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"ref": "2001, tedfat, “Flange!!!!”, in alt.society.nottingham (Usenet)",
"text": "I was in bed the other day with the missus and I asked to see her flange. Imagine my surprise when she got up went downstairs to my toolbox and brought me up a metal looking object called a flange!!!!! Needless to say when she asked to see my nuts the next time I obliged by doing exactly the same as her.",
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