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I can clear a dinner table in less than 60 seconds, moaning like a dockyard Elijah about the deficit and the inevitable reckoning.
Christopher Buckley
Christopher Buckley
Born: Sep 28, 1952

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Dinner, Inevitable, Seconds, Deficit, Reckoning, Dinner Table, Table, About, Clear, Like, Moaning, Than, Less

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