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false advertisement

By delapruch

Thu, 18 Aug 2011
  • 500 reads
 

a guy turned to me today &
held out a pack of Smarties (c).

he said that he’d been eating them for a while,
and he hadn’t gotten a bit smarter.

then he paused before saying
“it’s a lie.”

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