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Drop the tech, make a friend

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Voicebox

Hello Charlatan! Umm, hello Voicebox.

I would just like to say that I really really really really really really really really really liked the free food and other stuff that was, well currently is still happening, out in the Tory Quad. It was pretty freaking awesome and seeing all the newbies, all the new students, is pretty cool.

So, uh, to the new students, welcome to Carleton, eh? Bye.

BLEEP!

Overheard @ Carleton

Girl: Why do you keep talking to me about strippers, I don’t understand.
Guy: Yo, tonight we’re gonna get smashed and do that Crocodile Dundee thing we were talking about.

Guy 1: We don’t know how big it is! This photo has no scale!
Guy 2: Yeah, they totally need to put it
beside a penis or something.

Girl: They’re not that good!
Guy 1: When you’re making 10,000 cookies in your house by yourself
Guy 2: What kind were they?
Guy 1: Chocolate chip.

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