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Dey nawt Even up to daet on teh latest remedeez frum oldwives tales cuz dey losted teh old wives.
INVISIBLE MACYS PARADE - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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There are also trouts, porpoises, rays, oldwives, mullets, plaice, and very many other sorts of excellent good fish, which we have taken and eaten, whose names I know not but in the country language we have of twelve sorts more the pictures as they were drawn in the country with their names.
The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia James Wharton
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