“Mr. Pendanski: D-I-G. What does that spell?
Zero: [takes shovel and whacks Mr. Pendanski across the face with it] DIG.”
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“Magnet: Hey. Maybe it’ll rain for 40 days and 40 nights, like it did in The Bible. Armpit:…”
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