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Join Cam in Celebrating 20 Years of Fearless Commentary at Good Oil!
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News Briefing: 10 June 2025
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The blond-haired flyer played 85 matches for New Zealand, including 34 tests, while his first-class career comprised 199 first-class games.
The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… percolate (verb): 1a: to cause (a solvent) to pass through a permeable substance (such as a powdered drug) especially for extracting a soluble constituent b: to prepare (coffee) in a percolator 2: to be diffused through : penetrate Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Percolate comes from a
The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse
For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.