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For decades, a widespread rumor claimed that one night Uncle Don had inadvertently spoken into an open microphone, saying "We're off? Good, that ought to hold the little bastards." However, this has been debunked as untrue. The rumor was later resurrected in the 1950s, when an audio recording of the
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