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by smacktoward 3105 days ago
In fairness, nothing ruins Christmas faster than the kids stumbling across the nuclear missile submarine you bought them.
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I'll never forget the scale model of one I found under the tree Christmas morning back in Florida not long after the Cuban missile crisis.

Naturally in school we were rehearsing in case of a strike but very few fallout shelters existed so we improved our response time for getting in position safely underneath our desks.