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Never been a soccer fan, just didn't grow up with
Dec 12, 2021, 8:40 PM
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it. But really enjoyed watching the videos of the celebrations and how many fans we had up there.
I do remember the first title. I.M. Ibrahim personally asked dad if he would call the Final 4 on radio. Dad was like me, and knew nothing about the game. He told coach as such, that he'd love to be a part of it, but would have no idea how to call it. I do remember listening to the game with him, and celebrating the win with a cold one. He joked he didn't get to call the first titles on the radio in football or futball ??
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Re: Never been a soccer fan, just didn't grow up with
Dec 12, 2021, 8:50 PM
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Did not realize Jim was your dad. I grew up listening to him on the radio. He was awesome and have missed him. Think about him everytime I’m listening to a game on the radio!
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I don't advertise it much, but for a Natty
Dec 12, 2021, 9:01 PM
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hey ?? heck most here don't even know who he was anymore. Coming up on 20 years since he passed
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20 years, hard to believe.***
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Heck, I forgot the date this past September
Dec 12, 2021, 9:09 PM
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a Facebook "friend" posted something about it and tagged me in it and I was like, man! So I posted something. Turns out it was 9/3, and not 9/9 when he actually passed. I was a week early ?? felt like an idiot
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Re: Heck, I forgot the date this past September
Dec 13, 2021, 5:41 AM
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Right after the first game of the season??.
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Same.
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Dec 12, 2021, 9:12 PM
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He was our soundtrack for a long time.
Big big part of my memories of Clemson football and basketball.
I shed quite a few tears when he passed.
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Re: I don't advertise it much, but for a Natty
Dec 12, 2021, 9:09 PM
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Don’t seem like 20. You know back in the day there wasn’t many on tv. Dad and myself listened to all that wasn’t on tv and sometimes we just turned the volume down on the tv and watched it and listened to Jim. Who was in the booth with him? All I remember is your dad.
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Changed a lot over the years
Dec 12, 2021, 9:18 PM
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Former Associate SID Jerry Arp did games for a while. DJ out of Greenville Scott Shannon. Ken Allison who posts here some for several years. Former recruiting director under Danny, Clyde Wrenn and Tim Bourret were a team for several years. When Bob Bradley retired Tim had to move on to those duties. Mike Eppley several years. Rodney on the sidelines those years. Tim did all the basketball with him. Bob Mahoney baseball.
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Re: Changed a lot over the years
Dec 12, 2021, 9:32 PM
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Bourrett is still around and I remember Eppley and Rodney. Some of those other guys I would probably remember their voices but the names do not ring a bell. Except for Bradley. That name I remember as well.
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Clyde Wrenn?
Dec 12, 2021, 9:46 PM
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Had no idea he helped call anything for radio. Got to know him pretty good in a former life 20-25 years ago. Loved his stories from back in the day. Talk about an interesting guy, and a great guy too. Wonder how he’s doing now. Got to be on up in age.
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Clyde was a great guy. Called games with
Dec 12, 2021, 9:50 PM
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dad and Tim in the mid 80's after all the probation stuff. He and old Clemson QB Jimmy Addison were running buddies. Always on the road with us for the away games
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Wow, he never mentioned it before, but not surprising.
Dec 12, 2021, 9:57 PM
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Does he still live around Columbia? Ever talk to him?
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No idea, but I may check around
Dec 12, 2021, 10:05 PM
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lost track really when he came to USuC to work
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Re: No idea, but I may check around
Dec 12, 2021, 10:12 PM
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Well, like most, I grew up listening to your dad every Saturday. Grew up on a small farm in the Pee Dee with no cable or satellite. There would be maybe 2 or 3 games a year on TV, so every Saturday was spent with a radio on listening to Jim Phillips. Remember having to give my Dad score updates, or having a radio on close by while working.
Lot of work back then but good memories.
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Actually, it was
Dec 12, 2021, 9:33 PM
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Hi everybody, it's football/basketball/baseball time again as today the Clemson Tigers take on the Possums of N.E. Mississippi Valley Community College. We'll be back with Tiger head coach Cliff Ellis in just one minute.
Had to choose a typical Cliff December game ??
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Re: Actually, it was
Dec 12, 2021, 9:54 PM
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I just found out a couple of days ago that Cliff was at Coastal. Not sure how I missed that.
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He's been there a long time
Dec 12, 2021, 10:07 PM
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just passed 800 wins. Just stomped the coots
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Re: I don't advertise it much, but for a Natty
Dec 12, 2021, 9:12 PM
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I didn’t know he was your Dad either. Back when every game wasn’t televised nationally his voice was synonymous with Clemson football. The two things I remember most on the radio back then was your Dad and Leonard’s Losers. Simpler times.
You know he was smiling down on the soccer team today too.
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Radio PBP guys were institutions before all
Dec 12, 2021, 9:27 PM
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the TV. You could scan the dial and know exactly who was playing by the voice. Fulton, Munson, Woody Durham, Al Ciraldo at Tech, Caywood Ledford at Kentucky, Bob Harris at Duke. Only real link to those guys now is Gene Deckerhoff at FSU, who by the way was dad's family paper boy in Mineral Ridge, OH
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Growing up . . .
Dec 12, 2021, 9:43 PM
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In the fall . . . If we weren’t in Tiger Town . . . We spent every Saturday with your Dad in our ears . . . There are still several of us that cherish the sound of his voice . . . It is “comfort food” to our souls!!!
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Re: Growing up . . .
Dec 12, 2021, 9:45 PM
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Amen!
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Re: I don't advertise it much, but for a Natty
Dec 12, 2021, 9:43 PM
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He was the best. Loved his work. I met him a couple times. Very nice man. He made what he did seems far easier than it is.
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Awesome. Thanks for sharing.***
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Met Jim once, late at night at radio station WF?? while I
Dec 12, 2021, 9:20 PM
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was hanging 4-5 signed sports figure pics I’d acquired from SI for this commercial interior project thru my firm Business Interiors of Greenville back around 1977. I’d been hired to design & furnish the interior furnishings, carpet & walk coverings for lobby, some offices & conference room.
Jim walked in to the conference room, didn’t really acknowledge me but asked where I ‘d gotten those beautiful, large & custom framed art pieces and then he walked out to head home since after 9pm.l
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Would have been WFBC, now WYFF
Dec 12, 2021, 9:38 PM
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Likely the TV station ad he was still sports director there then. Though radio was right beside it. If he was leaving at 9 he likely had to be back at 11 for the late night newscast
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Re: Would have been WFBC, now WYFF
Dec 12, 2021, 9:53 PM
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Never knew he was a sports director at WYFF. Lived in Greenville as a kid and it was WSPA, WYFF and I cannot remember the ABC affiliate out of Asheville. Remember listening to Stan Olenik (sp?) for sports.
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Then WFBC-TV canned him in the early 80's
Dec 12, 2021, 10:12 PM
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to hire future congressman JD Hayworth. He went in to full time radio then, which he enjoyed far more than TV. When he took the Clemson job in 1968 it was a package deal as WFBC owned the network then
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Re: Never been a soccer fan, just didn't grow up with
Dec 12, 2021, 9:09 PM
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Like Rally19 said, he was Clemson football to me when I was a young lad.
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Re: Never been a soccer fan, just didn't grow up with
Dec 12, 2021, 9:21 PM
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I grew up on a Farm in the lower part of Florence County. We listen to your Dad call the games on the radio. Always love to hear him yell about the Touchdowns. Good memories.
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I lived in Effingham for 10 years
Dec 12, 2021, 9:43 PM
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went to and flunked out of then FMC out of high school. Quite an accomplishment to flunk out of that place ??
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Re: Never been a soccer fan, just didn't grow up with
Dec 12, 2021, 9:19 PM
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Are you in Clemson? Still attend the games?
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Im a preacher in Columbia
Dec 12, 2021, 9:48 PM
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been here preaching at the gates of hell 10 1/2 years. Don't get to many games anymore as I work on Sunday's ?? and just to dang expensive. When he was alive it was always free ????
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Re: Im a preacher in Columbia
Dec 12, 2021, 9:59 PM
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Columbia that’s got to be rough lol!
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Moved here in the middle of the 5 games
Dec 12, 2021, 10:16 PM
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never to be spoken of. No, not fun.....then. Now, no issues ??
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Re: Never been a soccer fan, just didn't grow up with
Dec 12, 2021, 9:19 PM
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Thanks for the connection Jeff -- great memories from 1979-84 time on campus and thereafter! Soccer was a great watch in those days along with men's/women's tennis, football and hoops!
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a Bob Fulton anecdote
Dec 12, 2021, 9:51 PM
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So I live in the midlands and ran into Bob Fulton when he was still with us. Got to talking to him and he found out I was a Clemson alum and listened to Jim on the radio when I was growing up. Fulton was effusive about your dad and said not only did he represent the best of Clemson nation but the best in his profession across the country. The respect he had for Jim was overflowing in that conversation.
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Dad and Bob were extremely close
Dec 12, 2021, 10:02 PM
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when dad died the idea came to me to have Bob speak at the funeral. Then it was like, wait a minute, let's have him call a drive on the radio at the game that Saturday. Bob had been retired 10 years by that point and was nervous as all get out about it. Whitehurst took the team right down the field for a TD. I still remember all the fans in front of the radio booth not watching the game, but rather Bob in the booth call a Clemson game with grins on their faces and radios on.
Dad honored Bob at his last game in 1994 at the game in Clemson at halftime. Turns out due to that Bob missed calling that screwy kickoff return they had that year.
Bob returned the favor after dad died in 2003. That was 63-17 ??
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^^ believe I’d heard that story told by you B/4 good Sir..
Dec 12, 2021, 10:36 PM
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but this one a bit more expanded and still one to grin about and savor for the ages. Thank you!
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That week after he died will always be a cherished
Dec 12, 2021, 10:48 PM
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memory. Just an incredible outpouring of love from Tiger Nation. We literally received tens of thousands of messages from fans across the country. The university did everything we asked. I joke I ran the school for that week. That Saturday game was just a true life celebration. Exactly has he would have wanted it. Some tears, but mostly, celebrating a life well lived. He truly considered himself blessed to have wound up at Ckemson
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Was freshman @ Clemson the year your dad passed
Dec 13, 2021, 12:24 AM
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the tribute during the MTSU game that year was pretty special. Wish had more memories of your dad's radio calls but being able to find the radio call of games was always & still is a pain where I live.
I remember who you are now b/c we got to meet once before back when you were preaching in Chesterfield. Hope everything is going well with you & ministry.
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Really? Was wondering if the Thompson Creek
Dec 13, 2021, 1:31 AM
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Handle was the Chesterfiel county Creek ?? we made some good friends up there. To many done passed on. I miss living in the country. Hoping whenever we move next time it's out if the city for sure. And I remember how hard it was to find games on the radio up there, lol. I used to listen on a station out of Sumter.
We're doing well. Likely transitioning out of here over the next year.
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what i loved about your dad on the radio
Dec 12, 2021, 10:44 PM
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we never had a sack -- it was always a "quarterback keeper"
at least that's how I want to remember it.
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Re: Never been a soccer fan, just didn't grow up with
Dec 12, 2021, 11:23 PM
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Loved your dad. When I would be beside the ole stereo floor model console listing to Clemson football , the way Jim would call the game was like you were there. You could see it in your mind. I will always remember how he called a field goal. “ we are awaiting the snap, the spot, his kick is up and his kick isssssss Good !!! Ariri hits a 51 yarder with 3 minutes and 12 seconds to go before the half. So with a timeout on the field , the score Clemson 24 ……..insert opponent here 0”
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You got the FG call down for sure, lol
Dec 12, 2021, 11:33 PM
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The best was Treadwell at Jawja though. The female you here shrieking in the background is Jane Robelot. His gooood there lasted as long as the iiiiiisssss
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Re: You got the FG call down for sure, lol
Dec 13, 2021, 5:39 AM
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I do remember Jane as well. Dang not quite 5-0 yet but feeling old lol. Those days were awesome!
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Re: You got the FG call down for sure, lol
Dec 13, 2021, 7:00 AM
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I meant 50 lol.
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Re: Never been a soccer fan, just didn't grow up with
Dec 13, 2021, 6:00 AM
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A few sad Clemson memories: your dad passing, Clemson getting rid of Ford, and Barnes leaving for Texas??. Would have loved to hear what your dad had to say about Ford leaving.
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He felt pretty much like everyone else
Dec 13, 2021, 7:06 AM
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That Max Lennon didn't like the power Danny had and took advantage of the conflict.
One thing dad did was support the coaches, that's why they trusted him. Dad taught Danny a lot about dealing with the media, especially early in Danny's career when Danny didn't know much. They were professional friends. But when Hatfield became the coach, he supported him. It really upset him how some fans treated Hatfield. Not that they didn't like the losing, but the vicious attacks. All Ken did was take a better job and learn the hard way don't replace a legend.
He was close to a lot of coaches, mostly the ones who really came under fire like Tommy West, Larry Shyatt as he became a confidant. But also he and Bill Wilhelm loved each other. A lot of the hoops coaches. Bobby Robert's, Bill Foster, even Tates. The guy that Stumped him was Barnes. He loved Rick. That move shocked him as much as any.
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Re: He felt pretty much like everyone else
Dec 13, 2021, 12:08 PM
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Interesting read. That was a hard and difficult fall Clemson fans experienced after Ford left.
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Thanks for sharing the memories of your Dad
Dec 13, 2021, 6:40 AM
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He is still remembered fondly by us older Tigers! My Dad always listened to him on the radio, even at Death Valley. He was truly the Voice of the Tigers.
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Re: Never been a soccer fan, just didn't grow up with
Dec 13, 2021, 6:41 AM
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Great story. Sweet memory.
Some of us were bopping around then ( though with a little more spring in our step).
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Great story, thanks for sharing.***
Dec 13, 2021, 7:01 AM
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Dec 13, 2021, 11:34 AM
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I have very little soccer experience. But I do know that it takes an incredible skill set and unbelievable stamina to play the game. I watched some amazing feats of athleticism during the recap video.
Congratulations to you Tiger champions. You've made us proud in a year when we needed to celebrate. Thank you.
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Re: Never been a soccer fan, just didn't grow up with
Dec 13, 2021, 12:13 PM
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Best shape I was ever in in my life. As you get more experienced you learn to play your position which is still a ton of running but better than it was when I was really young. Kids just all chase the ball. It’s hilarious to watch but they got to start somewhere.
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When my boy was five, playing rec soccer for the
Dec 14, 2021, 2:11 AM
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first time, his mom called it beagle ball, because she thought it looked like 18 beagles chasing a rabbit!
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