing happening again, I'll try and notify you.
Kiss Kiss.

Friday's and Monday 's are still open! STILL. Go!

Monday's was Ramona Flowers, Amazon.Ca delivery clerk and object of nerdy slacker affections. From Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World.
Well done to Christi, who tells me her one claim to fame is being a Zombie outside the pub in Edgar Wright's other other film, Shaun Of The Dead. And not a zombie in the graveyard stage in the Scott Pilgrim beat-'em-up. Because that would involve pixels.

- David

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So here's Today's:
Difficulty: 2 Out Of 5

TV Cartoon "Hero"

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Who's That What? Monday 9th April

noreply@blogger.com (David Mumford) — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:19:00 +0000

Comic/Movie Heroine / Glorified 1UP

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Who's That What? Monday 27th February

noreply@blogger.com (David Mumford) — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:58:00 +0000

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Hello Everyone!

Updating Regularly Monday & Friday, For Now.
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Sorry for no longer replying to every email - work leaves me knackered.
Will do my best.

Am attempting to turn Wednesdays back into a standard WTW day, with occasional BBC Scifi stuff scattered throughout regardless of day.

Friday's is still open! Go!

- David

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So here's Today's:
Difficulty: 3 Out Of 5

God of Electronic Trickery

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Who's That What? Friday 24th February

noreply@blogger.com (David Mumford) — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:54:00 +0000

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Monday's was Kim Jong Il, Dictator, Puppet, Swell Guy & Space Cockroach from Team America: World Police.
Well done to John, who says that Kim Jong's PR department claims he scored thirteen holes-in-one in his first game of Golf. Truth.
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So here's Today's:
Difficulty: 4 Out Of 5

British Superhero / Copyright Nightmare

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Belated Doctor Who's That What? Wednesday 22nd February

noreply@blogger.com (David Mumford) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:47:00 +0000

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Hello Everyone!

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Wednesday's, for now, in an attempt to do something different, will be Doctor Who's That What? Focussing on guessing / suggesting characters from The BBC's Old Man In A Box series, and various tentatively linked other shows (Hitch-Hiker's Guide, Blake's 7, Casanova... you get it).

Also, apologies for quality of scans. I'm on a new laptop, with none of my old kit. Will try and remedy this...

Last Week's was The Mighty Jagrafess & The Editor, controllers of future multi-mass-media Satellite Five. They like the cold. AND LOOK, LOOK IT'S SIMON PEGG!
Well done to Ed, who is both amused and confused by teh smae episode's head-opening interface computer bobbins.

- David

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So here's Today's:
Difficulty: 2 Out Of 5

British Soldier

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Who's That What? Monday 20th February

noreply@blogger.com (David Mumford) — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:45:00 +0000

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Hello Everyone!

Updating Regularly Monday & Friday, For Now.
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Sorry for no longer replying to every email - work leaves me knackered.
Will do my best.

Am attempting to turn Wednesdays back into a standard WTW day, with occasional BBC Scifi stuff scattered throughout regardless of day.

Friday's was Magrat Garlick, Pratchett's drippy Witch and would-be Queen of Lancre from the Discworld books.
Well Done To Sal, who sent me a photo of herself dressed as Magrat from a stageplay. RELEVANCE!

- David

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So here's Today's:
Difficulty: 2 Out Of 5

Marionette Dictator

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Who's That What? Friday 17th February

noreply@blogger.com (David Mumford) — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:25:00 +0000

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Hello Everyone!

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Monday's was the human-host of Chaos Daemon Cherubael, attendant & weapon of Inquisitor Eisenhorn in Dan Abnett's Warhammer 40, 000 Eisenhorn novels.
Well done to Eddy, who listed Cherubael's crimes (I'm not reprinting them here, but he's a daemon) and then claimed he was still a pretty nice guy. Truth.
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So here's Today's:
Difficulty: 4 Out Of 5

Fantasy-Novel Maiden Archetype

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Doctor Who's That What? Wednesday 15th February

noreply@blogger.com (David Mumford) — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:06:00 +0000

Last Week's was Mr. John Steed and Ms. Emma Peel, the Avengers, British Weirdness-Investigation-Agents. And enemies of Peter Wyngarde.
Well done to Joe, who points out that was The Avengers was filmed in colour before colour broadcast was properly available. BEFORE. IT'S. TIME.

- David

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So here's Today's:
Difficulty: 3 Out Of 5

The Media

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Who's That What? Monday 13th February

noreply@blogger.com (David Mumford) — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:14:00 +0000

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Hello Everyone!

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Sorry for no longer replying to every email - work leaves me knackered.
Will do my best.
Friday's was Captain Carrot Ironfounderson, Pratchett's super-heroic Ankh Morpork City-Watchman from the Discworld books. His sword is very sharp.
Well Done To Ellie, who told me all about the other Captain Carrot. And rediscovered her childhood memories of his Zoo Crew. YEAH! WIKI!

- David

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So here's Today's:
Difficulty: 4 Out Of 5

Daemonhost

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Who's That What? Friday 10th February

noreply@blogger.com (David Mumford) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:14:00 +0000

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Monday's was Howling Jimmy Jefferson, the Spirit of Jazz, from the very silly Mighty Boosh.
Well done to Olwen, who claims Vince Noir used to be her favourite character until SOMEONE WHO WASN'T ME I SWEAR press-ganged her into loving Bob Fossil. I hate Whites.
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So here's Today's:
Difficulty: 2 Out Of 5

Fantasy Policeman Hero

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Not Doctor Who's That What? Wednesday 8th February

noreply@blogger.com (David Mumford) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:37:00 +0000

Last Week's was The Meddler aka The Monk, an early adversary of The Doctor. And anachronistic trickster.
Well done to Jennifer, who not only points out that real-world-chronologically, he is the first non-Doctor (and kinda non-Susan) Time Lord we meet, but also that he's great. True fact.

- David

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So here's Today's:
Difficulty: 3 Out Of 5

British Weirdness Agents

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Who's That What? Monday 6th February

noreply@blogger.com (David Mumford) — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:54:00 +0000

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Hello Everyone!

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Friday's was Doug Ramsey aka Cypher, teenage mutant, linguist and martyr from Marvel's X-Men. Nowadays Dan Abnett is writing him. I love this guy.
Well Done To Ed, who always liked the character but knew he was doomed to die. His personal canon incolves Cypher going back in time & fighting crime with Ada Lovelace.

- David

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So here's Today's:
Difficulty: 4 Out Of 5

Musical Manifestation

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Who's That What? Friday 3rd February

noreply@blogger.com (David Mumford) — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:52:00 +0000

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Hello Everyone!

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Monday's was child genius Dexter & his meddling, oblivious sister Dee-Dee, from my favourite Cartoon Network show, Dexter's Lab.
Well done to Ellie, who wrote me Dexter / WhoThatWhat Fic. YAY!
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So here's Today's:
Difficulty: 5 Out Of 5

Comic Mutant Martyr

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Doctor Who's That What? Wednesday 1st February

noreply@blogger.com (David Mumford) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:05:00 +0000

Last Week's was a Tripod, from the BBC's mid 80's scifi-series. Or as Ed calls is, a backpacking guide to Southern France
Well done to Si, who was so scared of the Tripods as a kid that he had to go sofa-hiding.
In his own words "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA".

- David

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So here's Today's:
Difficulty: 3 Out Of 5

"Original" Rebel Time Lord

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Who's That What? Monday 30th January

noreply@blogger.com (David Mumford) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:33:00 +0000

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Friday's was Supernatural's Sam & Dean Winchester, with their 67 Chevrolet Impala. The fandom has certain opinions.
Well Done To Rebecca, who informs me that the reason no Zep' tunes have been used in the series is because of the ungodly ammount CSI has paid to have "exclusive rights". Boo.

- David

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So here's Today's:
Difficulty: 2 Out Of 5

Cartoon Siblings

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Who's That What? Friday 27th January

noreply@blogger.com (David Mumford) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:39:00 +0000

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Hello Everyone!

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Apologies for no Wednesday: I was super sleepy & ill & slept through the entire day. Boo.

Monday's was fugitive piano Oscar, voiced by Dudley Moore of all people, from kind-of-pretty-good BBC cartoon Oscar's Orchestra.

Well Done to Heather, who points out that the series premise, the banning of music, actually happened once - during the Cultural Revolution of China.

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So here's Today's:
Difficulty: 3 Out Of 5

TV Brothers & Car

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Not Doctor Who's That What? Wednesday 25th January

noreply@blogger.com (David Mumford) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:50:00 +0000

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Hello Everyone!

Updating Regularly Monday & Friday, For Now.
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Sorry for the wait guys. Last week I got all ill & bad sleepy and missed 90% of Wednesday.

Wednesday's, for now, in an attempt to do something different, will be Doctor Who's That What? Focussing on guessing / suggesting characters from The BBC's Old Man In A Box series, and various tentatively linked other shows (Hitch-Hiker's Guide, Blake's 7, Casanova... you get it).

Also, apologies for quality of scans. I'm on a new laptop, with none of my old kit. Will try and remedy this...

Last, Last Week's was Rebel Timelord, The Corsair, gender-jumping tattoo-wearing pet-loving arm-donor. Well, I say donate.
Well done to Jon, who informs me that the Corsair was a VERY BAAAAAAAAAAD GIRL.

- David

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So here's Today's:
Difficulty: 3 Out Of 5

Not-Who BBC War Machine

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Who's That What? Monday 23rd January

noreply@blogger.com (David Mumford) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:53:00 +0000

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Hello Everyone!

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Monday's was a Friendship Is Magic redesign of My Little Ponies Slugger & Baby Buttons.
You people asked for this.
Well Done to Dave, who not only research-identified the ponies, but also tells me that every pony on this page is stoned.

Friday's was Captain Bucky O'Hare. He may or may not stomp toads.
Well Done To Olwen, who notes how many cartoon sinvolving rabbits break innocence in twain over their knees.

- David

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So here's Today's:
Difficulty: 4 Out Of 5

Cartoon Instrument

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