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mopinko

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3. well, jack was, in character.

Reply to Staph (Reply #2)

Thu Jun 11, 2020, 07:59 AM

Jun 2020

how the 'hippopotamus got his hide', iirc.
when he was the jin of all deserts it was spooky.
but all he did was fill an evil man's skin w 'dried up currants and such' and made him itch and scratch until he had a hippo hide.

meryl's was 'how the elephant got it's trunk'

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