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		setpatchaddress on March 8, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I did not go to jail (2014) You can't shave if you commit a crime? Is this a New York colloquialism?

srl on March 8, 2021 [–]

I think it's a maybe-too-clever variation on "look myself in the mirror". I've never heard it before either.

ChrisMarshallNY on March 9, 2021 | [–]

Yup. I'm a bit on the "weird" spectrum. Some of my pithy sayings make Yogi Berra look like Plato.

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