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VALENTINES DAY VS. SHARKS Valentines Day is this month. Good grief, another Hallmark holiday that excludes a third of the world’s population. Please shoot me in the face if gun control still doesn’t exist by the time this is published. I’m sure some of you are rolling your eyes because of my insensitive gun control joke, but I bet most of you are rolling your eyes because you’ve got a big night planned with your significant other. But to you I say—What does it all mean? Why do you have to prove your love on February 14th of all days and

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GUESS WHAT DAY IT IS? GUESS WHAT DAY IT IS? -Geico Hump Day Camel (2013-2015) In memoriam

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