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A duel of words and wit between with Patrick Campbell
Hannah Gordon, Charles Gray, Frank Muir, Angela Rippon and Tim Rice.

The Referee is Robert Robinson

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00:00Hello, we come to the last in this present series of Call My Bluff, which means that
00:26among those who will have to go back to work is Patrick Campbell.
00:34To my incredulous amazement, our team was defeated last week, but we return now with redouble
00:45fury to the fray with gentle Hannah Gordon.
00:56And gentlemen, Charles Gray.
01:05And someone else who will be picking up his case of samples again is Frank Muir.
01:11Once again, I have my modestly successful team, the splendid games player, Angela Rippon.
01:31And the equally splendid Tim Rice.
01:33See, old bell, if you work for the last time, yes you do, and you produce as good a word
01:45as we've ever had, riba zuba, or pronounce it any which way, I don't know.
01:50Patrick and his team will define riba zuba three different ways, two are false, one's true,
01:54that's the one that Frank and co will try and pick out.
01:56Patrick, what of it?
01:58The riba zuba, like the Vox Humana, or the diapos, it's a kind of organ stop.
02:07You will not find it on the church organ, because it might frighten the vicar.
02:12But you do get the riba zuba on the cinema organ.
02:17Now, I'd rather have gone out of fashion, the mighty well, let's remember that?
02:21You have riba zuba on it, it produces a kind of marvellous, thick, deep, brassy note.
02:31I would like the end of the world.
02:34I'll let you go from the cinemas, riba zuba.
02:36I've got a minute, yeah, done, thank you.
02:38Had that been Frank, I think he might have given us an example.
02:41I don't want to encourage you.
02:42He could do it yet, probably.
02:43Yeah, he may well, you never know.
02:44Charles Gray.
02:45Well, riba zuba, or riba zuba, is a dead giveaway if you speak Russian,
02:51because, as anyone in the Kremlin will tell you, it means walrus ivory.
02:56And if any of you happen to run across a cossack or the other way around,
03:00you've noticed that the handle, the hilt of their dagger,
03:04would certainly be made of riba zuba, or riba zuba.
03:12Yes.
03:13Very near thing there.
03:15Hannah, Hannah Gordon, your turn.
03:17Come on, Hannah.
03:19I've forgotten how to pronounce it.
03:21Riba zuba is an obsolete camp term for money.
03:26Nowadays, it would be something like bread or lolly, something like that.
03:31According to Mr. Gross's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, published in 1796,
03:36the expression for the riba zuba runs thick,
03:39that meant ostentatious wealth.
03:43That's all.
03:44Well, as Patrick said, it's an organ stomp.
03:49As Charles said, it's ivory from a walrus,
03:53and as Hannah said, it's a slang term, cant term for money.
03:57Frank Muir.
03:57We've got a walrus tusk at home, and we were, by an incredible coincidence, we were given it in Moscow.
04:08With the walrus, or...?
04:09No, it was filleted.
04:10No, it was filleted.
04:12Nobody said riba zuba to us, or whatever else you said approximating to it.
04:18So I can't think that can be it.
04:20Might be, but I don't think so.
04:22The organ stomp or the money.
04:26That quotation from Gross's Dictionary doesn't sound right.
04:31The second half of it.
04:32Otherwise, I would have gone for that.
04:34So it looks like Paddy's...
04:38You wouldn't call it deep, heavy cinema organ.
04:41Yes, you would.
04:42Paddy, it's you.
04:43Organ stomp.
04:44He said it was an organ stomp.
04:45He will now own up.
04:47True or bluff?
04:47Who gave the true definition?
05:00Here it comes.
05:02There it was.
05:03Oh, it was.
05:10You had two pieces of the jigsaw there, Frank, but I suppose you were too...
05:15As well, you might be too suspicious of people like that.
05:18Fugoid is the next word.
05:20Frank, you can go.
05:24Slight sort of lesson in the classics coming now.
05:26Fugoid comes from the Greek word fugue, which refers to a lobster.
05:34The other oid means pertaining to.
05:37Now, if we continue that thought, follow very closely behind me here.
05:42Fugoid means appertaining or in the shape of a lobster, like shrimp or prawn.
05:50Class dismissed.
05:53That's all?
05:55What do you get for this money?
05:57Oh.
05:58It's all pure protein, though.
06:00Tim Rice.
06:00Well, fugoid is a word that you would often hear Egyptologists say.
06:05Fugoid, they would say.
06:07This is because it's an adjective which is of or pertaining to the science of embalming.
06:13When, for example, the tomb of Tutankhamen, which I hope I've pronounced correctly...
06:18Don't look at me, mate.
06:21...was opened in 1922, Tutankhamen's tomb.
06:24He'd been buried for about 3,000 years, and the first word they all said was fugoid.
06:33Terribly reasonable, yes.
06:35Angela, your go.
06:38Fugoid is the word used to describe a certain eccentricity in the flight path of an aircraft,
06:44a sort of fore-and-aft oscillation or a dipping and a rising of the nose of an aircraft when it should be flying
06:52in a nice, straight flight path without any oscillation at all.
06:56And if you've been flying recently and haven't noticed this,
06:58it's because engineers have overcome this by using large control surfaces.
07:05Yes.
07:06Not the weather.
07:07Now, no, what they say is it's lobster-shaped, it's of embalming,
07:14and it's wobbly aircraft in just the way that Angela said.
07:18Patrick.
07:22Absurd to apply a word like fugoid to aeroplanes.
07:26They're far more technical.
07:30But lobster, no, it doesn't have to do with aeroplanes.
07:33Is it?
07:33Lobstery work, Frank?
07:36I don't know.
07:39But if you go it when you open the tomb, that's going a little far.
07:44It's got to be something to do with the shape of a lobster.
07:47Let's see your card.
07:48That was Frank.
07:49Let him see it.
07:50Let him see it.
07:53It's true, isn't it?
07:55Oh, no.
07:55No, nothing whatever to do with a lobster.
08:04Let's hear who gave the true definition of the word.
08:07Fugoid.
08:08Yeah.
08:09Oh, no.
08:10Yep.
08:15Very technical word, meaning the way that a plane would go up and down,
08:18front and back, something like that, wasn't it, Angela?
08:20Except the engineers are very clever these days.
08:23Now, blouser is the next one.
08:25Charles Gray.
08:25Now, a blouser is a man who's hired at the height of the pilchard season
08:30to help the pilchard fishermen spread the nets, dry them,
08:36and take the pilchards to the cannery and put them into tins.
08:40And that's it.
08:41The height of the pilchard season.
08:46Well, well, a phrase I shall remember.
08:48Hannah.
08:50A blouser is a clumsy felt overshoe with a soft leather sole.
08:54What else?
08:56Which you put over another pair of shoes, like a sort of dry galosh.
09:02During the First World War, the government issued many, many thousands of pairs of these blousers
09:06to workers in munition factories so that the hobnailed boots
09:11didn't create any sparks on stone floors.
09:16Very important.
09:17Very important.
09:17Yeah.
09:20Figures.
09:21Patrick.
09:21A blouser is a horse with dirty eating habits.
09:28This poor nag gets its face into a load of hay, briefly chews, around about half the hay falls out.
09:39This might be because the horse is tired of hay, but more often than not,
09:45it means the horse has got an infection of the throat.
09:48He's called a blouser by the vet who comes to see him.
09:56Infections of the throat always were good for a laugh.
09:58I don't know what people...
10:00It's a serious matter.
10:01Yeah, I know, but they used to fall about over those.
10:04Anyway, it's an overshoe.
10:06Fisherman's mate or assistant, that kind of thing.
10:08And a horse which eats sloppy because he's got something wrong with it.
10:12Tim Rice.
10:14Well, we are almost as one on this.
10:15I cannot believe that there will be a word for horses with dirty eating habits,
10:20because all horses have dirty eating habits.
10:23So the word for a horse with dirty eating habits is horse.
10:30I was very impressed by Hannah's shoes, among other things,
10:33but I don't think it's the felt overshoe.
10:35I do think it's Charles' pilchard canning man.
10:41Chap who helps, yeah.
10:42That was indeed Charles Grey.
10:45He'll have to tell us now.
10:46True or bluff?
10:49To Bullseye.
10:50The pilchard catcher's help meat is what it means.
11:04Timmy noggy.
11:05Ah, yes.
11:06One of those endearing words.
11:08Tim Rice.
11:10Well, a timmy noggy,
11:11which is sometimes abbreviated to just Timmy,
11:14as I am sometimes abbreviated to just Timmy.
11:16A little bit more of that, please.
11:18Yes, a homely touch.
11:20Up to a point.
11:21It was 19th century Australianese, or strine,
11:24for a native Aussie,
11:26i.e. not someone like Thompson and Lily,
11:28but somebody of Aboriginal stock
11:30who had adopted European ways and customs.
11:33Many Timmy noggies, or Timmies,
11:35became thus Europeanised
11:36by being taken on as servants
11:38by the residents of convict settlements.
11:41Gareth.
11:42You're in no position to say go off.
11:46What does Angela Rippon say?
11:48She'll tell us.
11:49Timmy noggy is the name given
11:51to the original Cornish pasty.
11:54And it was a rather nice meat pie
11:56made by Cornish tin miners' wives
11:58for them to take down the mines
12:00so that they could eat it in their lunch break.
12:02And if you've ever seen a real Cornish pasty,
12:04you'll see that it has rather a nice thick crust
12:06around the bottom of it.
12:08And that was a sort of finger hold
12:09so that the miners could catch hold
12:11of this little crust around the outside
12:12and eat their Timmy noggy
12:14without getting their dirty hands
12:16all over the nice meat and potato inside.
12:21Hung from it by their very fingers.
12:24Frank.
12:26Timmy noggy, naval term,
12:29except possibly in the Irish Navy.
12:31For a sailor's makeshift solution
12:36for some problem,
12:38for instance, to use a teaspoon
12:41or the captain's left boot for bailing
12:45would be a Tiki Noggy,
12:47or to use braces to tie up the anchor
12:49would be a Tiki Noggy or Timmy noggy,
12:52or a pair of bloomers as a spinnaker.
12:56The list is endless.
12:58They're all called Timmy noggy,
13:00except not all sailors use the word Timmy noggy
13:03for this device.
13:04Some call them a Wim Wom.
13:07What?
13:08Wim Wom.
13:12It's a Europeanised Australian Aboriginal.
13:16It's a Cornish pasty,
13:18and it's a sailor's makeshift.
13:21Charles Gray.
13:21I don't think it can be
13:24any of those naval things
13:26that go in the place of the others,
13:28can it really, Frank?
13:29And I'm not sure about Timmy noggy.
13:30Well, I don't know, Charles.
13:33If you consider...
13:36Let me interrupt you, sir.
13:38Tim's 19th-century Australian son.
13:41I'm going to have a go at Angela's pasty.
13:44I think it might be that.
13:45The one they grabbed hold of.
13:48Yes, Angela?
13:50No, no.
13:59No, wasn't that kind of pasty...
14:02What was it?
14:04A sailor's timmy noggy.
14:05Yeah.
14:05A thing in the week, I think.
14:07Never used it in the Irish Navy, then, Patrick.
14:16We had nothing but the best of equipment there.
14:18We didn't use teaspoons.
14:22But that's what it means in all the...
14:24Well, you know, in the rest of the Navy.
14:26Kinning is the next one.
14:27Hannah Gordon.
14:29Kinning is the cicatricula of your breakfast egg.
14:32The cicatricula of your breakfast egg,
14:41or anybody, or any egg for that matter.
14:43That is the round white spot on the egg yolk bag,
14:48which some weeks before formed the nucleus
14:51of the embryo of the chicken.
14:56While it was still inside the hen.
14:59Is that clear?
15:02Actually, a sonnet, very compact.
15:07Patrick.
15:08On a very, very close attention here,
15:09rather complicated architectural matter.
15:13Uh-huh.
15:15Kinning...
15:16An architectural picture that you often find
15:19on the ends of old houses.
15:22You've referred to my notes for a moment.
15:23Don't go away.
15:25It's the end part of a building
15:27where they've lopped off the gable.
15:30This is called hipping off.
15:32When you've hipped off the gable,
15:35you get a kind of inclined edge.
15:37Don't think we need any more of this rubbish, do you?
15:39This is also...
15:40It's simplified for you.
15:44This is also known as a truncated gable,
15:48or a kinning.
15:52Right.
15:52Right.
15:53Right.
15:53Charles Gray.
15:55Kinning was a cant word used by tramps and beggars
15:58in the 16th century
15:59to describe a boy or a girl
16:01who belonged to a...
16:03who'd been adopted by
16:04their community
16:06in order to teach them,
16:07I'm sorry to say,
16:08to steal.
16:10Like Fagin's lot,
16:12not of a twist.
16:12They were, you know,
16:13they were groomed to pinch pocket,
16:16pickpockets,
16:17and things like that.
16:21Yes.
16:22It's a spot on an egg.
16:24It's the cut-off end of a gable.
16:26And it's a beggar child.
16:29Angela.
16:31Patrick sounds terribly painful.
16:33I don't think it could possibly be that.
16:35Agony, yes.
16:36I can believe it.
16:37No, no, I don't think it's that.
16:38Pinching things.
16:41A school for thieves.
16:42Kinning.
16:43Pinching.
16:44I suppose it could be.
16:48No, I think it must be Hannah.
16:50I don't know why,
16:51but I think it must be Hannah.
16:52She said...
16:53A spot on an egg.
16:53A spot on an egg.
16:54On an egg.
16:55Was it true, Hannah?
16:57Or was it a bluff?
16:59Yes, it's true.
17:00APPLAUSE
17:01It's that little bit that,
17:10if you look closely,
17:11when you next eat a boiled egg,
17:12you'll see it's that little spot.
17:144-1.
17:15And we have prone pot.
17:18Angela Rippon.
17:20Prone pot is a prostate rambler.
17:24And I don't mean somebody with a rucksack on his back
17:26having a quiet zizz in the hedgerows.
17:27It's a plant which grows that way
17:31instead of that way.
17:33That way.
17:34Or that way.
17:35Instead of that way.
17:36Make a note.
17:37To be much more precise.
17:38OK?
17:39To be much more precise.
17:40It's a sort of countryman's word
17:42for the Hypericum or the St John's wort.
17:45A plant which is very good for ground cover.
17:49Yes.
17:50Is it frankly on now?
17:53Rather obvious as soon as I pronounce it.
17:56It's pro-nipot.
18:00Pro-nipot.
18:02From the Latin, naturally.
18:04The Latin prefix pro, meaning before, in front of.
18:09And nipot, the same word as nipotism, really.
18:13It's from nipos, which means a grandson.
18:17So a pro-nipot is a great-grandchild.
18:21Stands to never mind.
18:22Are you sure?
18:28No, but next.
18:31Tim Rice.
18:33No, don't worry, Patrick.
18:34Tim Rice.
18:35Pro-nipot is a very ancient word for a trick or a prank.
18:40I can't really add much to that, except to say that there was a quote,
18:45I believe, from Canterbury Tales by some doxy or other,
18:48who said,
18:49But, Lord, the pretty pro-nipots we mad wenches played.
18:54You just sunk yourself with that one, have you?
18:56Left it alone.
18:58That means a prank.
19:01It means a great-grandson,
19:03or it means the rambling Hypericum.
19:06Anna Gordon.
19:07Huh?
19:08I don't know.
19:10Oh.
19:11He doesn't know.
19:12You're right on your own.
19:13It's a long time since I did any latter,
19:15but I thought nipos was a nephew, is it?
19:18Yes.
19:19Yes, so it's not.
19:19It can't be anything to do with a grandchild if it's a nephew,
19:23so I don't think it's Frank's.
19:27That was awfully silent.
19:32Tim's trick or prank?
19:35I can't...
19:35Pro-nip...
19:36No, how did you pronounce it?
19:37Pro-nipot.
19:38Pro-nipot.
19:40No, I don't think it's that either.
19:42Prone is something to do with on the ground, isn't it, I think?
19:45So I think it's that rambling Hypericum of Angelus.
19:49Yes, she said it.
19:50Rambling plant of some sort, ground cover.
19:53True or bluff?
19:55No, no.
19:56No, it wasn't.
20:05Who gave the true definition?
20:08Reveal all now.
20:09No granddad there.
20:10It's there.
20:11Apparently, sir, it does mean great-grandson.
20:22It does?
20:22Oh.
20:23There you are.
20:235-1.
20:24Goodness me.
20:25Chessie, we have Patrick.
20:28Chessie must be blindingly obvious to anyone with a mind the size of a pin.
20:34simply means being very good at chess.
20:41If my feet were handcuffed together,
20:48and a lead weight hung round my neck,
20:50and I was sunk into eight fathoms of water,
20:54and I check-meated you playing chess against you in two moves from there,
20:57I could be called a very, very Chessie player.
21:01And will be in the future.
21:05Charles Gray.
21:07Chessie's a refined form of civet
21:09that's got from that musky smell
21:12that's obtained from the rear end of civet cats.
21:17And you might like to make a note
21:19that John Bunyan, of all people,
21:21regularly soused himself in Chessie
21:25during his incarceration in Bedford Jail.
21:30What?
21:30Why?
21:32Why do you do that?
21:33A lot of cats about, I suppose.
21:35Hannah.
21:37A Chessie.
21:41Is...
21:42Would you laugh at me?
21:43Get on with it.
21:44You took me off.
21:46A Chessie is something which every household
21:47should have in its medicine cabinet
21:49in the first aid compartment.
21:51It's a double bandage
21:53which is used for supporting the chin
21:56if you dislocate your jaw.
21:59And it's very complicated to describe this.
22:02It's easier just to tell you
22:03that it is a double bandage
22:04for a dislocated jaw.
22:07So that's what it is.
22:08They say it's another word for civet,
22:11another word for being very good at...
22:13well, one word for the words
22:14being very good at chess
22:15and another word for bandage,
22:18one that goes round your jaw.
22:20Frank.
22:22You could beat me
22:24with both your ears
22:26tied below your elbows at chess
22:28because I can't play it.
22:31I can't either.
22:33But I'm below the water.
22:35Mind you, I'm pretty drafty.
22:36I wonder whether...
22:38I don't know.
22:39Next, please.
22:42The thing of poor old Bunyan
22:44dousing himself
22:45with the backsides of cats
22:48is a terrifying sort.
22:50Quite new.
22:52Double bandage
22:54for supporting chins
22:56when there was...
22:56A well-known piece of equipment
22:59in our medicine cabinets
23:00is usually referred to at the chemists
23:01as a double bandage
23:02for supporting chins.
23:04It certainly wouldn't have a special name.
23:06So, therefore,
23:07I think it's Patrick.
23:10Yes, he said it was being good at chess,
23:12didn't he?
23:12Yes.
23:13True or bluff, Patrick?
23:17There's something very odd about this.
23:28It does mean what it says, you know.
23:30Chessy, of chess.
23:32Very good.
23:32Very chess-worthy.
23:33That kind of thing.
23:34Sometimes the obvious definition
23:35on this game
23:36is the real one.
23:38So, then we come to
23:39Proca and Frank Muir.
23:43Proca, roughly speaking,
23:46is a wig-maker's labourer.
23:50You see, you've got...
23:52And it's an anglicised French word.
23:55You've got your wig-maker himself
23:56who actually cons the customer
24:00into choosing the expensive long-coloured one.
24:03And it was the labourer
24:05who had to actually stitch
24:06the strands of hair
24:10onto the curious shape
24:13but a net, which was the poke.
24:16Never.
24:17Never, ever.
24:19Or, I'm a liar.
24:20Yep.
24:24Tim.
24:24Well, Proca is beer.
24:26Not B-I-E-E-R as in funerals
24:28but B-E-E-R as in drink.
24:31And it's beer that's just about on the turn
24:33that's perhaps slightly over-fermented
24:35due to overexposure to the air.
24:38It was also once known as penny Proca
24:40because it was cheap
24:41and also as shower trough
24:43because it was considered only fit for pigs.
24:48Mm-hmm.
24:49Angela's turn.
24:51A Proca is a piece of metal
24:53usually about a yard long.
24:56And in rather upper-class homes
24:58you would find it in the drawing room
25:00for prodding at
25:02or proking at the fire.
25:05In other words,
25:05it's what you or I
25:07or normal civilised people
25:09might call a Poker.
25:11But they called it a Proca.
25:14Yes.
25:15Well, it's sour beer,
25:17a Wigmaker's assistant
25:19or a Poker.
25:22Patrick.
25:23I think first of all
25:24certain people ought to go back
25:26to newsreading
25:26where they weren't doing any harm.
25:32It isn't Old Bear
25:34and it isn't a Wigmaker's labourer
25:35it's a Proca.
25:38What?
25:39It's a Proca.
25:40It's a newsreader's word.
25:42Let's see it, girl, quickly.
25:43No, the Proca is a Poker.
25:44Oh, no!
25:47You said that with such decision.
25:56I knew it.
25:57You knew it.
25:58I didn't know it.
25:58No.
25:59She's kind of older like all the time.
26:00Yeah, that's right.
26:01I only get names, generally.
26:03Poker is a Proca.
26:05And we come to our last word,
26:07Gullop,
26:08and Charles Gray defines it for us.
26:10Well, um,
26:12Gullop
26:12is a very
26:13anti-social verb
26:16and I'm
26:16I'm sorry to bring it up
26:18but it simply means
26:19to belch.
26:22Ah, ah, ah.
26:23Ah, ah.
26:24There's a pun lurking there
26:26somewhere, isn't there?
26:27I know.
26:27Hannah, your turn.
26:29It's a verb,
26:30Gullop,
26:30and it describes the gait
26:31of an exceptionally
26:32long-limbed horse.
26:35That means it can
26:35to walk
26:36or to counter
26:36or to gallop.
26:38And it does so
26:38with a kind of
26:39rolling corkscrew
26:40movement.
26:43It does sometimes.
26:45It does sometimes.
26:47Yeah.
26:48Now, Patrick,
26:49I think it's your go.
26:50A gallop
26:51is a tool
26:52used by
26:52sculptors.
26:54Oh, that one.
26:58It's a kind of
26:59spoon-shaped
27:00chisely thing
27:02making
27:04little holes
27:07in the picket
27:08that he's making
27:08like, for instance,
27:10with a human navel.
27:15You make a navel
27:16with a gullop.
27:20So you say
27:21it's a sculptor's chisel
27:22for use in
27:23particular circumstances.
27:25It's the way
27:25a horse gallops
27:27along,
27:27it's got a
27:28corkscrew motion
27:28and sometimes
27:29falls over,
27:30as Hannah's
27:30kind enough to add.
27:32And, yes,
27:34to belch.
27:35Tim Rice,
27:36your choice.
27:37Well, there's a
27:38certain amount
27:38of controversy
27:39or controversy
27:40on our side.
27:41Good.
27:41But between us,
27:43we have eliminated
27:43Patrick.
27:45Or rather,
27:45we have eliminated
27:46his sculptor's tool.
27:47We don't believe
27:48it's that.
27:50I was tempted
27:51by Hannah's
27:52horse
27:52clip-clopping along,
27:54but I've been
27:55overruled by
27:56horse experts
27:56on our side.
27:58Which one
27:58is the horse
27:59expert on that
27:59side?
28:03I'm just covering
28:04myself in case
28:05I'm wrong.
28:08So I'm going
28:09to choose
28:10Charles's belch.
28:13Charles,
28:14your belch
28:15has been chosen,
28:16sir.
28:16True or bluff?
28:17It's a bull
28:20line!
28:21Oh!
28:32It certainly does
28:33mean that.
28:34It means that.
28:36And with...
28:36Oh, it's a very
28:37dramatic score
28:38on which to end
28:39our programme
28:40and indeed
28:40our little series.
28:41And so,
28:42score standing
28:43at 7-2,
28:43no question about it.
28:45Is there, Frank?
28:46You've won!
28:47Yes?
28:47Perhaps that last
28:48question will
28:48earn us a repeat.
28:57I'm going to get
28:58you to say that
28:58again, Frank,
28:59unless I'm blamed
29:00for it.
29:00Just say it again,
29:01will you?
29:01That last question?
29:02I said I only
29:03hope that last
29:03question earned
29:04us a repeat.
29:05Ah!
29:08How do I mean?
29:10How do you mean?
29:11Well, on that
29:12note, if that's
29:13what you can call it,
29:14we leave the
29:16corpses to slumber
29:17peacefully for a
29:18while in the
29:18Oxford English
29:19Dictionary while
29:20we take our
29:20farewells,
29:21beginning with
29:21Charles Gray.
29:26Tim Rice.
29:30Anna Gordon.
29:33Anne to the
29:34Rippon.
29:36Patrick Kemp.
29:40Frank Muir.
29:41G
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