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Sorry about your Uncle Fred, but hey, sometimes you end up dead. Did somebody bonk him in the head? Did somebody pump him full of lead? What the...? Are they trying to be humorous? Betcha glad it wasn't you instead.

— Brian Regan Standing Up (2007)

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Source: Standing Up (2007)
Work: Standing Up, 2007
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