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 The Shed | Murphy Simmonds | Tue 2 March 2010
80 per cent of the web is flesh coloured. We can't remember where we heard that statistic - probably our own heads - but it tells us that most of the data pinging across the intertubes is filth. Crazy, eh? We wouldn't know. The rudest thing we've ever seen is a drawing of a bra that we did ourselves just now. In fact, you'll have to excuse us for 15 minutes.
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