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*'''Playing with matches''': Death (human combustion).
*'''Playing with matches''': Death (human combustion).
*'''Casual racism''': Being compulsorily dyed black by a bearded giant.
*'''Casual racism''': Being compulsorily dyed black by a bearded giant.
[[File:StruwwelRabbit.jpg|thumb|cretinous hunter, it must be said.]]
*'''Hunting''': Your quarry turns the tables and you find yourself, your spouse and her coffee cup being shot at by a bespectacled rabbit. (Rabbit's own child suffers collateral damage). In fairness fairly credulous hunter allowing himself to be overpowered and outfoxed by a rabbit.
*'''Hunting''': Your quarry turns the tables and you find yourself, your spouse and her coffee cup being shot at by a bespectacled rabbit. (Rabbit's own child suffers collateral damage). In fairness fairly credulous hunter allowing himself to be overpowered and outfoxed by a rabbit.
*'''Thumb sucking''': Forcible amputation of thumbs by large man in red trousers with giant shears.
*'''Thumb sucking''': Forcible amputation of thumbs by large man in red trousers with giant shears.