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Eulogy for my blackberry who went swimming in a toilet last night.

Posted by zackbelow on Wednesday July 04, 2012 @06:11PM
from the self-post dept.

It died. Kind of sad but fitting ending to an era of blackberrying. He was a laggy little bitch most of his life. The past few years he was such a downer. Sometimes I beat him and said horrible things directly to his face. We took a lot of great pictures together, some of which were NSFW. He listened to me when I was talking but would inexplicably cut me off during the middle of our...

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