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Old 7th November 2006   #31
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You mean HH
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Someone mentioned one I hadn't heard before, now my new favorite:

Squishy bits.

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Blame Borat.

Hi 5, very good!
Awesome. I was thinking the same thing.
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Someone mentioned one I hadn't heard before, now my new favorite:

Squishy bits.

jibblies

a lady can't object to a giving a free screening when you call em jibblies. Its so damn harmless...
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Some of my rapper clients call headphones.....earphones........but think about , they rest on yer head but are only useful covering yer ears......
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Hi 5, very good!

Ina my country we call them "clams" ... because they are clams.

After the wh0res use them for the washing of the vajine, we tie a string to them and talk to our neighbors. Is a very nice.


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what people call a headphone "cans"?
Groovy people...
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I didn't realise there was anything else to call them....

maybe THAT'S why I get those looks when I say it.
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I think there are too many cans'...........

Italians
Mexicans
Porto Ricans
Canadians
Americans
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