Here's an amusing flash video for your morning: what if, after humans went extinct, alien space probes arrived to survey our civilization…and they arrived in the ruins of Kansas?
I think we need to rename the Bible Belt. It's more like the Dirty Underwear of America — and you know what your grandmother always warned you about getting caught in an accident without clean underwear.
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