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July 19, 2012

Dennis Rodman’s Dad Really Owned His Name

By Dan Amira

We learned today that Dennis Rodman’s long-estranged father, whose actual name is Philander for some reason, had 29 kids by sixteen women. Philander. Also, he runs a restaurant in the Philippines called Rodman’s Rainbow Obamaburger. That concludes the first and only installment of Things to Know About Philander Rodman. 

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