Why Every Electrician You’ve Ever Met Is A Liar

Here’s a short list of things I don’t know: why we can’t vote on weekends, how TLC can feature Honey Boo Boo Child and still call itself The Learning Channel, and why nap time has to go away after kindergarten. John Lloyd radically expands my list and does it with an undeniably charming English accent.…

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Oct 19, 2012

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