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Comment by BeFlatXIII

13 hours ago

Hysterical raisin?

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js2  13 hours ago

Sorry, just a silly misspelling of "historical reasons" I picked up once upon a time...

http://www.catb.org/esr/jargon/html/H/hysterical-reasons.htm...

lazide  6 hours ago

I thought it was a play on ‘grapes of wrath’

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