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Alright, for eons, you’ve got your Hadean, Archean, Proterzoic, and Phanerozic… Wait, what? Come on, man, keep up! Okay, wait, Hadean? Can you spell that? Get with it, man, H-a-d-e-a-n (chink, chink, chink, chink) I’m going to have to add an eon if you don’t speed up. Ready? (chink, chink, chink, chink) okay Alright, it gets really fun in the Cambrian period. Some of my best work. That’s part of the Paleozoic era. You with me? (chink, chink, chink, chink) ouch! (chuckle) The Cambrian, y’all are going to be trying to sort that one out for years… C’mon, man, we haven’t got all day… (chink, chink, chink, chink) CRACK! Again? Alright, get another one, I’ll wait…. Look, let’s just go with the short version: “In the beginning…”

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Date: 5/22/2022 5:17:00 PM
lol, very good!
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Date: 5/19/2022 12:50:00 PM
"in the beginning" This made me smile.
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Date: 5/18/2022 6:28:00 PM
Hahahah! Which tablets you talkin' about, Willis? Mine started later, when the Lawd took His Peebles out of the Land of Egypt! ~ Gary Coleman
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Jeff Kyser
Date: 5/18/2022 7:24:00 PM
Lol, Don’t you know hardbacks always come out before the paper versions?

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