Quiet Please - Tanglefoot
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Quiet Please - Tanglefoot

B1IntermediateOctober 28, 202628 min

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There are no cracks about leaving tools in the shop when you order a job.

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He'd need one of those moving vans to coat him.

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Quiet, please. Quiet, please. The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please, which is written and directed by Willis Cooper, and which features Ernest Chapel. Why it's pleased for tonight is called angle foot.

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Back in the old days when GI didn't mean general issue, it just meant galvanized iron. I used to be a plumber. There are no cracks about leaving tools in the shop when you order a job. Because if a farmer took along all the tools he's liable to need on a job, he don't know nothing about to get there.

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He'd need one of those moving vans to coat him. That's the same. What you can do with a 14-inch stilson wrench and a miffle of oil for him would be surprised. Who plays who I would? Well, you ever smell a lemon cup?

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