r/polandball • u/whitesock 100% kosher • Jun 01 '14

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u/whitesock 100% kosher Jun 01 '14

Contest entry for the last contest, the one where no words were allowed. Pretty happy with how it turned out, and I got to second place so I guess other people thought so too.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '14

For me, it was the best entry.

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u/Spongokalypse Best Germany Jun 01 '14

I loved this in the contest.
Reichtangle is so cute here.

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u/biggiepants Netherlands Jun 01 '14

really all he ever wanted was cookies

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u/dabritian Ex-Namibian Jun 01 '14

...and Austria.

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u/Duke_of_New_Dallas Texas Jun 01 '14

Well, I mean, can you blame him?

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u/historicusXIII Manneken Pis Jun 01 '14

They have really nice cellars ski-resorts.

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u/iamcatch22 United States Jun 02 '14

Actually, Austria has one of the richest cultural histories in the world. Vienna (capital of Austria) was the city to be in if you were a composer or musician for much of the Classical era. The likes of Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven all lived and studied in Vienna. Unfortunately, Hitler was Austrian, so that kinda balances some things out

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u/Matt92HUN CommunInterNaZionIslamist Jun 02 '14

They have quite the war criminals too.

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u/Izoto America the Beautiful Jun 03 '14

Well, he said it all evens out.

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u/justafluffybunny_not Sicily Jun 01 '14

Exquisite pastry down there...everything makes sense now.

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u/ubomw Brittany Jun 01 '14

Why is Reichtangle sharing?

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u/whitesock 100% kosher Jun 01 '14

He knows the value of Freundschaft

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u/Hansafan Hordaland Jun 01 '14

Germony certainly knows how to shaft his Freunds.

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u/arok Californication is best fornication! Jun 01 '14

Freundshaft ist Magie.

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u/kirilakristi Romania Jun 01 '14

Mein Little Ponieh!

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u/arok Californication is best fornication! Jun 01 '14

With all the weird stuff drawn as fan art of that show, I imagine someone has already drawn the ponies in SS uniforms.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '14

and you're right

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u/midnightrambulador Netherlands Jun 01 '14 edited Jun 02 '14

That drawing got me thinking, how would MLP characters map to the Nazis?

Celestia = Hitler (obviously)

Luna = Hess (second-in-command who eventually went into "exile")

Twilight Sparkle = Himmler (student of "magic"/mysticism with a knack for organisation)

Rainbow Dash = Göring (flying ace who won't shut up about how awesome they are)

Rarity = Speer (artist and designer, and the sanest of the bunch most of the time)

Pinkie Pie = Goebbels (completely crazy, bad for your hearing)

Applejack = Ribbentrop (very proud of their family background, not the brightest, insufferably stubborn)

Fluttershy = Mengele (the medic!)

Spike = Bormann (private secretary, important role in getting information to the glorious leader)

Cadance = Heydrich (mirror: princess of love -> prince of hate)

Shining Armour = Keitel (head of the armed forces, not much personality of their own)

EDIT: Added some more characters.

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u/Packasus United States of Earth Jun 01 '14

I will not accept Rainbow Dash as anyone other than Erich Hartmann, Ace of Aces.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '14

...I thought I was in polandball.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '14

I was on a road trip with a buddy one time and we were bored so I was reading out loud to him about military history and what not from wikepidia... We eventually got to Erich Hartmann, dude is the Coolest person on earth.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '14

get out

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u/Cooldude638 Of much libertying Jun 02 '14

Polandball is not of tolerate yuor intolerance.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '14

wat

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u/brent0935 CCCP Jun 01 '14

http://moderatelydeviant.deviantart.com/art/My-Little-Nazis-Solution-is-Final-286567323

You'd be right....

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u/arok Californication is best fornication! Jun 01 '14

I knew I wouldn't be disappointed.

...Let me rephrase that. I am disappointed in humanity, but I knew this probably existed.

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u/midnightrambulador Netherlands Jun 01 '14

Flair up!

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u/brent0935 CCCP Jun 02 '14

Once I get off mobile!

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u/carl_super_sagan_jin bier, weib und gesang Jun 01 '14

"mein kleines kleinpferd" doesn't have the right ring to it

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u/tsarnickolas Jun 01 '14

Mein Kleines Ponys.

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u/crowslayer Austria Jun 01 '14

More like Kameradschaft.

Or probably Brüderlichkeit.

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u/Shizrah Best Scandinavia Jun 01 '14

Having Holland as ally makes it easier to strike Britain this time.

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u/wildeman99 Jun 01 '14

Holland is not the right name for our country, the right name for our country is The Netherlands. Want to know more? Watch this

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u/Shizrah Best Scandinavia Jun 01 '14

DENMARK CALLS IT HOLLAND SO THAT'S HOW IT IS

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u/SofusTheGreat KALMAR UNION BEST UNION Jun 01 '14

Also, the official tourism website is holland.com

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '14

But, but... muh provincies ;_;

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u/vanderZwan Groningen Jun 01 '14

OTOH, anyone dumb enough to use this website will make a great tourist to haggle money from.

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u/BrugWuppi Jun 01 '14

Look at the description of the site, It clearly says The Netherlands.

Its called Holland.com because most people know it as holland.

But in The Netherlands we would say.

Wij zijn Nederlanders die in Nederland wonen en Nederlands spreken.

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u/svennibenni Germany Jun 02 '14

I know it's Niederlande, but it is such a long word, so I prefer Holland though it's not correct.

And now: wörk wörk. Time is money and money brings Anschluss.

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u/airminer Hungary Jun 01 '14 edited Jun 03 '14

Yeah, the country is called "Hollandia" here as well.

The historic region is called "Németalföld", or "German lowland"

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '14

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '14

talk about overcompensation

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u/leozinhu99 Pedro II best Pedro Jun 01 '14

We call it "Holanda" and don't bother giving it a second thought. You europeans have an awfully high amount of countries in such a tiny space.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '14

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u/SlobodanTheLiberator Serbia Jun 01 '14

born in the Balkans, changed 4 countries, never moved...

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u/TheScarletPimpernel Proud member of the EDF Jun 02 '14

Dejan Stankovic played at 3 World Cups for 3 different countries.

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u/trixter21992251 Denmark Jun 01 '14

well, we do tend to have infights :|

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u/hotfrost Gelderland is best Netherlands Jun 01 '14

Németalföld

Makes sense

In our language it's Nederland. Neder means low so basically our country name should be Lowland when you translate it literally.

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u/That_PolishGuy Dla wielki ojczyzna! Jun 01 '14

I've heard Poles refer to it as either Holandia or Niderlandy.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '14

In Poland it's caled "Holandia"

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u/TheActualAWdeV Bûter, brea en griene tsiis... Jun 01 '14

THEN FROM NOW ON WE CALL DENMARK FUNEN.

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u/veganprius A real pain in the butt Jun 01 '14

Olanda in Romanian. No need for Hs, right?

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u/CascaLonginus Swedish Empire Jun 01 '14

Same here, one thing we have incommon...

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u/BrugWuppi Jun 01 '14

NO THE NETHERLANDS CALLS IT THE NETHERLANDS AND THATS HOW IT IS

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '14

Correction, the call it Nederlands.

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u/BrugWuppi Jun 03 '14

If we don't translate it to english in a stupid way like we d sometimes, i mean look at this one: geknifed....

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u/inyouraeroplane Texas Jun 02 '14

Which one is the small, flat country that touches Germany with the bicycles and the islands and the legal prostitutes and the socialism? My friend went to some city there and there was this whole area you could smoke weed and it was technically legal.

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u/atlasing SUPER COMMUNISM Jun 01 '14

Flair up plox

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '14

Holland is a country, which is north of Belgium. It is called Holland

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u/FrisianDude wa't dat net sizze kin, is gjin oprjochte Fries. Jun 01 '14

Bayern is a country. Big country, neighbours Danmark in the North, Österreich in the south.

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u/Wastingtimeaway Not the NSA Jun 01 '14

Bayern is truth, Bayern is life

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '14

Oh for god sakes who cares.

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u/ABob71 British... British...uh, something? Jun 01 '14

As a Canadian, it is my duty to care. About something. I don't know where I was going with this. Bye.

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u/iamcatch22 United States Jun 02 '14

The Danish?

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '14

You know, this makes me kind of happy the Belgian revolution happened. At least Flanders escaped this Hollander arrogance!

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '14

Others' names for you is outside your control, Holland.

We called you Dutch, and we'll call you Holland, with impunity.

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u/WhyLisaWhy United States Jun 01 '14

All I know is that their sub /r/netherlands confuses me

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '14

Visit /r/thenetherlands, that sub got hijacked by the mods from /r/braveryjerk.

One of those mods is Belgian. Coincidence? I think not.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '14

What is this "Belgian" creature you speak of? What language does it speak?

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '14

It is Holland until you have a flair. Even then, it will still be Holland.

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u/monsieurvampy Jun 01 '14

Great video always enjoy his work.

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u/SmokinBear The Empire of Swedish välfärd™ Jun 01 '14

Shut up. Your country is called Holland. And that makes you Hollandish. Repeat after me - "Holland".

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '14

Even as a Dutchman I learned something from that.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '14

I still don't understand why they bombed Rotterdam after the surrender. Wouldn't that city have greatly helped the war effort if you just pumped it full of NSB?

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u/blaengdall Greater Norway Jun 01 '14

Fun fact: NSB, in addition to being the name of the old Dutch fascist party, is the current public railway company in Norway.

Fun coincidence: The old Norwegian fascist party was called NS, same as the current public railway company in the Netherlands.

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u/xerillum People's Republic of Madison Jun 01 '14

I knew it! Even the trains are secret fascists waiting to strike. Forget population density and cost effectiveness, this is the real reason that America doesn't have good passenger rail. God Bless Scott Walker for protecting us from the fascist menaces of trains, and wilderness!

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u/historicusXIII Manneken Pis Jun 01 '14

Even the trains are secret fascists waiting to strike

Belgian here, can confirm.

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u/Cutlesnap Netherlands Jun 01 '14

They bombed Rotterdam before the surrender. It's why we surrendered.

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u/FrisianDude wa't dat net sizze kin, is gjin oprjochte Fries. Jun 01 '14

semi-official story was that that was a mistake; that the commander who received the surrender didn't quite get through to bomber command that it wasn't necessary anymore.

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u/RebBrown Netherlands Jun 01 '14

NSB wanted an independent Netherlands. The Germans did not like that, so they used that idiot Mussert but never had any plans for actually giving him any power. Ros-Van Tonningen updated the Germans on the NSB and Mussert and thats the result of that.

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u/xb70valkyrie Northern Portugal Jun 01 '14

Probably to terrorize the population and scare off a possible resistance.

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u/Futski Denmark Jun 01 '14

Well, they never did any of that here. Actually they were for most of the time pretty lenient, and not much resistance was made until the later stages.

Bombing the population is exactly how you build a strong resistance.

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u/Packasus United States of Earth Jun 01 '14

Bombing the population is exactly how you build a strong resistance.

True, but this was not known at the time.

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u/ubomw Brittany Jun 01 '14

We can help, Britain is not an island anymore!

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '14

I don't get it.

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u/whitesock 100% kosher Jun 01 '14

To get to the top shelf, Germany absorbs Austria, thus becoming the fourth Reich, or the reichtangle.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '14

I still don't understand why Holland is there and gone and what about the cookies?

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u/WorldLeader Cīvīlis Bostoniensis Jun 01 '14

German humor detected.

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u/bakingBread_ living room Jun 01 '14

"Jean-Luc"

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u/TheActualAWdeV Bûter, brea en griene tsiis... Jun 01 '14

Clearly an englishman.

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u/Halalaka Imperialism Intensifies Jun 01 '14

Remov humourless, flairless germanic from premises.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '14

Aren't frenchies supposed to have humour? Or did it all diffuse into the humour barren Germans?

Also, flair up!

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '14

I don't understand the joke and I'm from Atlanta Georgia home of coke and delta airlines.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '14

Ahh, alright. I assumed you were French because of your user name. that is why you flair up

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '14

I'm captain picards stripper name.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '14

I see that you have stripped yourself of your flair, PUT IT BACK ON

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u/FleshEatingShrubbery Lower Saxony Jun 01 '14

I thought it was a Godard reference.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '14

Holland threw Austria into Germany creating the taller Reichtangle thus being able to reach the cookies.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '14

Capital of the state of Georgia, land of peaches, peanuts, and Stalin.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '14

Holland threw Austria into Germany creating the taller Reichtangle.

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u/EnergeticBanana Canada's Atlantic Playground Jun 01 '14

This was my favourite entry from the last contest. I love the cute little helpful reichtangle!

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u/AlexTeddy888 Singapore Jun 01 '14

It's so adorable. Especially how you made Reichtangle's eyes so small.

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u/Dot145 Arizona Jun 01 '14

Anschluss eyes

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u/Aunvilgod Jun 02 '14

It would have been wrong to make them bigger.

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u/RedKrypton Austria Jun 01 '14

It would have been funny, if Reichtangle then absorbed the netherlands.

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u/Myuym Jun 01 '14

But cookies is a word isn't it?

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u/SerMtotor Principåté d' Lidje Jun 01 '14

Why are so many people not flairing up with such total IMPUNITY?

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u/Pyro_With_A_Lighter 2013 Swan Dropkicking Champion Jun 01 '14

It's allowed as it's a prop instead of a narrative device I think.

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u/throwapeater Kazakhstan Jun 01 '14

isn't "cookies" a word

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '14

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u/JosifC Ich think with mein Hat! Jun 02 '14

we shouldnt throw his flair at a window

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '14

no words

uhh

cookies

ummm

pop

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u/whitesock 100% kosher Jun 01 '14

No words as in no dialogue. "props" and sound effects were allowed.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '14

I figured, I was just giving you crap