Evil Waiter Will Receive an Unholy Tip!

I've got a silly pop-culture post planned, but we'll put that off for a moment, because this is the 666th post to this blog, according to the counter on Movable Type. That would appear to demand something evil, so here you go:

Behold the Evil! Evil!

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