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Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Pimp Your Nutcracker


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Try your own here.
Posted by Peter at 7:07 AM
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3 comments:

Anne Haines said...

That's hysterical!

December 21, 2005 7:11 AM
Emily Lloyd said...

LO effing L!

December 21, 2005 4:25 PM
Kelli Russell Agodon - Book of Kells said...

oh gawd, what happened here?! ;-)

ho ho ho

December 22, 2005 3:24 PM

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