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davidbailey
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 Message 17 of 19
08 December 2009 at 6:42pm | IP Logged 
That was hilarious...I laughed so hard. I suppose if you really try you could imagine those words in there. You can still here jingle bells though if you listen for them. Kind of like your mind hears what you expect it to. ;)
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JS-1
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 Message 18 of 19
09 December 2009 at 1:13am | IP Logged 
It took me two listens to convince myself I could hear "paedophile". It must have taken
an utterly twisted mind to hear this without actually being prompted.
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Bao
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 Message 19 of 19
19 January 2010 at 10:13am | IP Logged 
JS-1 wrote:
It took me two listens to convince myself I could hear "paedophile". It must have taken an utterly twisted mind to hear this without actually being prompted.

Or just somebody who'd read a newspaper article concerning that topic on the day s/he bought that toy - it's most likely that person was prompted, you just don't know they way it happened.
(And now I feel compelled to watch videos with misheard Jrock lyrics.)


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