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I told her that i can't be doing with the wonder part of these trips, but she said it should be the icing on the cake... i've never liked wedding cake due to the amount of icing, but then imagine a wedding cake without it; just a dark, stodgy, horrible dry sponge. the icing covers up the mess, and that's how i feel about most of the wonders. they use them to get people to visit a place that you probably wouldn't think about visiting.
-Karl Pilkington
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I Told Her That I Can't Be

Karl Pilkington
I told her that i can't be doing with the wonder part of these trips, but she said it should be the icing on the cake... i've never liked wedding cake due to the amount of icing, but then imagine a wedding cake without it; just a dark, stodgy, horrible dry sponge. the icing covers up the mess, and that's how i feel about most of the wonders. they use them to get people to visit a place that you probably wouldn't think about visiting.
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