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Another Week at Carmichael's

Another Week at Carmichael's

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The second argument was more dangerous than the first. The first was probably harmless, but it evolved, or devolved, as arguments tend to.

Humans will never, and can never definitively answer what breakfast cereal is the best. That’s completely subjective.

Subjectivity never stopped Tooth Wallace from raising his voice and demanding that he was right. In this case it was that his chocolatey favorite with the vampire mascot was far superior to all other cereal offerings.

Tooth’s head is loud. People can hear him praying silently after Communion at Our Lady Queen of Redemption.

When he walks into Carmichael’s Beef and Tap, and says “hello, weasels,” the backglass on the Iron Maiden pinball machine shakes.

No one who was in Carmichael’s that night can tell you how the cereal argument resulted in Carmichael’s First and Last Annual

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