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Koohii stories:

1) [dingomick] 19-12-2007(401): The hunter's boast: I say, it was a "big one", but the snare broke and it got away. (credit to many others before).

2) [rtkrtk] 15-1-2008(65): A dog owner boasts about how obedient, not how smart, his Saint Bernard dog is. "Why, my dog will even walk right into a trap if I tell him to. Watch!" With a single word, "go!", his dog obediently runs into a snare trap hanging from the ceiling. In a flash, the dog is netted tightly and swinging from the ceiling. Don't forget the ceiling!

3) [ezmoreldo] 14-4-2008(16): When you boast too much, your words cause your head to become so big it gets snared on the ceiling.

4) [Wosret] 10-9-2008(10): His large boastful words snared no one.

5) [theasianpleaser] 26-11-2008(8): I'm usually boasting when I say, "Yep, my big one usually snares the ladies." If only it were true…

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