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Why did the chicken cross the road? Because he's a goddamn chicken he doesn't know what the **** he's doing

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Thom Yorke
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: October 7
Composer
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Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
Thomas Edward Yorke
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