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Published: Feb 26, 2014

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The names of things... (and remember, "this is not a pipe").

Stuffed and mounted in MS Paint. Beautiful frame modified from clipart by scrapbee.deviantart.com/art/Ju… - thanks, ScrapBee, your work is inspirational.

"Negative" comments are welcome. Jeez, how hard do I have to hammer this one?

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