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Talking of white supremacist violent types, I was in America, recently... [Wild laughter and applause from audience]

— Bill Bailey Part Troll (2004)

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I'm sort of like a post-modern vegetarian; I eat meat ironically.

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Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt,
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