WGS84

Genuflect: Kneeling on a pew in worship.

Cicadian rhythm: Your body's natural 24 hour clock. Your wake-sleep cycle.

Proletariat: The workers of society/the working class.

Solipsism: Believing that only your mind or your views exist or are valid

"It's equal rights. I have the right to see fine in every colour" - (Mary Jackson, Hidden Figures).

"If you don't like how a sausage is made, eat it with your eyes closed" (John Shaft II).

"I'm an equal opportunities ass whooper" (John Shaft II).

"Apologising does not always mean you’re wrong and the other person is right. It just means you value your relationship more than your ego" 

- (Mike Matthews)

• "And so he told me his secret formula for happiness. Part one of the two-part plan was that I should just get on with ordinary life, living it day by day, like anyone else.

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• But then came part two of Dad's plan. He told me to live every day again almost exactly the same. The first time with all the tensions and worries that stop us noticing how sweet the world can be, but the second time noticing

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• And in the end I think I've learned the final lesson from my travels in time; and I've even gone one step further than my father did. The truth is I now don't travel back at all, not even for the day. I just try to live every day as if I've deliberately come back to this one day, to enjoy it, as if it was the full final day of my extraordinary, ordinary life."

- (Tim Lake, About Time)

Corinthians 13:7 

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Why go out for hamburger when you have steak at home? (Paul Newman)

The world is perfect. Appreciate the details. (Dean, The Dead Don't Die)

Contentment is the greatest wealth above all.

A monks true duty is to become a beacon of hope for others especially those who have made mistakes and have nowhere to turn.

The only thing that does not change in this world is change itself.

- (Monk Anek, Episode 'Buddha Data' from Tomorrow + I)

It wasn't a judgement. It was a comment of sincere praise.

(Yo-han, The Fiery Priest, S1:E5)

If the celestial bodies are the great universe, the world humans live in is the small universe. Each human is a star and I'm studying the stars everyday, one by one, while scanning barcodes.

(Yo-han, The Fiery Priest, S1:E7)

The bigger the star, the sooner it burns out. You're going to burn strong and long, just like a small star.

(Yo-han, The Fiery Priest, S1:E8)

A tiger that protects the King.

(Song-sak, The Fiery Priest, S1:E13)

With age, people should gain dignity, not visceral fat.

(Kim Hae-il/Father Michael, S1:E14)

You should think carefully, since you only have one canvas (when Prosecutor Park wondered if she should get a tattoo).

(Kim Hae-il/Father Michael, S1:E14)

I was just feeling the gravity.

(Yo-han, The Fiery Priest, S1:E20)

Kindness should never be against the rules.

(Father Brown, S12:E7)

My nerves are turned on. 

I hear them like musical instruments. 

Where there was silence the drums, the strings are incurably playing. 

You did this.
Pure genius at work. 

Darling, the composer has stepped into fire.

(Anne Sexton)

Watch out for love
(unless it is true,
and every part of you says yes including the toes)

(Anne Sexton)

Have nothing in your room that you do not believe to be beautiful or know to be useful.

(William Morris)

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WGS85

Are you sure you aren’t applying 21st century standards to a patriarchal value system that was normal then but no longer informs the ethos of our society?

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Gender egalitarian society.

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A new type of thinking is essential if mankind

is to survive and move to higher levels - (Einstein).

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Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.Violence ends up defeating itself.

It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers - (Dr Martin Luther King Jr).

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A society that values women without diminishing men.

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Raise daughters to take their place as equals and feel confident, beautiful, capable, and courageous. Raise sons to love and admire their female equals -  (Maleka from Merumaya)

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It takes a strong back

and a soft front

to face the world.

— (Roshi Joan Halifax).

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I find social media to be a soul-sucking void of meaningless affirmation - (Wednesday Addams)

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There's a blessed equity in the English social system that ensures the public school man against starvation

- (Captain Grimes from Decline and Fall written by Eleanor Waugh).

The above quote and the 'tempering discretion with deceit' notion reminds the Domestic Goblin of certain buffoons in the Tory party... 

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Their democratic flavour doesn't suit my palate (Lestat, Interview with the Vampire)

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White Ravens

Series 1

Episode 5

Time stamp: 40:28

Helen Webb threatens Cole Atwood:

"If you can't get us Trent, then we don't need you. And if we don't need you, then I'm gonna get Sam here to march you to Hampstead Heath and shoot you in the back of the head."

Cole Atwood looks at Sam Young and asks him:

"Is that true?"

Sam Young sighs, and says:

"It would probably be Richmond Park..."

Series 1

Episode 6

Time stamp: 45:23

Helen Webb: You don't seem like a mob boss' son.

Trent Clark: My mother's not a mob boss. She's a criminally adjacent person of influence."

Gary Poppins

Sandy the Male Nanny

~ Has a degree in Early Childhood Education.

~ Worked for his last family for three years.

~ Understands how hard it is to leave your child with another person. It's like leaving behind a piece of your heart.

~ Believes the most satisfying thing you can do with your life is take care of a child.

~ Can change a diaper.

~ Mades his own lotion for diaper rash. It's a mixture of calendula and honey cream. Plus it keeps the hands young.

~ Says it's an emotional thing when you're welcomed into a new family.

~ Plays the recorder.

~ Recites poetry.

~ Bakes amazing Madeleine's that tastes lighter than air.

~ Performs the 'Snufflebumps' puppet show starring Mr Wigglemunch and the Grumpus. Sandy says studies have shown that the movement and colours help with the baby's cerebral development. The whimsical characters are just for us.

~ Knits baby clothes.

S9:E6

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And what's the one kind of boat that can never, ever sink? 

A FRIENDship...

Emma's First Birthday Party

A collection of video messages that will be given to Emma when she is 18 - like a time capsule.

A dramatic reading of 'Love You Forever' performed by uncle Joey.

A song written and performed by aunt Phoebe.

A birthday cake made by Carino's in New Jersey with Emma's picture on a bunny cake. Yellow cake, chocolate frosting with nuts.

Wind-up toys race (Phoebe gets the bear, Joey gets the robot and Monica and Chandler gets the dog).

Aunt Monica shows Emma how to organise and line up her stuffed animals neatly.

S10:E4

Mike & Phoebe's Wedding

~ Joey to walk Phoebe down the aisle in place of Phoebe's stepdad who couldn't get a weekend furlough from prison.

~ Ross and Chandler not in original wedding party

What Monica originally planned for an elegant and fancier wedding

~ Halibut or salmon

~ Giant ice sculpture to be delivered by 4pm

~ Harpist wears white whilst performing 

~ Flowers: lorkins/orchids

~ Venue: The Hamilton Club

~ Chef/food

~ Bartender/drinks

~ Band and photographer from New Jersey

Rehearsal dinner

~ 18:00

~ No babies at wedding events

~ Only allowing 20 seconds per guest for greeting

~ Pork in pot sticker

~ 20:30: Mikes bathroom break

~ 21:00 rehearsal dinner toast and speeches

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Blizzard: worst snow storm in 20 years with all bridges and tunnels closed

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The simple wedding Mike and Phoebe ended up with

~ The ceremony takes place outside on the street next to Central Perk after snow had settled.

~ Christmas lights courtesy of Gunther.

~ Joey takes over as Minister and does the ceremony.

~ Chandler walks Phoebe down the aisle.

~ Ross helps to hold Chappy (the family dog and third groomsman).

 ~ Marjorie plays the steel drums.

S10:E12

Love Letters of Great Men

Notable entries

I wake filled with thoughts of you. [...] the intoxicating evening which we spent yesterday have left my senses in turmoil. Sweet, incomparable Josephine, what a strange effect you have on my heart!

[...] I shall see you in three hours. Until then, mio dolce amor, a thousand kisses; but give me none in return, for they set my blood on fire.

Napoleon Bonaparte (December 1795).

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[...] write me a four page letter instantly made up from those delightful words which full my heart with emotion and joy. 

I hope to hold you in my arms before long, when I shall lavish upon you a million kisses, burning as the equatorial sun.

Napoleon Bonaparte (1797).

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Out of the depths of my happy heart wells a great tide of love and prayer for this priceless treasure that is confided to my life-long keeping.

You cannot see its intangible waves as they flow towards you, darling, but in these lines you will hear, as it were, the distant beating of the surf.

Mark Twain (May 1869)

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Don't write too legibly or intelligibly as I have no occupation so pleasantvas pondering for hours over your hieroglyphics, and for hours more trying to interpret your dark sayings.

A clearly written simply expressed letter is too like the lightening.

Cuff Cooper (June 1914)

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[...] You have set a crown of roses on my youth and fortified me against the disaster of our days.

Your courageous gaiety has inspired me with joy. Your tender faithfulness has been a rock of security and comfort. [...] You have intensified all colours, heightened all beauty, deepened all delight.

Cuff Cooper (August 1918)

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ever thine

ever mine

ever ours 

Ludwig van Beethoven (July 1806)

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* This anthology consisting of love letters written by great men throughout history was originally created as a prop for the film 'Sex and the City' *

Slough

Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!

It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death!

Come, bombs and blow to smithereens
Those air -conditioned, bright canteens,
Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans,
Tinned minds, tinned breath.

Mess up the mess they call a town-
A house for ninety-seven down
And once a week a half a crown
For twenty years.

And get that man with double chin
Who'll always cheat and always win,
Who washes his repulsive skin
In women's tears:

And smash his desk of polished oak
And smash his hands so used to stroke
And stop his boring dirty joke
And make him yell.

But spare the bald young clerks who add
The profits of the stinking cad;
It's not their fault that they are mad,
They've tasted Hell.

It's not their fault they do not know
The birdsong from the radio,
It's not their fault they often go
To Maidenhead

And talk of sport and makes of cars
In various bogus-Tudor bars
And daren't look up and see the stars
But belch instead.

In labour-saving homes, with care
Their wives frizz out peroxide hair
And dry it in synthetic air
And paint their nails.

Come, friendly bombs and fall on Slough
To get it ready for the plough.
The cabbages are coming now;
The earth exhales.

Written by John Betjeman in 1937

The Legends of Greemulax written and illustrated by K.C. Schmidt

A young adult fantasy book with a positive message about how boys should treat girls. There will be dragons and monsters and the monsters live inside them and try to trick them! All on a planet called Greemulax.

A real good message for boys. There's a little monster inside you, and most of the time, you're friends, but when it gets mad or hungry or thinks it deserves something that belongs to someone else, it tries to take over your body.

Suitable for kids aged 7 and over.

Featuring female knights called Rainbow Knights - a play on Rainbow Brite

The inspirational message of female empowerment.

The first step towards fixing the world is remembering the good inside you is stronger than the bad.

A magic trolley - science we haven't discovered yet.

An allegory for gender politics.

Character names include: Exthipianne Porheep (based on Xanthippe Vorhees); Turdgun the Pudding Man (based on Titus); Queen Lorianne the Wobbly (based on Kimmy's mum).

Do they ever escape Greemulax? Do the boys figure out how to control their monsters? Why does society keep feeding the monsters?

It turns out that Greemulax is just a mirage created by the Grabagorns. Each boy is born with a key inside him to tame his own monster! That's their one weakness!

* Information taken from 'Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt *

Kimmy Rings Tia Donna Maria

Taco Snake sings 12 days of Christmas: 

🎵On the nth day of Christmas, my Tia gave to me🎵

Twelve lifelong dining memories

Eleven soda refills

Ten items from the gift shop

Fla a a a an

Eight more margaritas

Seven choice of toppings

Six reasonably priced entrees

Five mole sauce

Four mariachis

Three chips and salsas

Two margaritas

And a nachos platter for the table

Nachos de Jesus recipe

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Take a party-sized bag or Tia Donna Maria's Fiesta Flavoured Nachos Chip-aritas and place on a cookie tray.

Generously sprinkle Tia Donna Maria's Queso Mexicano for Jesus' furry beard.

Cut a black olive in half to make Jesus' kind and loving eyes, full of forgiveness.

Place nachos Jesus in the oven for eight- ten minutes or wait until Jesus' edges are bubbly.

Diarrhea related emergency

We apologise for your diarrhea related emergency.

If you believe your mass does not conform to any known Bristol scale classification, please whang up immediately and text a picture of it to the University of Bristol, Biology Department at country code 44 0117 394 121.

Stay hydrated muchachos!

* Information tooken from Kimmy vs The Reverend *

Meemaw's (and Russ's) Secret Corn Pudding Recipe

Ingredients:

5 eggs

1/3 cup of butter

1/4 cup of white sugar

1/2 cup of milk

4 Tbsps  cornstarch

1 can of whole kernel corn

2 cans of cream-style corn 

Directions:

1) Pre-heat oven to 400F.

2) Grease a two-quart casserole dish.

3) Melt butter.

4) In a large bowl, lightly beat eggs. Add the melted butter, sugar and milk. Whisk in cornstarch. Stir in corn, blend well and pour mixture into casserole dish.

5) Bake for 1 hour. Eat and enjoy.

* The Domestic Goblin thinks that Nigella Lawson's recipe is just as good *

Please Pass the Government Butter

Petite école des pensées et mots de la bouche

Hosts

Professor Leonora van Arsdale-Yates

and

Dianne Delamonte-Shapiro (professor of her-story with a focus on the Viet-ma'am war) 

Guests

Tamara: poet, arsonist and trans ghost.

Edmund: works in the Columbia robotics lab and made a robot that's racist.

Perry: most promising student in Leonora's seminar, wrote an impressive paper on the Phaedo (Plato's last Socratic dialogue), and is extremely poor.

Kimmy thinks the reason she was invited to the dinner party was due to her skipping everywhere on campus and the fact that she can count to ten in Spanish whereas the real reason is because she was a Mole woman.

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All the art is meant to be touched.

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If you are allergic to any of the vegetables mentioned in Shakespeare, you will find nothing to your liking.

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Can you believe this tuna tartare is made entirely of cashews?

That's What She Said

Dunder Mifflin Paper Company based in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Scranton Business Park painted by Pam Beesly

Favourite character

~ Dwight K. Schrute

Assistant to the Regional Manager.

Beet farmer at Schrute Farms.

Runs an Agritourism Bed and Breakfast on the family farm.

Former volunteer Sherrif's Deputy at weekends. 

Hardworking, alpha male, jackhammer, merciless, insatiable.

Eventually gained his black belt in karate and became Regional Manager in season 9.

Races he is sexually attracted to: White and Indian.

Secretly dated Angela Martin (season 2-4).

Had a secret affair with Angela whilst she was engaged to Andy Bernard (season 4-5).

Slept with Angela one month before she married Senator Robert Lipton resulting in the birth of Dwight's son, Phillip (season 8).

Proposed and married to Angela (season 9).

Always keeps an extra set of Birkenstocks in the car for special occasions.

The seven first priorities:

1. Safety
2. Profits
3. Fostering a community of self reliance and entrepeunership
4. Listening
5. Respect for human life
6. Bolstering our public image
7. Getting everyone home on time

Daily routine:

• Karate eight times a week
• Boxing during lunch and at weekends
• Kickboxing three times a week
• Krav maga four times a week
• An hour of meditation every morning at sunrise and again at sunset

Why Dwight thinks he is a minority:

• Glasses wearer
• Cholera survivor
• Genius
• Non-organic family farmer

Why Dwight thinks Kelly is technically Caucasian: Anthropologically, she is Indian. Indians migrated from the caucuses region of Europe.

Dwight's requirements for attractiveness:

• Large breasts 
• Small waist
• Ample reproductive health
• Facial symmetry

Why Dwight reckons obese people in his office building are a drain on resources:

• Chairs wear out faster
• Takes more freon to keep them cool
• They flush the toilets more often
• Their massive BMs bust the rivets on the pipes

Owns an acre of land on the light side of the moon directly adjacent to the sea of tranquility (Christmas present from Andy Bernard).

What Dwight thinks the main use of English people today is: judging American talent. They're mean but they're incisive.

Wonders if King-sized sheets are called Presidential-sized in England.

Written quite a bit of X-Men fan fiction featuring Captain Mutato - half man, half mermaid. He can fight crime as a man and make love as a mermaid. Most of his writing involves the latter.

Dwight's Christmas / an authentic Pennsylvania Dutch Christmas:

• Drink some Glühwein 
• Enjoy some Hasenpfeffer
• Enjoy Christmas with Saint Nicholas' rural German companion, Belsnickel 
• Hog Maw (stuffed pigs stomach) - a Pennsylvania Dutch speciality 
• Breaking the pig rib after you've finished eating the Hog Maw
• Impish or admirable?

Handsome and Stinky: paper brothers for hire.

Kobayashi Maru.

Why Dwight's thinks his cousin Mose could make a great salesman: he's got a natural fear of paper, which would motivate him to get as much of it out of this office as possible.

Dwight dated his babysitter for a while and she described him as a passionate lover and the sweetest little baby.

When Dwight was young, he went to X-Men school for several years. He was told it was a private school that would teach him how to harness his mutant abilities. 

Normally, he finds Pam a comforting if unarousing prescence in the office. Like a well watered fern.

Dwight's brother, Jeb, used to talk about growing a peanut-grape hybrid. One plant. One sandwich.

The ring that Dwight used to propose to Angela: taken from the buttocks of his grandmother, out there by the gangster patriarch of the Coors dynasty, melted in a foundry run by Mennonites.

Mose and Dwight

Original Scranton team before the merger with the Stamford branch and with Sabre:

Regional Manager: Michael Scott.

Receptionist: Pam Beesly.

Sales team: Jim Halpert, Dwight Schrute, Stanley Hudson, Phyllis Lapin.

Accounting team: Angela Martin, Kevin Malone, Oscar Martinez.

Quality Control: Creed Bratton.

Supplier Relations: Meredith Palmer.

Customer Service: Kelly Kapoor.

HR: Toby Flenderson.

Temp: Ryan Howard

Warehouse team: Darryl Philbin, Lonny Collins, Roy Anderson, Madge Madsen.

Vice President of Northeast Sales: Jan Levinson-Gould.

The fictionalised promo:

"The Office: an American workplace airing on PBS next month is a documentary following the employees of Scranton's own Dundee Mifflin Paper Company!

In this series, which will air starting in May, we get an in-depth look at many interesting local people.

There's Kevin Malone, the Falstaffian accountant.

There's Dwight Schrute, the Head Salesman forever chasing a manager position he will never get.

Andy Bernard, the rudderless trust fund child/middle manager whose incompetence is emblematic of a declining American economy. A possible explanation for his lack of career focus is his surprising musical talent.

Though it mostly focuses on the daily realities of office life, a lurid subplot reveals the hypocrisy of a local public figure embroiled in a gay affair while preaching family values."

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Quatro Queso Dos Fritos

Amusing quotes taken from the TV series: Psych

Aggiornamento 

Butyraceous 

(S1:E3)

Double chocolate mango pineapple scones

(S1:E9)

Polygamy, pancakes and pterodactyls 

(S1:E14)

Non-fat vanilla half-caf with lots of whipped cream but without the usual pink straw

(S1:E15)

25329 

(S2:E2)

They always hide the apple in the bike.

(S2:E14)

I'm Shawn Spencer: police psychic, amateaur daredevil, denture wearer and strawberry crepe enthusiast.

(S3:E3)

We'll be as non-existent as an Aldo Nova fan.

(S3:E3)

Toblerone: it's like a more sophisticated crackle. (S3:E16)

You're not bald, you're just taller than your hair. (S4:E2)

I would rather adopt a child.

(S4:E8)

Henry Spencer's 36-hour survival basket contains: 

• Two ham sandwiches on stone ground wheat, mustard, no mayo
• Plenty of electrolyte liquids
• A flashlight

(S4:E8)

Kids names considered by Gus:

• Lavender (if it's a girl)
• Deandre Pride Guster (if it's a boy)

(S4:E8)

Lunch for us starts ten minutes after breakfast ends, goes till ten minutes before dinner starts. Unless, of course we just combine the two in which case we have linner. And then there's dessinner which is dessert and dinner.

(S4:E11)

Shawn is introduced on page 11 as a thick-tufted boy genius who ice skates through life on polished blades of snarky eloquence. Gus is described as laughing on the outside, crying on the inside, the fastidious wrinkle on the brow of Psych. The author also said Gus had skin of pure cocoa velvetiness and would like to use that skin to make children's dolls.

(S4:E16)

Gabardine Hightail: 

Two parts Brora Scotch

One part Drambuie

A teaspoon of honey

Different, classy, cool.

(S5:E4)

As for the deeds of men by the words of your lips, I have kept from the path of the violent PSALMS 17:4

Now let us go forth and kick much ass CRAIG 1:1

(S5:E7)

I would rather fall in love with a vegan.

(S5:E14)

I have the tenacity of a swiss fox and the instincts of a dragonfly.

(S5:E16)

I would rather learn to play the harp.

(S6:E3)

Tap-Man - the tap dancing superhero.

Superpower: Rhythm.

Alter ego: Mild mannered dance instructor.

His arch nemesis: Riverdance man.

How he fights: He confuses the bad guys with his quick syncopation and grabs some tap sand from his trusty pouch and splat! Right in the eyes.

To the Tap-Mobile!

(S6:E4)

I would rather spend the rest of my life at Lilith Fair.

(S6:E4)

Just cos you put syrup on something, don’t make it pancakes.

(S6:E15)

High on Carlton Lassiter's list of enemies:

• Internal Affairs
• UNICEF
• Lance Bass 
• The Innocence Project

(S6:E15)

I would rather spend all day at the mall with McNab.

(S7:E3)

Seize

Eggs

I don't know

Zebra

Eighties

(S8:E3)

Burton Guster aka: 

• Gus Sillypants Jackson
• Magic Head 
• Gus TT Showbiz
• Vernest Lambert Watkins
• Ghee Buttersnaps
• Lavender Gooms
• Clementine Wooliesocks
• Jonathan Jacob Jingly Smith
• Santonio Holmes
• Dion Richmond
• Chaz Bono
• M.C. Clap Yo Handz
• Imhotep 
• Control-Alt-Delete
• Yasmine Bleethe
• Lodge Blackmunn
• Radio Star
• Gusjay Gupta
• Watson Williams
• Ingle Woods
• Fellatio Del Toro
• Eddie Adams from Torrance
• Larenz Tate
• Gurn Blanstein
• Immaculate Conception 
• Domo Arigato
• Blue Ivy Carter
• Bill Uvrights
• Vijay Amritraj 
• Django Unchained
• Flapjack Palmdale
• Burton Trout 
• 'Bad News' Marvin Barnes
• Lil Wayne
• King Mongkut
• Gigi van Tronh
• The Wiz
• Recap McGhee
• Trending Ontwitter
• Darnell Guster
• Satchel Gizmo
• Denzel Diggs Underwood Morris Chestnut Washington 
• Burton Guster Black Spencer

Bonus information

Fries Quatro Queso Dos Fritos

Potatoes are injected with a four-cheese mixture, fry them three-quarters of the way, pull them out, batter them, fry them again, and then serve them with bacon and an ancho chile sour cream.

Cheese-infused, twice-battered fries

Psych theme song

First verse:

In between the lines there’s a lot of obscurity.

I’m not inclined to resign to maturity.

If it’s alright, then you’re all wrong.

But why bounce around to the same damn song?You’d rather run when you can’t crawl...

Chorus: 

I know, you know, that I’m not telling the truth.

I know, you know, they just don’t have any proof.

Embrace the deception- learn how to bend,

Your worst inhibitions tend to psych you out in the end.

Second verse:

In the realm of compliments, there isn't any higher than
A fabricated misdirection fashioned by a liar.
You think you hate all that you love,
Acting so surprised when it fits you like a glove.

You want to find the answers then I offer a solution
Everyone has got a dose of healthy disillusion
If it's a game yeah, they wanna play
You better load the dice cause they'll do it anyway, but...
You'd rather run when you can't crawl...

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Suck it!

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