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Toshiba Magic Gestures Convert You Into Hitchhiking Gandalf
Posted by Jesus Diaz at 11:00 PM on August 30, 2008
To be honest, I was going to headline this article "Toshiba Magic Waving Handy-Spanky-Fingery Gestures Are Perfect for Harry Potter and Online Porn Users," but I decided against it at the last minute for obvious reasons, even when I had two powerful arguments in favour. You will understand them when you watch Helga--the Good Toshiba Witch of West Berlin--and myself in the video:
To be honest, I was going to headline this article "Toshiba Magic Waving Handy-Spanky-Fingery Gestures Are Perfect for Harry Potter and Online Porn Users," but I decided against it at the last minute for obvious reasons, even when I had two powerful arguments in favour. You will understand them when you watch Helga--the Good Toshiba Witch of West Berlin--and myself in the video:
Bang bang, he shot me down
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