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The upshot is a whopper of an ending that is as silly as it is satisfying.
Not an easy task, as each family whopper is more despicable than the last.
Well, that is a whopper.
I can only presume that it is based on the notion that if one tells a big enough whopper, and tells it often enough, no one will notice it.
After five years of huge tax increases, we get the whopper tax increase.
Prior to that the rules governing combination of before/after methods and so-called whoppers methods (around) was fixed, and the compiler just generated the code for that.
His fantastic accounts are in fact, outright lies, or whoppers.
Whoppers were first sold unwrapped, two pieces for one cent.