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A restaurant in Texas has made itself a household name by putting up hilarious signs again and again, day after day, year after year. The Austin-based establishment named El Arroyo has had its sign board since its opening in 1975, and 45 years later, it’s still out there cracking everyone up.
Paige Winstanley, co-owner of the restaurant, says about their signs: “In these times when much is unknown, El Arroyo finds comfort in bringing smiles and laughter to our community on a daily basis.” With 284K Instagram followers, the restaurant is surely doing everyone who’s rolling through 2020 one heck of a service.
So let’s take a look at the new favorites down below, and after you’re done, check out part 1 and part 2. If you suddenly feel inspired, hit them up with a smashing sign idea via sign@elarroyo.com and you may well become a part of El Arroyo’s humorous legacy.
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Katie Bell 5 years ago
Who is this man can we use his hands to absorb all of Corona cus soo clean CURE COMPLETE
LaVerne Ray 4 years ago
I love all your funny signs.I hope to get back to Austin one day & come eat at your restaurant.I lived in & around Austin for about 50 years.
ALEXANDRIA ISAACKS 5 years ago
I think i almost peed my self. Hey it would have cleaned the couch
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Jane Dorothy Warner 5 years ago
Hell yeah! My nurse friend caught COVID, then passed it to her husband. They have both recovered, thank God, but lost a lot of weight.
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Annamay 5 years ago
My youngest kid is 40, oldest 54. They live all over the world and still call me when they can't find something.
Clara Knaub 5 years ago
My mom can’t find the dang raspberries when they are in front of her face. True story 😂
Imagine putting up one fresh sign every day for the past forty years or so. It’s no surprise that with such a sea of witty puns and smashing one-liners, some are just bound to anger people.
That’s precisely what happened back in 2005 when one of El Arroyo’s signs revealed a plot twist in the movie Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. But the employees of the restaurant aren’t afraid to fire up some controversy with their quips like “NFL Slogan: Why have integrity when you can have ratings?”
Austin Monthly magazine has also suggested that their sometimes bold remarks were the reason why someone tried to burn the restaurant down in 1998.
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Azenis 5 years ago
Unfortunately it can always be worse... In ways that we cannot imagine right now.
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averageperson 5 years ago
I was homeschooled K-12. It's funny to see public schoolers give it a try!
Catlady6000 5 years ago
It really isn't that hard. There are way more resources for homeschool parents now than when I homeschooled my daughter
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NavyDave 5 years ago
This was meant as a joke, for the people downvoting.
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alexandraboaru 5 years ago
They knew that the movie Idiocracy was going to happen at some point.
Anamaria Mazer de Toledo 5 years ago
Yeah. But we cannot go looney because of it ... Life has been uncertain since the moment we were born. We have to learn how to live each day as great adventure...
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Berlinda Dunbar-Nye 5 years ago
Getting to a certain age.......I'm kind of loving the masks. I do still have nice eyes ;-)
Bored Panda reached out to Laura Schulte, brand partnerships and social media manager at El Arroyo, to find out more about their iconic sign.
Laura told us their marquee was “first put out by the street in front of the restaurant by our original owner over 25 years ago to promote restaurant specials and write funny quotes.”
Today, El Arroyo gets several submissions a day from people from all over the world who wish to get their witty one-liners heard. Laura said the staff picks what to put up in terms of “what makes us laugh and is most applicable to current events.”
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heidi holmes 5 years ago
It is the closest a man will ever get to understanding that feeling from a woman's perspective!
Hilary Mol 5 years ago
Especially if the mask is too tight and doesn't fit quite right. They'll never understand the anguish of being suddenly stabbed in the armpit by an underwire that went rogue, though.
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Steve Cruz 5 years ago
And a lot of men take off their masks during the commute home, as many women do with their bras.
Rachel Hamrick 5 years ago
Truth, especially those who wear their masks while in their cars. #weirdos
Laura Gastelum 5 years ago
What’s up with that? It’s like wearing a mask when home alone
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Vic 5 years ago
I see a lot of large banners missing. The Kaijus are stealing them to make masks.
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That one rando 5 years ago
Especially in Florida it's been suddenly raining lately one day I was on a walk and this HUGE WALL OF RAIN is just going the speed of a car right towards me I BOOKED IT!🤣😂
Doris Culverhouse 5 years ago
Wish it was then we could be all "one shot one kill, fire up the grill and lets have a neighbor hood barbeque! street party.
Victoria Rey Piuma 5 years ago
Besides, I'd be very sorry for the city where the s**t goes down, but at the same time...... it's only one place, not the world
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Maybe the Kaiju gave us the virus, and that big Gundam Jaeger that's being built is to take them on haha.
Throughout the years, El Arroyo’s signs have certainly blown up and attracted customers from all over the country and the world, said Laura.
She also said that the most popular signs are usually the ones that are “relatable and funny to large groups of people.” “We've seen a lot of success with our signs about past elections, and current events such as commentary on the pandemic.”
In order for such a sign to go viral on social media (and many of them do!), Laura said it takes the right person to share it, like celebrity or a popular meme account, and it has to be genuinely funny.
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Audrey Penna 5 years ago
That and the "Are you still watching?" And then I get annoyed cause I got to get the remote.
bryguy 5 years ago
I never get this message but hear people talk about it a lot. Is it not a thing in Canada? Are we just expected to still be there watching? Is it just my account, maybe they know I'm always still there? What could it be!!
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Isabel Care 5 years ago
My TV tells me it's going to switch off in a couple of minutes because no button has been pressed for so long.
Jane Dorothy Warner 5 years ago
Watching Supernatural, I swear the recaps - which I cannot skip - take up a quarter of the run time.
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Valerie G. 5 years ago
Well, he did just do an audio of John Lewis' column that was printed on the day of the funeral, and he did a marvelous job of it for his dear friend.
Jennie-Lind Normand 5 years ago
Yes! The year requires much more swearing!
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M Kate McCulloch 5 years ago
Nah - gotta be Samuel L. Jackson needs to narrate 2020. We need a whole lot more m***********s this year.
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Eva the Ravenclaw Bookworm📚💖 5 years ago
And brownies, and ice cream and butterbeer and screw it the whole fridge
Steve Cruz 5 years ago
Cookies also improve performance of home-bound kids. Teach them to bake, cook, plan meals, budget, shop, etc. Amazing how many people I walked through making a pot of soup who were blown away at how cheap it was, superior in flavor to cans, and easy.
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According to El Arroyo’s official statement, “over the years, we've covered every food pun imaginable while never forgetting witty commentary on current events, but the face(s) behind the daily marquee messages remains a secret for now.”
Maybe not quite a big one, since these days, most sign puns are submitted by fans online and you can try your luck and wit too!
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Jo PP 5 years ago
This is a good thing, eye contact /shapes of our eyes are important ways in which we regularly communicate and understand others, so they will know you are smiling ☺
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Katie Bell 5 years ago (edited)
This is deep if you go out and nobody is there are you in public at all?
Rainbow Panda 5 years ago (edited)
“Amateurs.”- The ghost in the wall who never comes out | Edit: Thanks for the like! 👍
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Eva the Ravenclaw Bookworm📚💖 5 years ago
I have never wished the weekend would last forever. I love school. SOmeone slap some sense into me
Karen Lyon 5 years ago
Funnily enough....didn't feel that way about the weekend, just about working. Only about four or five years from retiring as a teacher, and as much as I love what I do, I was getting to the point where I could appreciate the idea of staying home instead of getting up and spending my life at school. Now I'm hoping that the fall will whiz by, because we're not back to in-person learning until January. My late Dad used to say all the time, be careful what you wish for!
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Doris Culverhouse 5 years ago
Oh you just busted my attempts to clean. don't look behind the curtains or doors.
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Hilary Mol 5 years ago
This made me laugh out loud. While trying to drink water. I'm now going to go find something to wipe off my laptop screen with.
Rainbow Panda 5 years ago
xD For those who don’t understand, only 10 people are allowed to gather in one area at that time. 😆
Khloe Ness 5 years ago
me: hey dad theres a bunch of boys in the yard. Dad: ingnores Me: there fighing over a drink. Dad: my milk shakes noo
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WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
I think a lot of parents got to "enjoy" the results of their parenting and suddenly realized how underpaid teachers are...
Rainbow Panda 5 years ago
I wrote the comment in the wrong section, silly me.
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ebony1k124 touch 5 years ago
That's probably why some really want their kids to go back to school!
Vicki Perizzolo 5 years ago
and this situation should be scaring the c**p out of the rest of us - these 'home-schoolers' are going to be in charge in 20 years....holy c**p!
Steve Cruz 5 years ago
Amazing how quickly attitudes have gone from: "Teachers are heroes, pay them anything!" to "Glad the schools are reopened, don't be late for the bus!"
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Dorothy Cloud 5 years ago
So true. I get so excited when someone knocks on the door. Usually just UPS guy!
Johanne Trudeau 5 years ago
Yup, know that feeling well!!! Actually putting pants on to take out the garbage, instead of staying in your PJs...
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That_WeirdBunBun! 4 years ago
Am I the only one who noticed the “w” in “would” is an upside down “m”? (I’m sorry, I just like pointing theses things out.)
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Rainbow Panda 5 years ago
There needs to be comfortable business pjs. I’d say, softness inside and business outside. 😍
Ingrid Collender 5 years ago
hell, I did a job interview on Monday in my business PJs...the interview panel were too!
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Rainbow Panda 5 years ago
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Donald Holder 5 years ago
Pros and cons of food. Con. Making it. Pro. Having something to make.
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Monday 5 years ago
Yes...if you love your SO just get up and tell them, no need to post it to the world.
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Ralph Spooner 5 years ago
Just wait till your heart stops five times, for up to 45 seconds at a time, but restarts each time on it's own. The first time for me was at home, the other four times were in the hospital emergency room where they were monitoring me with an EKG hookup. Came home from a nearby Alabama hospital on New Year's Day 2019 with a pacemaker. SO, I consider myself extremely blessed and give God thanks every morning for waking me up.
Anamaria Mazer de Toledo 5 years ago (edited)
God bless you, Ralph. Feel hugged
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getting to close to the 40 year thang.........I remind myself every few days. I still love him, even when he...........fill in the blanks ;-) I can assure you, it will take up several notebooks using shorthand.
Karen Lyon 5 years ago
I just read an article where the author said she knew things were getting bad when told her husband everything wrong with her life was her fault, and the friend that was usually chirpy about her marriage spent a good chunk of a phone call ranting about her hubs. Poor guys.
Steve Cruz 5 years ago
Quite a few friends suddenly realized how unequal the division of chores is -- funny how things change when a stay-home partner actually sees how much time the career partner's work actually takes each day.
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Anamaria Mazer de Toledo 5 years ago
Of course. Alcohol makes sugar levels in the blood fall, then stick to chocolate to get it back
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Janet Chaney 5 years ago
I've only gotten dressed three times this month to go to the store....and I got more beer
Barb Evans 5 years ago
Clothes are definitely off the list, and I'm sure the grocery delivery man thought we were running a black market liquor store during lockdown.
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Lea Springstead 5 years ago
Gonna keep adding holidays to this list till we've got the whole year covered: Laborween Thanksfriday Christyear: tada it's 2021. That was agonizingly slow and unbelievably fast a the same time.
Rainbow Panda 5 years ago
When this is over: We’ll celebrate an All Party, every single part we’ve missed. 🥳🤩
Sharon Hahn 5 years ago
I thought spending my 70th in quarantine was bad until I saw how many kids missed out on their senior year, sports, etc., then I didn't feel so bad anymore. You're never alone in this.
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Kathy Strack 5 years ago
Yikes! Can't things be getting better in some respects? Can't drive well? Call Uber...
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Blue of the yams (They/He) 5 years ago
And parsley, sage, and rosemary. :)
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Dragonfruit'nrollerskates 5 years ago
As soon as quarantine started, my acne I've been struggling with for awhile went away. Then as soon as I saw people again, it came back. Thank you social anxiety sweat.
Kathy Strack 5 years ago
Everyone else on the same slippery-slope? Then, some will "age" gracefully? Oh, go for the make-up & hair gel!
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Raine Soo 5 years ago
Oh, this is so true. People are morbidly curious, so we love to hear about an accident. Any accident.
Shadow Kat 5 years ago
...except tragic ones, like the crash where Kobe Bryant died
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K Witmer 5 years ago
My sil and mil are always on some new fad diet exercise equipment from late night tv shopping and surgery. It's so annoying bc it's all they preach about. I told my husband if they replace the words diet and exercise w the word god they would be just like people that push their religion on you.
Anamaria Mazer de Toledo 5 years ago
Or they will found a new religion...
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Doris Culverhouse 5 years ago
yeah just get fat like the rest of us couch, mouth stuffing and mashed potato gravy lickers.
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Catherine Brady 5 years ago
Believe it or not . . . I'd actually forgotten about him. Thanks a bunch!
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Scagsy 5 years ago
Just waiting for the 'I don't get it' comment. Bound to happen. Absolute certainty. lol
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Livy Gallant 5 years ago (edited)
A sheep, a drum, and a snake fell off of a cliff... Baa-dum-sss
Kathy Strack 5 years ago
I grew up in San Leandro, CA(next to Oakland); a talented neighbor, Dean Kay, wrote music & was on Welk's show! He wrote "That's Life", recorded by Sinatra. Trivia you may like....
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Valerie G. 5 years ago
Great, now I'm picturing all those little stupid squirrels dancing their little asses off.
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Karen Lyon 5 years ago
Or cats, either! I know a couple of people who are single, live alone, no pets. I couldn't do it.
That_WeirdBunBun! 4 years ago
YAS! (especially my rabbit. I have 5 other pets, but she’s so sweet!)
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Laura Gastelum 5 years ago
An adult isn’t bad, it’s being a grown up that must suck. I have no experience in this area
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Caroline Overill 5 years ago
In my case sadly it's fart and you asphyxiate the cat. Fortunately so far she has not packed her bags to return to the animal shelter. She just covers her nose with her paw and gets on with it.
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Kendra Miller 5 years ago
Off topic but I learned why men and women's clothing is buttoned oppposite-ly. SO the thinking was that it's easier to button the left into the right for right-handed people. So for guys it's designed so they can easily dress themselves, but for women it's the opposite because they were expected to have maids and family to help them into their clothes. Which is kinda legit since their clothing was ridiculous.
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Doris Culverhouse 5 years ago
I'm on the way to Pair-new jeansis, France. no, too poorto buy airfairo
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John Montgomery 5 years ago
Yeah. I'm guessing closer would be if someone put black liquorice in a cookie.
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Anonymous Panda 5 years ago
Oatmeal raisin is the best cookie. Unless warm chocolate chip is the option. Then I eat both.
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Rainbow Panda 5 years ago
The crafts people: *wastes time sewing and making a whole new PJ shorts and does all the little details*
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averageperson 5 years ago
Studio C Spidey Senseless on Youtube, the video version of this, & it's clean
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
I once understood that I was not alone in the bedroom because while I was sitting on my bed reading a book, I heard something walk on the wall behind me ... It was a giant spider and I was alone at home. Or rather, not alone! The ensuing scenes were not that far from this. All I will say is this: It is truly a miracle what one can do with a can of air freshener!
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Steve Cruz 5 years ago
If a spider was in one room, you just haven't found the spiders in the other rooms yet.
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alwaysMispelled 5 years ago
When a guy is about to mansplain they'll start by saying something like, "uh, well, actually... " and then the "blahblahblahIinherentlyknowmorethanyoubecauseihaveapenis"
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Katherine Boag 5 years ago
And PSAs recommending people wear one could learn a lot from safe sex messaging
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Catlady6000 5 years ago
I'm gonna make that my new substitute curse word. Oh, Bubbles; Bubbles you, you mother bubbles!
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Helen Haley 5 years ago
How do you achieve cool as a cucumber on the surface? I'm ALL squirrel in traffic.
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sbj 5 years ago
Why is it soooo difficult for people to follow the arrows? They can't even look you in the face as they know they are in the wrong, obviously highering the risk of infection to themselves outweighs getting that loaf of bread when there''s still 20 left and only 5 people in the shop
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
And a "no-stop-and-chat-for-half-an-hour-while-blocking-the-aisle"-sign.
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Vic 5 years ago
You have to be a grown up to that, coz "got your poo-poo together" just doesn't have the same ring to it..
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Monday 5 years ago
I hope you do it in a super aggressive voice they can feel the intensity for your love.
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Helen Haley 5 years ago
But it's a catchy theme song, and goes well with anxiety attacks.
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Valerie G. 5 years ago
I remember as a girl wanting some of those for Christmas, while flipping through the Sears catalog.
Marlene Ricker 5 years ago
I can't keep track of the days anymore. I have to turn on the TV just to check the listings and to get my bearings!
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
Yeah, but what if it's Sunday and only your Friday nickers are clean?
Catlady6000 5 years ago
There was no Sunday undies. My mom said because it would be sacrilege. It just seemed mildly kinky to me.
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WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
Influenza's would fall for this. They don't read any further than "Offer" .
Load More Replies... Just JoLynn 5 years ago
I laughed way too hard at this one. I used to work at a Mexican restaurant and the owner had the same policy for taco Tuesday.
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Scagsy 5 years ago
Well, I guess they'll get free tacos. It's on the sign.
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Naomi Armitage 5 years ago
At our job, everyone uses Microsoft Teams. Except ONE person. She only uses Skype. I still don't know why.
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WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
A race between a senile old megalomaniac, a bipolar rapper and a 78 year old dinosaur totally disconnected from reality. Fun times....
Carrie Laughs 5 years ago
For a moment I thought 'how bad were the ones that didn't get that far?' And then I remembered it isn't about that, it's money. Sigh.
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Monday 5 years ago
Same, I enjoyed his performance a lot more than I thought I would
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Rhys Tal Cernunnos 5 years ago (edited)
Kanye West has had it coming, he's as bad as Trump for opening his mouth and letting stupid s**t fall out. He's not even that good as a singer to begin with. And he was supposed to move out when Trump became president, he said he would leave the US if Trump became president... so much for that.
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Caroline Driver 5 years ago
I heard on the news that tv watching has gone up a third compared with last year. Only a third, really?
Caroline Driver 5 years ago
I heard on the news that tv watching has gone up a third compared with last year. Only a third, really?
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