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2 Jul, 2020 | Australian Values, Cultural Values, Economic Values, Humour, Lifestyle & Life, Science Values, Uncategorized

What is it With Toilet Paper?

When age can, uninvited, link the distant poppy past of The Knack with the all too adjacent Present and come up with a pun, Sir Roger is delighted that there are others still living who appreciate the troubling incongruity of those innocent days and these so shredded ones, and have gone ahead and done something about it and finished it off.

So Sir Roger is relieved that he no longer has to tolerate the unwelcome earworm.

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