Norman Mailer too is on there, even though he brings in a half-hooker doll who dismantles the bulb because there is too much light on their table, which Elaine is not having because these are her five-dollar fixtures from way back, and she tells her to get her ass out and never again to screw around with her light bulbs, which she never does.

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There is an old saying: if you kick a mastodon in the ass, twenty minutes later it will say ouch. (Sadly, no mastodon has been around for a while to confirm the accuracy of this).

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