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Mosja Posted 7 years ago
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the eagle was proving very useful for teasing out those irritating little pieces of flesh that get stuck between your twenty-foot back teeth.

  

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The phrase "twenty-foot back teeth" doesn't seem to make sense - no creature has ever had 20 foot teeth or a jaw 20 feet long. If you omit "twenty-foot," then this could possibly depict an eagle feeding on a large animal carcass.

  • The phrase "twenty-foot back teeth" doesn't seem to make sense - no creature has ever had 20 foot teeth or a jaw 20 feet long.
  • If you omit "twenty-foot," then this could possibly depict an eagle feeding on a large animal carcass.
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The phrase "twenty-foot back teeth" doesn't seem to make sense - no creature has ever had 20 foot teeth or a jaw 20 feet long. If you omit "twenty-foot," then this could possibly depict an eagle feeding on a large animal carcass.

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