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#1 2013-01-15 09:21:04

burred
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"cudgels" and "cuckolds" for cockles of the heart

These are plain old malaprops, clearly, though pretty funny ones.

He certainly responded as if so, and he responded as an old curmudgeonly man, who doesn’t really warm the cudgels of adults hearts, let alone children’s.
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What goes around, comes around. A story that’ll warm the cudgels of your heart!
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Our Kitchen Crew of Charlie Hedrick, Bob Duke, and Bill Shuman will set you up nicely while Chef Tom will warm the cudgels of your heart should it snow or shine.
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Ultimately it’s truly a useless distinction to make with no practical benefits other than to warm the cuckolds of your heart, which were planted by someone inside you and you chose not to disregard.
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In perhaps the longest blog entry on record, Arthur paints a picture of Afghanistan that will warm the cuckolds of your heart
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#2 2013-01-15 11:44:31

kem
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Re: "cudgels" and "cuckolds" for cockles of the heart

Just when you thought English couldn’t get any weirder…


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