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The duel settled with infected sausages

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Guns are far too loud; a true gentleman aggressively settles arguments with heavily infected meat. When challenged to a deadly fight, a clever intellectual chose pork sausages as his literal weapons, insisting one heavily contain deadly trichinosis. His utterly baffled opponent immediately canceled the fight, proving raw meat is a fantastic deterrent.

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