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	Windmill Boy

wiganfootie

10-1-2009 6:11 PM

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10-1-2009 6:53 PM

debbyski

I do not think he was smoking pot

A stoner stumbles out of a party, and starts to walk home.
One the way he bumps into a guy who is all bloody and mangled. The guy limps up to the stoner and says "Call me an ambulance!" The stoner looks at him for a second, smiles and says, "You're an ambulance!"

10-2-2009 6:43 AM

celestialdancer

debbyski

10-2-2009 7:43 AM

wiganfootie

good-one

10-3-2009 10:47 PM

aklimento

Smart boy! On those like him depend our future.

10-4-2009 6:26 PM

lollipop10

Whoa! great story!

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