Nekhrun wrote:Ampoliros wrote:hmm...so I'll have to come up with a particularly nasty demotivator to be come one of the Jacarutu 5?
Just use 5 pics of SandChigger.
Don't forget the one with the pink shirt.
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Nekhrun wrote:Ampoliros wrote:hmm...so I'll have to come up with a particularly nasty demotivator to be come one of the Jacarutu 5?
Just use 5 pics of SandChigger.
GamePlayer wrote:So, do we know who is counted among the J-5 as yet?
SandChigger wrote:Yep. Even set up a whole n'other tasteless website to make him seem realer.
So, what do you think, does this put Junior on the collateral damageable list with Momma Reb?
(Whoa ... who KNEW being the stepson of a best-selling hack could make you such a babe magnet?! Or is the attraction purely gravitational?)
Ampoliros wrote:Personality goes a long way
Freakzilla wrote:That'd have to be one charming mothafuckin pig. He'd have to be ten times more charming than Arnold on Green Acres.
chanilover wrote:Is that really The KJA's stepson?
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GamePlayer wrote:Oh, is this the troll that arbitrarily declared the "Jacurutu 5"? Okay, now I get who this is