Then we head to simpler times, when disputes were settled not with messy court cases, but with swords through vital organs. It’s the swashbucklers, the original kings of swag. They too would remind the GIF that they’ve been in the OED for a long time. And that they have a ton of movies based on them.
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Articles under discussion this week: Almost Being There: Why the Future of Space Exploration Is Not What You Think GIF Named ‘Word of the Year’ by Oxford Dictionaries
