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Thanks!
Also, once again, congradulation to last seasons winners Xantia and Calligraphy
Thank you, calligraphy. I thought it was funny too, though to be honest I sort of failed in what I'd intended; my plan was to use all of the given prompt words, but I only used five of them.
I lol'd at the use of "whittle"... since by then I was in on the joke! Weirdly, it reminded me of a Simpsons episode were Grampa Simpson reminisces about WWII by saying Hitler stole America's number 4, and they had to replace it with "diggity". Then he continues the story with "So, it was nineteen diggity-five"...!
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