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CLEMENTINE HITS THE WALL

It’s always a good idea to remain within the limit of your abilities.

Clementine gets with the times and adopts a Donald ’do
Clementine gets with the times and adopts a Donald ’do

It’s always a good idea to remain within the limit of your abilities.

For example, the reason Fairfax feminist Clementine Ford uses four-letter words …

… is because longer words are just too difficult:

Clementine can’t spell pusillanimous without a dictionary, two sub-editors, her publisher, some instructive mansplaining, a Google search and a trained helper monkey to actually type the word.

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