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World's Biggest Dog?

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Is this the world's biggest dog?

This photo has been making its rounds across the Internet.

So what do you think? Is it photoshopped, or is it real?

Labels: Giant Dogs, Strange Stuff

119 Comments:

It is amazing if it is real...they did a great job with the shadows if it is a photoshop job.

By Anonymous, at 11:27 AM, April 27, 2007
It's a fake. I checked it out on Scope.com (myth buster site) and they said it was photoshoped. Would have been amazing if it were real.

By Anonymous, at 2:54 PM, April 27, 2007
I found the picture on snopes and it says its false.It showed a picture of the real dog,which was over 200 pounds and six feet tall. And the dog's name is Hercules.

By Anonymous, at 3:22 PM, April 27, 2007
it looks real if not they done a good job !!

By Anonymous, at 11:10 AM, April 29, 2007
Actually it is real. You will find it in the latest Guiness Book of Records.

By Anonymous, at 12:57 AM, May 01, 2007
no its not real. Scope.com shows a picture of the "biggest dog" from the Guiness Book of Records and it looks nothing like the dog in the picture.

By Anonymous, at 2:50 PM, May 01, 2007
I've always wondered why people readily accept snopes & other sites as being the gospel truth... How do I know that I believe them??? I'm choosing the fun route: to believe that's one big dog!!!

By Anonymous, at 9:34 PM, May 01, 2007
he can come cath a pig with me imagine him running up to you like a dinosaur

By doony, at 1:00 AM, May 02, 2007
its real u clowns

By doony, at 1:02 AM, May 02, 2007
that is a big A** dog man

By Anonymous, at 9:25 AM, May 03, 2007
Are you lot jealous coz you dont own the dog, just take the photo for what it is a huge dog.

By Anonymous, at 3:00 AM, May 04, 2007
Can't find it in a Guinness search

By Dennis, at 12:25 PM, May 04, 2007
Photoshopped

By Anonymous, at 5:54 PM, May 05, 2007
It's real you noobs. That other dog on that mythbuster site is Kell. They have other pictures of that one on another site.

By Anonymous, at 6:47 AM, May 06, 2007
its not real i even have proof the breeders foundation said so im 11 years old and even i know that so who ever made up this lie needs to get off his high horse and tell the truth about hercules if there even is a hercules

By Anonymous, at 11:38 AM, May 08, 2007
WOW!!!!!! thats HUGE!!!! is it true?!

By Anonymous, at 10:34 AM, May 09, 2007
A horse can weigh can well over 1,000 lbs. and this horse looks about the same weight as the dog who weighs a "mere" 282 lbs.

This horse should break a world record for the lightest horse in regard to his height and girth!

By jugheadandbigethel, at 12:14 AM, May 11, 2007
is it true because it does not look like it at all my dogs are half that size

By dog lover, at 9:34 AM, May 11, 2007
It does look a bit fake, but I think that's what Scope is basing their judgement on. I don't trust Scope, and anyway, it's more fun thinking it's real.

By David, at 2:49 PM, May 13, 2007
fake look at the collar it is a horse one

By Anonymous, at 8:38 PM, May 21, 2007
It's not THAT good a Photoshop job. The top of the dog's head is cut off to be flat. And his feet don't sink into the grass at all, like the horse's and the peoples'.

By Anonymous, at 9:24 AM, May 23, 2007
THATS A BIG MASTIFF!!!!

THAT REALLY IS THE REAL SIZE!!!!

I LOVE DOGS!!!!

I AM THE BIGGEST DOG LOVER IN THE WORLD!!!

By biggest dog lover in the world, at 12:37 PM, May 30, 2007
Dog picture is a Mastini (Neapolitan Mastiff) it is photoshopped. If this picture was authentic, a Mastini this size would be about 400-500 pounds not 280. The real dog is probably 200-210.

By revwad, at 3:27 PM, May 31, 2007
His feet do sink in, u just can't tell from this small pic. That so happens to be the pic
I seen in the Guiness Book. I believe it to be true specially sense CNN has a video.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0106/09/smn.03.html

By Anonymous, at 5:51 AM, June 06, 2007
All other evidence aside… I believe this is a fake picture. If it were real there would be videos of this freak of nature dog, and the owner would be cashing in BIG TIME. But it is a nice job faking it…I mean, everyone on the net has seen it…

By Anonymous, at 11:57 AM, June 08, 2007
It's a real photo but dog is with two very small people and a tiny horse.

By Anonymous, at 6:57 AM, June 12, 2007
I am always looking for cool and abnormal things on the internet especially on youtube but this kinda looks fake it just doesnt look real enough it would be amazing if it was real then id be realy gobsmacked but from what everyone else is sayng it just makes it seem less real.

By Anonymous, at 6:40 AM, June 14, 2007
Its a fake...I saw a video of the real Hercules. He looks nothing like that dog. That dog in the fake pic looks like it weighs 500 lbs.

By loridenn, at 11:20 AM, June 18, 2007
I think it is the cutist thing in the world. Me and my sister do think its real. I have it as my backround.lol

By Anonymous, at 3:35 PM, June 23, 2007
Can you like, Ride on him? If you can, that would be awsome! i do believe it is a real BIG dog.

By Allison, at 9:20 AM, June 25, 2007
Doesn't it make anyone wonder why there aren't many pictures of this dog? Does anyone even know where this picture even came from, or who took it or who the people are? Why would the owner of such a magnificent animal take only two pictures (I've only found two and both are from the same scene, one from the front, one from the rear) and not give any more info? The whole thing is to fishy to be legit. It looks photoshoped, anyway.

By Anonymous, at 9:54 PM, June 25, 2007
very fake. I am a web designer and photoshop images all the time and I can tell by the edges of the dog.

By Anonymous, at 8:04 AM, June 26, 2007
I think this is fake as well, there aren't any back legs to this dog in the picture. But it would make for a great super hero sidekick, wouldn't it?

By Lisa, at 2:38 PM, June 27, 2007
FIRST OF ALL THE OWNER IS A LIAR.THATS NOT A ENGLISH MASTIFF..ENGLISH MASTIFFS DO COME THAT COLOR......THATS A NEO .....CANE CORSO DONT GET THAT BIG...LOOK AN ENGLISH MASTIFF UP!

By Anonymous, at 9:43 PM, June 27, 2007
I believe that that is a pony not a horse and they are(the people)of short stature.I believe it,it is amazing!!!

By Anonymous, at 9:25 AM, June 28, 2007
I think its a mouse that lived to close to chernobyl

By Anonymous, at 1:31 AM, July 03, 2007
IMPOSIBLE I OWN A MASTIFF AND THEY ARE NO SO BIG

By Anonymous, at 12:58 PM, July 10, 2007
I THOUGHT IT WAS MY MOTHER IN LAW,

By Anonymous, at 1:00 PM, July 10, 2007
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=467474&in_page_id=1770

Samson stands 50 inches tall, head to paw (4'2") and on his hind leagues stands 6'5".

He weighs in around 276 pounds.

By Anonymous, at 3:43 PM, July 10, 2007
good pic. big dog 'but for all the ghostbusters out there check out the gravestones in the background to have orbs above

By Anonymous, at 7:23 AM, July 14, 2007
Photoshop makes wonderful fakes.

By Anonymous, at 1:59 AM, July 15, 2007
It's photoshopped just take a look at the guys waist the editor has stuffed up and put grass where it shouldn't be, and also all the blurring around the edges of the dog and people are a dead give away, if it were a real photo the edges would be in focus just like the rest of the picture.

By Anonymous, at 3:03 AM, July 24, 2007
who knows miricles can happen, like the tallest man there can also be the biggest dog

By Anonymous, at 10:53 AM, July 26, 2007
It would be nice to believe that Hercules was real but look at the shadow it's a blob.

By Anonymous, at 10:28 AM, August 06, 2007
That DAMN DOG IS FAKE....they did a bad job at the photo shop.

By Anonymous, at 3:21 PM, August 27, 2007
I am almost 100% certain that is not an English Mastiff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Mastiff , it is a Neapolitan Mastiff (same dog used in the Harry Potter Movies as the pet of Hagrid) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neapolitan_Mastiff

Neapolitan Mastiff’s are set on the books to be a max of 68 KG or 150lbs and maybe even maxing out around the 90KB of 200lbs mark. That dog would be large than that by

For a dog to truly be that physical Size it would have to be around 500 lbs or more, which is just ridicules for a dog to reach., now in about 30 years if people decided to start crossing the Giants to get a large dog of that size we might get a dog to come near the 400lbs mark and maybe even break it.

Who ever photo shopped that picture did a good job I couldn’t tell it was photo shopped until I recognized the dog breed.

My verdict Fake Picture.

By Anonymous, at 2:33 AM, September 08, 2007
Zoom in on it, wheres the whole of it's back right leg? i mean a dog that size is bound to have at least a little bit of his back leg showing...and his head IS too flat to be normal :P That 11 year old is right.

By Anonymous, at 7:43 AM, September 23, 2007
holy crappers!!
that dog is HUGE.
it looks like it'll smash that horse to the ground!!

I'm freakin shocked... kuulio!

By Anonymous, at 12:43 AM, September 30, 2007
:O It's real. Mastiff's have always been known to get that big. It's very deceiving though, as that's a pony.

By Anonymous, at 7:36 AM, October 01, 2007
It is not real!

By van, at 4:14 PM, October 02, 2007
the dog is 100% reall it is not a fake those dogs are really big

By Anonymous, at 1:20 PM, October 09, 2007
im only a teenager and i dont know if it is real but if is its amazing its incredable and simply just huge

By Anonymous, at 10:33 AM, October 16, 2007
hi that dog is amazing I wondered what kind of dog is it and how it get that big .These questions puzzle me and my classmates

Thanks bunches,
Shawnetta Cottrell
From:Elizabethtown high school in Elizabethtown,kentucky

By Anonymous, at 8:00 AM, October 26, 2007
That is a REAL photograph. I thought it was fake and checked several myth sites, but that dog is (I believe) Zamora, the biggest dog alive.

You forget though, that the "horse" is actually just a 13.3 HH pony (very short) and the people are not that tall themselves, so the dog appears collosal in accordance.

But then again, he weighs about 300 LBS, so he is rather big!

By Anonymous, at 3:42 AM, November 11, 2007
holy crap wtf thats fake

By bruce, at 8:14 PM, December 20, 2007
That's not even that big I saw a dog when I was in Vienna, Austria walkin' back from a club at 4:00 am that would have left you crapping your pants it was at least half a foot taller than this dog and it looked like the ginormous version of Beethoven

By Anonymous, at 12:10 PM, December 24, 2007
it is HUGE and how could it be fake if there is a shadow or it doesnt have pixle thingys on the dog so shut it cause its real

By Anonymous, at 4:57 PM, February 04, 2008
It's a fake.
Take a close look at where the grass meets the dog's paws. The pixels have been slightly blened as well as the shadows around the paws,particularly the front paw that is on the ground has no shadow. It has just been feathered into the grass.
Also take a look at the guys feet and the shadow that is near his legs which is casted by the dog. Notice the blur of the grass and how the clone tool has been dragged a little too much, which has created a streaking of the grass. Take a look the shadow it self by the dog. Its mainly one large blur... where are the breaks in the shadow for the legs. There should be because the image is real due to the angle of light (note the horse's shadow)

Narin

By Anonymous, at 7:38 AM, February 24, 2008
I think that the picture is fake. I found another picture that they claimed real and the dog s brown...

By Anonymous, at 4:28 AM, February 25, 2008
it's %100 fake...(Look at the guys right hip. there's a chunk of him missing that was likely covered with a clone or stamp tool. there's grass over the area.(on his hip)

By Anonymous, at 2:30 PM, February 26, 2008
it's fake, the collar is a horse collar and if you look behind the head the bone structures exactly the same!
Trust me i own a horse and a dog and you can tell that it's fake!

By Anonymous, at 10:41 AM, February 28, 2008
has anyonm enoticed that the dog hasnt got hind legs! in my dog which is the same breed you cans ee the back legs if you stand directly infront

By Anonymous, at 10:47 AM, February 28, 2008
this iz one big DOG YO!
and umm who dog iz it!!??

By Anonymous, at 7:47 PM, February 28, 2008
"After faxing veterinary records to the Guinness office in New York, Mr. Flynn was notified that his pooch will be listed as the official Largest Dog in the World unless someone else comes forward.
Hercules' sheer volume may have won him the Largest Dog title, but apparently the Heaviest Dog title still rests with "Kell" who weighed in at 286 (just four lbs. heavier) in August of 1999."
Veterinary records don't lie.

By Anonymous, at 8:43 PM, February 29, 2008
It annoys me how some of you people think its real.. take it from a graphic designer its a fake. my job is to manipulate images and this image has definatly been played with. Give any graphic designer, multimeadia, TV production student or professional this image and they will tell you straight away that it is a fake.. look at the subtle details ppl... shadow, lighting, how dog sits in the background..

By Anonymous, at 6:44 AM, March 05, 2008
561-676-9766 is the Hotline of Mastifs breeders in Palm Beach FL. If a gal name Tonya answers let her know that was a great photoshop sketch... Tonya is also a graphic design artist and has submitted this photo almost 5 years ago. It is a fake any moron can realize this... There is no dog in the world that size!

By Anonymous, at 10:37 AM, March 07, 2008
Fake Fake Fake.....

By Anonymous, at 3:41 AM, March 11, 2008
i can't still believeit!
this is the giantist dog i've ever seen!!!!!!it's so ...... i don't know how describs a big big,very big dog!!it's humungeous!!!bigger than a horse?unbelievable!who couldhave that scary dog as a pet???

By Anonymous, at 1:38 PM, March 30, 2008
did anyone notice the back leg is missing from the photo? there should be a hind leg firmly on the ground behind the front leg that is rasised off the ground, where is it? dogs can't walk with two legs off the ground on the same side of the body. just like a horse can't

By Anonymous, at 5:46 AM, April 23, 2008
Looks to me like the dog was pgotographed at a closer distance than the others - possibly with a wider lense. Just look at the relative size of the head. It must be fake.

By Anonymous, at 12:53 PM, April 29, 2008
FFS i realy hope its real ..... realy wanna see that one the news then and btw it looks LIKE a monster! woot! relay wanna have that dogg at my own place

By Anonymous, at 10:32 AM, May 22, 2008
It looks real but not really that much. S i sort of am on both sides. you usually can tell if things are fake on the picture because it like shows up in this weird way but it doesn't look like it does on this picture so i think it is real

By Anonymous, at 6:44 PM, June 07, 2008
That dog is real, He lives in Summerland Britsh columbia-Canada. He eats 100lbs beef, and 50 lbs goats milk a week. Hes got a 38 inch neck. My friend for 6 years moved to summerland 2 years ago, and is good friends with the owner of the dog. The dogs name is Hercules.

By ashleighbattle, at 1:19 AM, June 09, 2008
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By jordan, at 5:11 PM, June 12, 2008
this dog i so big. like one person said i wish that this would come up on the news that would be awesome. i hop that he has a long happy life

By jordan, at 5:12 PM, June 12, 2008
It is real, ive seen a similar dog near my home. Doubt its the same one as im in Ireland.

By Anonymous, at 10:38 AM, June 30, 2008
It is real, i seen one excatly the same near my home. Must be a spcial breed as im in ireland

By Anonymous, at 10:39 AM, June 30, 2008
my butt smells

By Anonymous, at 12:16 PM, July 02, 2008
Neapolitan Mastiff. they are really big dogs, but they are more big and not tall. and it doesn't have anything to do with being in Ireland.

By Anonymous, at 8:51 PM, July 03, 2008
its real...they had it on the footy show. but that aside it would get smashed in a fight with a regular pit dog. its too big to agile enough and to slow coz of its weight.....id have it though!

By Anonymous, at 2:02 AM, July 07, 2008
Realy its too big like small elephent

By vinay mishra, at 12:15 AM, July 08, 2008
if u think that this is not dog then this is not true becouse this is really too big to belive

By vinay mishra mahasamund, at 12:18 AM, July 08, 2008
Scope Shmope. This can be real. I had a friend that passed away, who bred Neapolitan Mastiffs, his dogs were beautiful. His male weighed 250lbs, it looked like the one in the picture, biggest dog I ever saw,it looked like a tiger to me.
Breeders today are changing the way they look by making them shorter and with to many wrinkles. Read up on the breed and you'll know more about them.

By Anonymous, at 12:08 PM, July 18, 2008
it's fake. it was on snopes.com. i recently learned how to do that to.

By Brittany, at 3:16 PM, July 29, 2008
well it IS a real dog alright but ..its being walked by a midget standing next to his wife whos leading there miniture pony DUH! =D

By Anonymous, at 3:42 PM, August 06, 2008
dude the horse is straight up muscle and the dog is just a fat ass Mutt that's why the horse weighs a lot more then the dog I'm 6 and I figured that out all by my self

By Anonymous, at 10:46 PM, August 14, 2008
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m275/jogi21/random/huge_giant_dog.jpg

Another picture.

By Anonymous, at 4:00 PM, September 28, 2008
That IS a real dog... my grandad had one when he was young... he used to be able to ride him, the dogs name was Gillian. I cant seem to remember its species though!

By Anonymous, at 8:08 AM, October 03, 2008
i would love to believe this is real and i have for quuite a bit but i am sorry to spoil the fun but i dont want to believe it. if you look at the guys right hand, by his right hip you can see this was a bad photoshop job. if this is not true please correct me, i would love to be proven wrong!!

By Anonymous, at 11:39 AM, October 04, 2008
this piceture is actually real

By Anonymous, at 3:23 AM, October 06, 2008
That dog is obviously a Neapolitan Mastiff and they definitely DON'T get that big. It's Photoshoped no doubt, however whomever did it did a good job.

By Anonymous, at 7:17 PM, October 08, 2008
Wow thats obviously photoshopped because the horses shadow is messed up and plus if you look at the people they have like really really skinny shadows they almost have no shadow at all!!!!!!!

By Anonymous, at 4:34 PM, October 13, 2008
FALSE. I was quite taken with this picture at first. Yes, still a very large dog but unfortunately photo shopped. All the other noticeable defects aside(yes, the back leg is completely missing except for his paw and can't possibly be hidden b/c his hind leg would have to have a rather severe bow, causing health problems for the animal) no one seemed to notice just below the dog's left ear. His head seems to be missing quite the chunk. Also if you compare this photo to the other photo (link posted above), note how the man's forearm seems to determine the dog's girth. In the "walking" photo, the man's entire arm (armpit to fingertips) would barely be able to reach around the dog. Also note the length of the dogs legs compared to the man's forearm as well. In the "walking" photo the dog's leg, from elbow to a straightened paw (as in the other photo), would be around the length of the man's entire arm; not just, oh I'd say, roughly 3" longer than the forearm as it actually is. Still a magnificent animal none the less. Oh, and that is NOT a pony. Seems to be a quarter/arab mix.

By Anonymous, at 4:08 AM, October 15, 2008
That dog is real its an english mastiff and they get up to 600 pounds my brother has a female and shes 200 right now and she not even a year old and males get bigger then they do so stop sayin u know because u work and can tell by the edges because its real i've seen these kind of dogs look up english mastiffs and you will see that that dog is real

By Anonymous, at 8:51 AM, October 18, 2008
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/694/dog2pm5.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.desitwist.com/image-corner/biggest-dog-ever-according-guiness-world-records-16769.html&h=266&w=400&sz=26&hl=en&start=13&usg=__zRC53kmWG3Dw6LAMuSGBZa0DoDA=&tbnid=pYMZWnDLLEDhUM:&tbnh=82&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dthe%2Bbiggest%2Bdog%2Bin%2Bthe%2Bworld%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den

go to that webpage and you will see

By Anonymous, at 8:56 AM, October 18, 2008
its real go to http://www.desitwist.com/image-corner/biggest-dog-ever-according-guiness-world-records-16769.html

its an english mastiff and my brother has one so take a look at this site then tell me hes fake

By Anonymous, at 8:58 AM, October 18, 2008
The dog misses his backlegs hehe.

By Anonymous, at 10:33 AM, October 18, 2008
Um... i have an english mastiff and he is not that big and my dog is a VERY big mastiff...

By Anonymous, at 12:17 PM, October 27, 2008
It's a fake - look closely at the right ( your left ) at the man's waistline. See the little extra bit of green showing where his clothing should be. Don't believe me? copy the picture and zoom in, you will see it!!

By Anonymous, at 1:04 PM, October 30, 2008
would you have to be dumb to think that is real
look at the basics do you see any hind legs
i dont you would be able to

By Andrew, at 9:13 PM, November 02, 2008
http://www.desitwist.com/image-corner/biggest-dog-ever-according-guiness-world-records-16769.html

Now say its fake

By Anonymous, at 7:44 AM, November 06, 2008
Looks to me like a Neapolitan Mastiff. Pretty sure it's real.

By Anonymous, at 6:35 PM, November 09, 2008
it has to be doctored...look at the mans hand... if the dog was real and at that height....the dog would cast its shadow over the mans hand....dead givaway

By Anonymous, at 8:26 PM, November 13, 2008
I Know it is a photoshop job. You can tell it is an up close picture of a dog.

By Anonymous, at 5:44 AM, November 14, 2008
for the idiots that believe it, your stupid...I can take one good look at this picture and tell you ... THIS IS FAKE DUMB ASS

By Anonymous, at 9:00 AM, November 24, 2008
I would rather just believe this is the worlds biggest dog (vs. beating it into the ground. He looks cute...I would have done anything to have a doggy this big when I was a kid (no disrespect to my Sheba)!

By Anonymous, at 12:22 PM, December 12, 2008
Also...why are you people so defensive? Are you going to lose a testicle if someone wants to believe this is real?

By Anonymous, at 12:23 PM, December 12, 2008
NOT REAL IF IT WERE THEY WOULD PRODUCE MORE PITCURES OF IT

By Anonymous, at 9:17 AM, January 13, 2009
AWESOME! You bought and let it grow that big for me right!JOKE!Haha! Can i ask question what kind of dog is that?

By Anonymous, at 2:22 AM, January 19, 2009
its real fools. fo shoo. its too real looking to not be.

By Anonymous, at 9:58 AM, January 20, 2009
hey megan whats up?! haha its real fools! wowzuhh um yeaah this dog is real! all yall who dont belive it is real.... I HATE YOU! jk i dont even know you.

By Anonymous, at 10:01 AM, January 20, 2009
Jeez, for thoes of you that think that this is real, The Easter Bunny will be in town tomorrow!!

By Anonymous, at 2:51 PM, January 20, 2009
OK it really fucken bugs me that people are so quick to say its fake just because their jealous that their dog would get eaten by it. Go to this site and it will show 2 other pics besides this one

http://www.desitwist.com/image-corner/biggest-dog-ever-according-guiness-world-records-16769.html

By Anonymous, at 8:44 PM, January 23, 2009
No guys! It is PHOTOSHOPPED!
HERE'S WHY: Look at the guy's shirt on the lower right! there is - like -a hole! It was photoshopped.

By Keymuh, at 4:52 PM, January 28, 2009
The size of the dog isn't real, picture wise. The size of the real life dog is very real, though. Zorba, also an English Mastiff, sized at 343 lbs, 8 foot 3 inches, from head to tail.

By Anonymous, at 11:18 AM, February 06, 2009
ACTUALLY IT DOESN'T LOOK AT ALL A BIT REAL - AND THOSE PEOPLE ARE REGUALAR SIZE PEOPLE (THE HORSE WALKS EVEN WITH THEM!!!).

AND THE DOG'S PAWS DON'T LOOK LIKE DOG PAWS....

CREATURE FEATURE I'D SAY!

CHARLOTTE, NC - 2009

By Anonymous, at 10:17 AM, February 09, 2009
If this is true, that's an amazing dog that God made, but if it is fake, I'm not sure why anyone would waist their time doing all of that if it's not even true. I'm not really sure if it's true or false, but who am I to be the judge?

By Anonymous, at 7:05 PM, February 14, 2009
hey i wanted to know if u had more pics of the dog and mayb its name...thank you..p.s wat kind of dog is it?my email is lovinjoe4eva@aim.com...your dog is gorgous..

By Anonymous, at 11:21 PM, February 14, 2009
it's not real. there's no shadow on the dog, it was photoshopped.

By Anonymous, at 8:05 PM, February 15, 2009

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