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[–]Dsands12 194 points195 points ago

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Trigger Happy TV! I remember watching entire episodes on google video. It was hilarious

[–]frickindeal 69 points70 points ago

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HELLO! YEAH, NO I'M ON THE TUBE. IT'S RUBBISH.

CIAO!

[–]kirbs2001 4 points5 points ago

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HELLO! WHAT NO, I'M IN THE CINEMA, THE CINEMA!!!!!! IT'S RUBBISH. CIAO!

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[–]penguinzftw 7 points8 points ago

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NSFW/NSFL

Just so you know. Then again, this is r/wtf.

[–]BDaught 2 points3 points ago

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These aren't my shoes.

Yeah don't click if you don't want to see a foot in an ass.

[–]DanVader 0 points1 point ago

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shoe on head?

[–]plasm0dium 0 points1 point ago

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Excuse my slime...

[–]penormasta 1 point2 points ago

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Could we get a description of what's inside?

[–]IS_THIS_A_COMMENT 3 points4 points ago

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penises/peni/penis'

[–]durwel 13 points14 points ago

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penasia*

[–]jm001 4 points5 points ago

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If I had the artistic skill, I'd redraw all of fantasia using exclusively cocks.

The chinese mushrooms could be racially stereotyped choads instead.

[–]Duhya 1 point2 points ago

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No, draw a map of Asia,

Just dicks.

[–]Coloneljesus -2 points-1 points ago

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louis CK

[–]Thants 1 point2 points ago

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Penises or penes. ಠ_ಠ

In Latin (from which we get the word), the -is ending becomes an -es (see: thesis, analysis, paranthesis, etc).

But, of course, the English rule is also acceptable.

[–]felix_dro 0 points1 point ago

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I always thought it was one of those same singular and plural, like: "look at all those penis..."

[–]Thants 0 points1 point ago*

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Nope! Here's a list of words with the same singular and plural form.

Most are either animals (deer, moose, swine, etc.) or relatively new words (aircraft, hovercraft, etc). Most of the animal names ultimately come from a root that is neither Latin or Greek (you can use this online etymology dictionary to see for yourself), which makes sense because Latin and Greek nouns typically were very regular in how their forms were declined.

I only know of a few irregular nouns in Latin. This article on the plural of virus sums it up well:

The crucial problem here is that, classically speaking, there appears to be no recorded use of virus in the plural. It was a 2nd declension noun ending in -us, which is rather common, but it was also a neuter, which is rather rare. I could only come up with three such 2nd declension neuters: virus (some poison), pelagus (the sea, usually poetically), and vulgus (the crowd). None appear to admit plurals. Perhaps this is because they are mass nouns, not count nouns.

So basically, Latin nouns had very specific rules for whether something was singular or plural. This is incredibly important because Latin has a very different syntax than English does. Word order was actually relatively unimportant because it was the word endings that gave the word's meaning in the sentence and not the context.

For example, the sentences

canis edit canem

canem canis edit

edit canis canem

etc.

all mean

dog eat dog

The different endings on the noun root word (canis) define whether it is the subject (canis), direct object (canem), etc. as well as whether or not it is singular or plural.

Another thing you can take away from this is that the plural of virus is not "viri" or (shudders) "virii." Instead it likely lacked a plural because its use and meaning in its original language differs from how it is used and defined today. So the proper plural of virus would be the English tradition: viruses.

tl;dr etymology (the history of words) is pretty neat, and penis >> penises/penes, virus >> viruses.

[–]penormasta 0 points1 point ago

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The others are saying something completely different...

Was that supposed to lure me? ಠ_ಠ

[–]IS_THIS_A_COMMENT 0 points1 point ago

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I didn't notice the foot in ass.

[–]penguinzftw 1 point2 points ago

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Well, from other people's descriptions, a man with his foot up another man's ass.

[–]SkyGodPathos 28 points29 points ago

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HELLO!!!!? YEAH I'M IN AN ART MUSEUM! ... I SAID I'M IN AN ART MUSEUM.. WHAT? ... NO! IT'S RUBBISH!

CIAO!

[–]Inamanlyfashion 1 point2 points ago

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HELLO!?!? YEAH I'M JOGGING!

[–]smokinjoints 11 points12 points ago

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I remember watching it on the television!

[–]Frankeh 0 points1 point ago

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Me too. I feel so fucking old and I'm only 23.

[–]peeted 2 points3 points ago

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Dom Joly original and still the best troll.

[–]Portlande 3 points4 points ago

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My favorite show of all time! I hear he completed a script for a trigger happy movie, and is filming another movie in the US right now!

[–]dead-yossarian 2 points3 points ago

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yes but have you seen the size of him recently, he has been eating a few to many pies.

[–]EquinsuOcha 1 point2 points ago

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A few |__________|*_____| Too Many

It's a pie chart.

[–]landragoran 1 point2 points ago

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[–]carRAMROD810 3 points4 points ago

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[–]qwerasdf23423423 0 points1 point ago

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lol, walking intentionally slowly is what black people in the south do.

[–]accio_chocobo 0 points1 point ago

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HELLO? I'M IN THE CINEMA!

[–]Rofldile 42 points43 points ago

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Lol, this should be in r/funny.

[–]Ullallulloo 7 points8 points ago

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Half the stuff in this subreddit could be. :P

[–]TasteMySadMichael[S] 0 points1 point ago

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You're right of course, I am truly sorry.

[–]XtortionBear 36 points37 points ago

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This isn't wtf. This is from a British comedy show.

[–]layendecker 5 points6 points ago

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So is this. Just because something is from a British comedy show doesnt mean it cant be WTF

[–]wave517 8 points9 points ago

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I would actually say most British comedy is a bit WTF.

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[–]Asdayasman 0 points1 point ago

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Divine David is fantastic, though.

PEOPLE IN BUCKINGHAM PAAAAAAAAAAAWLACE. THEY MASTURBATE. LOLLIPOP LADIES, LOLLIPOP MEN.

[–]tomstockmail 1 point2 points ago

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I think I'll start comment whoring out that I have /r/holyshit available, at least until I'm tired of downvotes. Needs content though, preferably stuff not like this.

[–]juneya02 79 points80 points ago

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[–]roobens 33 points34 points ago

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I prefer the THTV one. Remi's copycat version pissed more people off, but the fact that in THTV the snail guy stood patiently, waited for the traffic to stop and then lay down and started shuffling painfully slowly across the road just seems infinitely funnier to me than a random guy in a snail suit crawling down a busy road in the same direction as the traffic annoying the hell out of people. In THTV the people in the cars waiting at the crossing are just like "WTF", in Remi's version they're like "fuck off". Fine line but it makes a world of difference to the humour.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

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Isn't there one where he dressed up as a tortoise and, as he was slowly crawling along, a guy dressed as a hare ran past? I haven't seen it in ages.

[–]Frankeh 0 points1 point ago

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Wouldn't surprise me. He did loads of stuff involving mascot costumes.

[–]saM21785 22 points23 points ago

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that's what I thought right away

[–]HZVi -1 points0 points ago

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ditto

[–]Jibbletoad 6 points7 points ago

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I want to have sex with Remi Galliard, he's the best french dude ever.

[–]Gundly 0 points1 point ago

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He's awesome.

[–]Frankeh -1 points0 points ago

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He's the only french dude I can stand, and he's still a massive jerk.

Amazingly good at football, too.

[–]Frankeh 1 point2 points ago

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Dom jolly did it about 10 years before him..

[–]shrididdy 0 points1 point ago

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My favorite Remi skit of all time. So stupidly simple an hilarious. I just think of how confused/angry the drivers must be and it gets me every time.

[–]NeverOriginal -2 points-1 points ago

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[–]kerrykerrykerry 19 points20 points ago

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Where's the WTF?

[–]hmd27 2 points3 points ago

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I kept waiting for the guy in the car to get out and kick his snail ass!

[–]mark445 8 points9 points ago

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This looks so British.

[–]Vive_Ut_Vivas 0 points1 point ago

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I think it is, actually. It says "Look Left" on the crosswalk and the street has jagged lines leading up to it. Both of these are consistent with a typical British crosswalk.

[–]roobens 1 point2 points ago

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crosswalk

Zebra crossing FTFY.

[–]Vive_Ut_Vivas 1 point2 points ago

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Shit, I'm not as culturally aware as I had hoped lol

[–]xyroclast 0 points1 point ago

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Serious question: How come British shows traditionally have poor quality when filming outdoors?

I remember on old shows like Fawlty Towers, they'd cut to a shot of the parking lot or something and it would look like they found the footage in a chest in the basement

[–]Keithinator 1 point2 points ago

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It's just old portable camera's and a lack of lighting. On a set they could of course use massive cameras and massively light the whole thing, whereas outside neither of these things are really an option. And British shows never had the budget of US shows where more often than not they got around this by simply filming 'outside' inside massive sets.

[–]Zeneren 3 points4 points ago

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I miss Trigger Happy TV :( Some of it is just absolute genius.

[–]bbb19 2 points3 points ago

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The next day's headline: Man in Snail Costume Killed in Hit and Run

[–]grundose 7 points8 points ago

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And since then the art of being a dick in public has evolved quite a bit... see example 1

[–]tomonline 1 point2 points ago

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i miss trigger happy tv

[–]yt1300 1 point2 points ago

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Snail'd it.

[–]yamaha2k11 1 point2 points ago

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I wish they still made episodes of Trigger Happy TV. It was defiantly one of the funniest TV shows I have ever watched.

[–]X1R0N 1 point2 points ago

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Reminds me of Uzumaki

[–]Cannondale1986 1 point2 points ago

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[–]millerk1 1 point2 points ago

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I don't know what this is but I support it.

[–]No_Need2know 9 points10 points ago

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Remi Gaillard did it better

[–]grundose 17 points18 points ago

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Shhhh he may have... but that doesn't mean he didn't "steal" it from Trigger Happy.

[–]triobot 2 points3 points ago

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except dom jolly did it about 10 years ago.

and you can't do what remi did, in london.

[–]ImSeeingRed 1 point2 points ago

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tbh Remi isnt crossing the road.

[–]Ariensus 1 point2 points ago

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That snail man is my hero.

[–]ayekeneh 1 point2 points ago

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He tried this very joke when an unmarked police car had to stop. They got out the car and told him on no uncertain terms what he was doing was idiotic. Very funny after seeing this clip although it's not to be found on youtube.

[–]doomchip 1 point2 points ago

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YES! This show has never gotten enough props. Screw bringing Firefly back we need this to cheer us up

[–]Rasket 1 point2 points ago

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Oh fuck sake cmon reddit. This is so fucking old.

[–]Lumberjack3 -1 points0 points ago

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this is from like 2006 its so old

[–]U8MEyo 1 point2 points ago

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Uzumaki!

[–]FindingIt 0 points1 point ago

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Great sketch! I miss that show.

[–]nepidae 0 points1 point ago

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Snail trail

[–]Piratiko 0 points1 point ago

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The image took forever to load for me, and I thought it was the joke.

The actual joke was way better.

[–]seanraf 0 points1 point ago

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[–]buddhaledread 0 points1 point ago

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YES! This is my favorite Trigger Happy bit! I wish the .gif was longer though, way funny to see at the end. <3

[–]rsrhcp 0 points1 point ago

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Why Trigger Happy TV is still one of my favorite programs!

[–]olivelady 0 points1 point ago

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I swore that he was my soul mate.

[–]aaronwright 0 points1 point ago

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What is this, a gif for ants?

[–]speyton 0 points1 point ago

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This is so old I have it on VHS...

[–]leedlebeetle 0 points1 point ago

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new hobby

[–]xyroclast 0 points1 point ago

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Well that looks dangerous

[–]hotyoungsnail 0 points1 point ago

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DAD??!

[–]Domalicious 0 points1 point ago

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The kid from the Youtube comments finally became a snail! ಠ_ಠ

[–]Bronan_the_Brobarian 0 points1 point ago

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These are the kind of post I look forward to on WTF

[–]TerryArchi 0 points1 point ago

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That's one small rc-car

[–]creepingdeathv2 0 points1 point ago

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wtf are you doing drivers ?! there are no traffic laws against squashing a fuckin snail ... run over it already!

[–]Lennep 0 points1 point ago

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i absolutely loved his giant cell phone pranks. i miss this show

[–]stop_yelling 0 points1 point ago

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Get the Kat excited! Common! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVgYC6MBckM

[–]stop_yelling 0 points1 point ago

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Are you not Grey Squirrel? (Link - Link)

[–]Asdayasman 0 points1 point ago

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There was a story about that. He did it first time, perfectly, and everything went awesome, that's what you see. He thought: "Nothing goes that well the first time, let's do it again," or something similar, and tried it again, and the first car that pulled up was a police car, who got out, and told him if he ever saw him again, he'd arrest him.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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I know this asshole. He is always the first one out of his pew after our Tuesday mid-evening sacrifice, and he takes forever to get down the fucking aisle. Also, he shows up for every damn potluck, but never brings anything to share. Dick.

[–]amemut 0 points1 point ago

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WTF? People actually stop at zebra crossings? What magical place is this?

[–]soothfast 2 points3 points ago

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The UK! There is an art to it though sometimes. I never cross until I am sure they are going to stop (which to be fair, they usually do). But you do sometimes get bastards who speed right across despite seeing you.

[–]AlbertAugust 0 points1 point ago

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Here in Canada, every car stops if there's a person anywhere within 30 feet of the crosswalk.

[–]Undead_outlaw 0 points1 point ago

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If I saw things like this on my way to work my day would be so much better.

[–]Nintendork64 -1 points0 points ago

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He's awfully sluggish...

[–]mark_lan 3 points4 points ago

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Unless he drove an Audi Sports Car like an S4, S8 etc - at which point as he screamed away over the horizon, I'd turn to you and say......

Look at that S CAR GO!

[–]Man-alive -3 points-2 points ago

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You... S-nailed it!

[–]sparklysheep -2 points-1 points ago

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You need to come out of your shell and discover some better jokes!

[–]g0ing2f4st -1 points0 points ago

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Hah when i first saw this i thought it was remi gallard

[–]7nights -2 points-1 points ago

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How hard is this guy trolling?

[–]orv -3 points-2 points ago

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REMI!!!

[–]kemdog -3 points-2 points ago

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Remi Gaillard did it better! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHCxdlZ7G18

[–]esecarlosotondo -5 points-4 points ago

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Remi Gaillard?

[–]roobens 2 points3 points ago

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...ripped this skit off years later.

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[–]Frankeh 2 points3 points ago

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Dom Jolly