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281: No Such Thing As A Chatty Cow

No Such Thing As A Fish

CHAPTER

The History of the Cannon

Reverend Robert Hawker was both a priest and a mermaid. At the siege of Chekiang in 1861 to 1862 typing rebels had prostitutes take off their trousers and moon the forces, hoping that it would cause the cannon to misfire or burst. Some ships guns have things called tampions which comes from exactly the same route as tampons. And they also though because they were so phallic in shape they thought that if you could make them excited it would stop them from working.

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