and if your house is ever burgled by a short fat man with a hat and a taller man with spikey hair
you can tip them down the stairs to deter them
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glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Tue 21 Jun 2011, 9:14,
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i would hope if that happened it would happen at christmas
when the house is full of strings of lights and spiky baubles.
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sleepybinky, Tue 21 Jun 2011, 9:23,
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