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CameraShoe_GitEmSteveDave: well, actually, i just re-read your suggestion and realized the milkjug flytrap doesn't require a dead woodchuck...
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Mai eety beety gurly kitteh, Kalypso, playz da fetches wif da zecurty ring from da milkjug.
I don’t do “Get it, boy”. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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They're made of #2 milkjug plastic, which believe it or not, is far more comfortable than the traditional ones.
PEACEBANG'S NEW MAGAZING FOR MALE CLERGY FASHION PeaceBang 2006
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Stephen reached back and took the milkjug from the locker. —
Ulysses 2003
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Stephen reached back and took the milkjug from the locker.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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We return up the silent stairs, I carry a bottle of Pommery and a milkjug -- for you shall revel, too, Polyphemus; and as I have forgotten to bring a saucer, you shall drink, as no cat has drunk before, from an old precious platter bearing the arms of the Estes of Ferrara -- over which Lucrezia Borgia laughed when the world was young.
The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel William John Locke 1896
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English speakers, too, have an equally vivid turn of phrase, although, come to think of it, who is likely to shed real tears over an overturned milkjug?
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