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I'm banned from Middlebrook elementary for telling dirty jokes to the janitor. The janitor! He cleans up dirt for a living.

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Thom Yorke
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: October 7
Composer
Ecologist
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Thomas Edward Yorke
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