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Weekend at Bernies is fine with me. It's One More Thing.

Armstrong and Getty.

One more thing.

Before we get to that macabre story I just saw this headline

Prince William has resumed his royal duties

For the first time since the announcement of his wife's cancer

Neat

Boy, there are layers of don't give a crap.

I need to penetrate to comment on that story.

Neat. Something that there's a mechanism involved where you, like, have suspended your royal duties and that that is noted by anyone anywhere.

Like, does somebody write that down or something?

And then you resume your royal duties, and then that is a noted occurrence also.

And were the royal duties just entirely undone during that period?

Or was there some Duke who filled in?

How does that work?

Again, I don't care.

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