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- Move over Pizza Rat and Milkshake Squirrel. We've got Kale Chihuahua to win us over, now.
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- Say what?! The Dalai Lama said if he had a female successor, her "face should be very attractive, otherwise not much use."
- And finally, look at this chill-ass donkey in a hammock.
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