Not a week out of the hospital, he cracked this illegal Peruvian kid in the face with a hammer and two hours later threw down at the Pathmark because he thought some fool was talking shit about him, popped said fool in the piehole with a weak overhand right before a bunch of us could break it up.

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Once asked to edit a misleading piece from the field at the time of the Vietnam war, he acidly refused, remarking that he was not in the business of polishing shit.

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On any boat you are continuously measuring and judging the environment, and even down in a hold, working on a shit pump, some part of you is aware of the wind shift.

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In either case, hopefully the result will be actual debate, rather than shit-flinging and stonewalling from all sides of the argument.

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When she and Rafa were alone, Pura was pretty quiet, but when Mami was around homegirl had an opinion about everything, jumped in on every conversation, said shit that made no sense like that the capital of the United States was N.

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In general, the boys went along with this, and Candy often felt as if she were watching a play in which all the actors had agreed to pretend that someone onstage had not just taken a huge shit.

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And Jannuzzo acted as pit bull in notifying 12 record labels that the company objects to artists using the word "Glock" in rap songs such as Dr. Dre's "Bitches Ain't Shit, " mainly out of fear that Glock's name will become a generic term for handgun.

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