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'Oh yeah? Give me 50 milliscore reasons why I should stop.'

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[โ€“] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could also just be trying to get the right number of syllables for the line. "Four and twenty" is one beat longer than "twenty four."

[โ€“] palordrolap@kbin.run 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe I should have left in the aside I had about artistic license.