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A play on Dave Chapelle / Prince’s advice to Charlie Murphy to “purify [him]self in the waters of the Lake Minnetonka”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnWdnD0oyBk

Lake Wobegon is a fictional Minnesota town featured on A Prairie Home Companion and is described as a place where “all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average.”

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Driver roll up the Partition please.

Limousine sex is one of the most pregnancy-inducing sexes one can engage in!

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Schweitzer was a meme French doctor/philosopher

BUT WHAT MOST DON’T KNOW ABOUT HIM: he was legendary on the Wheels of Steel

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That way he reads her with his hands so it gets freaky-freaky too!

See Zebra Katz “I'mma Read” for a true test of literacy

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Wait…should the BLIND MC be DRIVING???!

(he does!)

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Beethoven is ALSO from “B Town” (in his case, Bonn Germany)

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Marijuana + Islam = Blind MC!

“Ayatollah” means “eye of God” in Arabic – it is one of the most revered clergy positions in Shi'ism

Khomeini of 2Pac’s Outlawz is named after Ayatollah Khomeini, revolutionary leader of Iran

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The psychological devastation of getting a pay cut is also a major reason for economic cycles – an exception to this rule is in South Korea, where pay cuts are part of the culture and are regularly observed in economic downturns.

See Yale economist Truman Bewley’s book Why Wages Don’t Fall During a Recession, in which he concludes that employers resist pay cuts because the savings from lower wages are usually outweighed by the cost of lowering employees’ morale. Dented morale then raises staff turnover and reduces productivity.

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Dickens' characters always sound like they are (cf. Mr. Murdstone in David Copperfield)

Pecksniff sound like he be smelling some dick…

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