diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index bc8ce7e..fe7f62e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -19,11 +19,11 @@ any number of things together even nested lists and numbers 12345
 ```
 Name    Stmts   Miss  Cover   Missing
 -------------------------------------
-glue       14      0   100%   
+glue       13      0   100%   
 tests      24      0   100%   
 -------------------------------------
-TOTAL      38      0   100%   
+TOTAL      37      0   100%   
 ```
 
 #Protip
-You should probably just use [str.join](https://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#str.join) as this is satire.
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+You should probably just use [str.join](https://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#str.join) as this is satire.
diff --git a/coverage_report.txt b/coverage_report.txt
index 64c6678..814eca0 100644
--- a/coverage_report.txt
+++ b/coverage_report.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Name    Stmts   Miss  Cover   Missing
 -------------------------------------
-glue       14      0   100%   
+glue       13      0   100%   
 tests      24      0   100%   
 -------------------------------------
-TOTAL      38      0   100%   
+TOTAL      37      0   100%   
diff --git a/glue.py b/glue.py
index 7fe4d03..bf0741d 100644
--- a/glue.py
+++ b/glue.py
@@ -21,11 +21,13 @@ def glue(*args, **kwargs):
     kwargs = collections.OrderedDict(
         sorted(kwargs.items(), key=lambda t: t[0]))
 
+    
+    what_to_glue = list(args)
     # Ignore all your keys, because you're doing this wrong anyway
-    what_to_glue = list(args).extend([v for k, v in kwargs.iteritems()])
+    what_to_glue.extend([v for k, v in kwargs.iteritems()])
 
     # flatten crap out of this!
-    what_to_glue = _flatten(what_to_glue)  
+    what_to_glue = _flatten(what_to_glue) 
 
     # safeguard against nonstrings
     return " ".join([str(x) for x in what_to_glue])