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Home / a little bit distasteful / It’s all done with smoke and midgets
Posted on March 4, 2011 February 4, 2018

It’s all done with smoke and midgets

Mix up of:

  1. It’s all done with smoke and mirrors, and
  2. Midgets

Reported by Niall Acott.
Source as yet unknown.

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