"Now you just look here, you grebo, you can go shag your bloody sporran if you think—" One of his teeth… — David Mitchell
"Now you just look here, you grebo, you can go shag your bloody sporran if you think—" One of his teeth splashed into my Kilmagoon, fifteen feet away. (I fished the tooth out to keep as proof of this unlikely claim, otherwise no one will ever believe me.)
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