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3x-xx-xx ep025 The Martyr To Etiquette

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The makers of X-Laks present strange as it seems. The curtain never falls on the strange drama in this extraordinary world of ours. In every age, people have found strange ways of doing strange things. The strangest of these are gathered and presented to you twice each week.

Presented by the makers of X-Laks who first brought you this chocolateed laxative more than 28 years ago. A brief panorama of those 28 years leaves one a little breathless. We played Ma Zhong, danced to Charleston, took to Kui and 18-day diets, wind-blown bobs and Eugenie hats.

We had companionate marriages, chain letters, fads, fads, even in laxatives, 522 imitators of X-Laks have come and gone. And through all these changing years, the demand for X-Laks has grown and grown, until it is the largest selling laxative in the whole world.

In America alone, more than 46 million boxes were used last year. What a record for one product to achieve, or should we say, what a product to achieve that record? And the reasons for it?

Well, X-Lax is as mild and gentle as any laxative you can take, and yet for all its mildness it is thoroughly and completely effective. Then two, it is so delightful. It tastes like the finest, most delicious chocolate.

If you don't know how pleasant X-laxias, then try it. The next time you need a laxative, it is only 10 cents a box at any drugstore, the martyr to etiquette. Social customs have grown so informal, it seems impossible that there was once a time when two coaches would block an error road all day long, rather than allow one to pass the other.

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