This system of teaching the necessary skills for the game has enabled my seven year old to plant pea shooters and sunflowers much faster than zombies can move toward his house.

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Despite all the stories of job losses, the government has so far taken remarkably little flak, the Tories' pea-shooters notwithstanding.

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Pea-shooters are limited to 12in and must not be shared.

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