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...somehow slighted... Way too much emotional context goin on there! ...but then again, it's all my *fault as I interpreted But I do have the answer as "I gave the answer, didn't I?"

C'mon, just give them another puzzle and I'll promise to stay out for.. say.. oh.. a baker's dozen of d'ohnuts.




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>C'mon, just give them another puzzle and I'll promise to stay out for.. say.. oh.. a baker's dozen of d'ohnuts.

Me too

G'worn!
Pretty please!


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Maybe he'll do it if I promise to stay out...what tsay, tsu?[heart e]


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The new puzzle is embedded in the old:

Who coined the phrase "World Serious"?


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The assertion that something has reached 11 out of 10 on the Nigel Tufnel decibel scale reflects a lack of understanding of the original joke. All the way up is all the way up*. All Mr. Tufnel did was to redefine all the way up as 11 rather than 10. A better metaphor would have been to relate it to an 11 out of 10 on the George Webber Beauty scale except that would lose the reference to noise.

*There's good technical reasons for this that some of you may already understand but which I could go into in boring detail for anyone who would care to ask by PM.


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>Who coined the phrase "World Serious"?

which is, of course, an entire different (and more difficult) bit of trivia than Who made it famous?


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an entire different (and more difficult) bit of trivia

You got that right.


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Hey, Boo-Boo, let's go find us a pickinick basket.


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Teacher, teacher! I know!

Many years ago The World Series was played obscurely; no one knew what teams were playing and no one cared. That all changed when Millard Fillmore Famey entered the National League. This guy was better than Cy Young, but Cy got the ward named after him because he was the first super-pitcher in the major leagues. Famey pitched for 31 years, ending up in a minor league where he was in the bullpen, an ingnominious finish to a sterling career.

So far had he fallen that he retreated into the bottle, the beer bottle anyway. He was sitting one day in the bullpen, pulling on his last beer, when the phone rang. "You're on, Famey," said the coach.

"Coach," replied Famey, "I been dozin' a bit. What's the score and who'm I pitchin agin?"

Turns out it was the bottom of the ninth there were two men on base, and the home team was down by two runs. And Famey was pitching to the top three hitters in the league. Famey knew he was in trouble, so he stuck the last beer in his hip pocket so he could take it directly to the shower with him.

Sure enough, his pessimism was accurate. On seventeen pitches he walked home three runs. As he trudged disconsolately toward the locker room, an opponent noticed the beer bottle.

"My God," he said, "is a that a beer in his pocket?"

The opposing coach said, "Son, not only is it a beer, it's the beer that made Mil Famey walk us."





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And...

"Sir, can I ask you a question?"
"Sure Timmy. What is it?"
"It's an interrogative statement, used to test knowledge, but that's not important right now."


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