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Well I would not feel so all untapped, Everybody must get slapped.

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needs moar <a href="http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\?v=IhJQp-q1Y1s" target="_blank">fish</a>

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Yeah, but the traffic in the Midtown tunnel is just too much!

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How do you count Cosmo? Sum of all their covers (make sure you've got a calculator with <em>a lot</em> of digits)? Median? Mean?

Oh that's right, gotta be mean with a story like this.

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He could be a fan of Suzanne Vega <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wik..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_Open_Hand">http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

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Necessary, but sufficient?

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I love the smell of cayenne in the morning.

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Why do you think he was called Punch?

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The whole thing could have been avoided if Bloomberg had not pointed to Qunn in the middle of the rally and shouted hysterically, "She's my sister <i>and</i> my daughter!"

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You don't understand -- he's WHITE!

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Or did his face run into Capsis's palm?

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Zsa Zsa Gabor did it better.

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Isn't slapping kind of a girly thing to do? I'm just saying.....

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He was standing his ground.

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Possible explanations... A) He had a donut in his other hand but wanted to applaud. B) He was suspicious. "If you see something, slap something." C) Completely normal behavior. The young man is a writer. That's how publishers thank writers for hard work.

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<a href="http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/blogs\/dailypolitics\/2013\/08\/nyc-hospital-closure-rally-gets-violent-when-anti-chris-quinn-protester-slaps-" target="_blank">NY Daily News</a> says there were two victims! One was holding a toddler when he was assaulted...

<blockquote>A rally to highlight Christine Quinn's role in the battle to keep St. Vincent's Hospital open turned violent Monday morning when an anti-Quinn protester slapped state Sen. Brad Hoylman and then a campaign volunteer.

Our Jennifer Fermino reports:

Hoylman, who spoke in favor of mayoral candidate Quinn, was holding his toddler daughter, Sylvia, when George Capsis -- publisher of the weekly West Village newsletter Westview -- slapped him.

Capsis (pictured) then turned to a Quinn volunteer -- who appeared to be college-aged -- and smacked him several times across the face.

The volunteer -- who did not want to be identified -- ran off in horror. He was later seen crying.

Capsis later said he was emotional because his wife died two days ago in a Bronx hospital. "I had to travel an hour and a half to see her," he said. "I have pent-up anger."</blockquote>

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