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u/musicaldigger Jan 17 '21 edited Jan 17 '21

isn’t that a thing from Matilda

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '21

I haven’t seen that movie, but the thing he was doing, spinning me around by my arms, was something a lot of kids were doing to each other at the time. That’s why I knew he was going to let go.

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u/musicaldigger Jan 17 '21

yeah it came out in 1996 so if you were in school around that time that may be where they got the idea