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Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Five Pieces of Junk

From Cracked: Five Pieces of Junk That Turned Out to be Invaluable Artifacts
Posted by Caitlin GD Hopkins at 12:17 PM
Labels: humor, material culture

1 comment:

VJESCI said...

.one mans junk...

May 20, 2009 at 1:12 PM

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