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Old Sparky

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Old Sparky
A generic, ghoulishly facetious name for any electric chair used in capital punishment. See Capital punishment. Cf Hangman's fracture.


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The 1995 FA Cup final must have been one of his best games, when he bullied the supposedly indomitable Mark Hughes for 90 minutes, but he was never quite the same player after a bad injury and, sadly for him, he is often remembered as much for an encounter with Dennis Bergkamp and a bouncing ball as he is for the one with old Sparky at Wembley.
Apparently, without Quebec's "progressive streak," the ROC's natural knuckle-dragging redneck majority would be firing up Old Sparky at home and toppling dictators abroad.
He seems to have done that and looking at him every day and riding beside him, he seems to be his old sparky self again.
 
 
 
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