When Ted said, "Sven, send ten tents", Sven then said "Ted, send ten cents"; when then Ted sent Sven ten cents, Sven then sent Ted ten tents.
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I'm issuing an open challenge to #242 with:
When Ted said, "Sven, send ten tents", Sven then said "Ted, send ten cents"; when then Ted sent Sven ten cents, Sven then sent Ted ten tents.
nnyaahhh!
When Ted said, "Sven, send ten tents", Sven then said "Ted, send ten cents"; when then Ted sent Sven ten cents, Sven then sent Ted ten tents.
nnyaahhh!
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Stop! Stop! You'll have me in tears!MTGuru wrote:151. "A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out." No, but its acerbic wit can be highly insulting.
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...Because it can stick it's teeth out, instead. That seems more useful, anyway.MTGuru wrote: 151. "A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out."
And now there was no doubt that the trees were really moving - moving in and out through one another as if in a complicated country dance. ('And I suppose,' thought Lucy, 'when trees dance, it must be a very, very country dance indeed.')
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s1m0n wrote:...Because it can stick it's teeth out, instead. That seems more useful, anyway.MTGuru wrote: 151. "A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out."
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254 is wrong in my humble opinion. You sneeze to get the devils out and someone says bless you to stop the devils getting back in. That is much more believable
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Never use a flyswatter when a sledgehammer will do.Joseph E. Smith wrote:Wow, a little research, eh?
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it's just another hole in the wall
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285. One in about 8 million people has progeria, a disease which causes people to grow faster than they age.
That's not what they meant to say.
That's not what they meant to say.
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Googling'll get you there.
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good old fashioned thinking about it will work too.
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Well, that's just exactly it. It's old-fashioned.mutepointe wrote:good old fashioned thinking about it will work too.
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missed again, haven't I?
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"The Straight Dope" dealt with a lot of these, although "the Straight Dope" is not infallible either.
But Number 2, the "fact" that the Heinz "57" ever counted anything, just ain't so.
But Number 2, the "fact" that the Heinz "57" ever counted anything, just ain't so.
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Maybe we can trust Wikipedia over The Straight Dope.Innocent Bystander wrote:"The Straight Dope" dealt with a lot of these, although "the Straight Dope" is not infallible either.
But Number 2, the "fact" that the Heinz "57" ever counted anything, just ain't so.
"Although the company had more than 60 products in 1892, the number 57 was chosen because the numbers "5" and "7" held special significance to Heinz. The number "5" was Henry John Heinz's lucky number and the number "7" was his wife's lucky number."
Why not...
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