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Arr, that do be pleasin' his noodliness!
Mine's a frappuccino with extra grog, Jim-lad!
my kinda place!!! er, um, me own kinda place.
Seem to be 'avin' a spot o'trouble with yer pirate dialect, there, Dread Pirate Roberts? I think ye was meanin' to say, "That be my kind o'place, so it is."
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