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Aug 4
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The Dating Game, Great White Edition

Lexicon Valley
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Play along and guess the correct chronological order of the following phrases: Great White Hope, Great White Shark and Great White Way. And check out our other *great* episodes: The Amazing Great: Good is no longer good enough. Everyone is awesome, superlative or great. The G.O.A.T.: An aggrandizing acronym that was seeded in the 1960s and born decades la ... Show More
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