From a book I recently read:
"There in the parking lot was this lumbering big guy with a mustache in a casual suit."
Ha ha!
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4 comments:
That sounds like an impressive mustache.
Maybe Stache was telling Big Guy that the suit was worse than his normal hair shirt. Too bad the criminals' sentences were muffled.
In the parking lot was this lumbering mustachioed big guy wearing a casual suit.
Make sure you don't give your mustache more credit than is due!
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