Adios Adidas
Fidel Castro is now wearing a regular shirt rather than an Adidas track suit, which has been his thing for three years. He may in fact not actually be dead.
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1 comments:
Perhaps he has finally decided to reject the imperialist notions that the Adidas brand implies. I say this completely tongue-in-cheek of course, but did make note of the sartorial change in my own review of the news.
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