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Own giant baffles a nation. An introduction is a superstition. One of our great musical compositions was written for a dog. Can you imagine that? Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this is Lindsay McCarry back once more with an amazing array of actual facts with which to entertain you. My cohorts and I will be back in just a minute and a half. So wait for us, will you please?

Promise, here we are again. And to introduce our first choice item, listen to... or man is like the sheep. Find him a leader and blindly he follows, asking nut, wanting nut.

Show him the faults and tell him the true, and he believes not his reason, but the more fanciful untrue. Thus, fake someone who was just a little bitter against man's proclivity to be blinded by sudden flurry of excitement. And the proof? Well, listen to this. In the fall of the year 1869, the inhabitants of the verdant valley of Onondaga were startled when it was announced.

I tell you it's true it happened on the new old farm I saw it with my own eyes Oh, what are you talking about I saw them uncover the giant petrified he was in limestone Huh, and I entered doubt but what he's real why every feature in his face is as plain as any of yours

He's kind of bent over like something killed him before he had a chance to help himself Giant see look here is some kind of a joke. Oh taint a joke I'm telling you that I saw it with my own eyes.

Just like it says in the good book, there were giants in those days, and you ain't gonna doubt that. No, I ain't, but I'm gonna have a look for my chefs. And thus was the discovery of the famous Cardiff Giant, announced to a startled country.

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