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430: No Such Thing As The Assistant Honcho

No Such Thing As A Fish

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What Is a Poncho?

The head hon cho competition in the bird man cult was to elect the tangata manu, who was the bird man of the year. And essentially it was the first person to find the first egg that was laid by the sooty turn every year. The main competitors would either compete themselves, or they'd elect a hoop, which was someone who competed on their behalf. If you're the first one to get the egg, is you get to, uh, shave off your eyebrows and eyelashes and your head, your hair, not your head, um. You took a new name that was adopted as the name of the year,. Then you danced and sang your way to the royal

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