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OK, Mr crisp-chewrng, heavy-breathing, asthma- exaggerating idiot, it's time you learned to control yourself. I have no idea how you manage to sweat so noisily, but next time you're guffawing like a rabid donkey at inappropriate moments of a show. pause for a moment, look around and feel my irritation boring into your flesh.

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reporter who turned the ‘thaidomide’?

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