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Originally posted by Great Big Stees
A: Cut the fat off before putting the pork in the slow cooker and fry it separately later on in the cooking process...well maybe.

Q: Does "Socialism" really work?
A. Only in a Utopia.

Q. Ulysses S. Grant was once fined for speeding, on a horse. Have you ever gone faster than the legal limit, on an animal?

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Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
A. Only in a Utopia.

Q. Ulysses S. Grant was once fined for speeding, on a horse. Have you ever gone faster than the legal limit, on an animal?
A: I do drive a "Mustang" (Ford) so technically yes, I guess.

Q: Will Scotland have another referendum concerning "leaving" Britain?

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Originally posted by Great Big Stees
A: I do drive a "Mustang" (Ford) so technically yes, I guess.

Q: Will Scotland have another referendum concerning "leaving" Britain?
A. Yes. I think the minimum wait is 10 years tho.

Q. Will Quebec have a referendum concerning leaving Canada?

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Originally posted by wolfgang59
A. Yes. I think the minimum wait is 10 years tho.

Q. Will Quebec have a referendum concerning leaving Canada?
A: Like Scotland, it will be a while, but yes.

Q: As a Canadian I am very interested in the "goings on", politically, south of the border. How do you (non Americans), assuming you follow it, feel about the choices they have?

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Originally posted by Great Big Stees
A: Like Scotland, it will be a while, but yes.

Q: As a Canadian I am very interested in the "goings on", politically, south of the border. How do you (non Americans), assuming you follow it, feel about the choices they have?
A. Fearful.

Q. Is the US political system fixable?

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Originally posted by wolfgang59
A. Fearful.

Q. Is the US political system fixable?
A: Ask President Trump.
Q: Do you have a, paper, dictionary?

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Originally posted by Great Big Stees
A: Ask President Trump.
Q: Do you have a, paper, dictionary?
A. Two. English-French and English-German. (Actually not mine but the wife says I can use them!)

Q. Whatever became of "the Paperless Office" aspired to in the eighties?

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Originally posted by wolfgang59
A. Two. English-French and English-German. (Actually not mine but the wife says I can use them!)

Q. Whatever became of "the Paperless Office" aspired to in the eighties?
A. Consigned to the bin, along with the hoola hoop and shoulder pads. (Different decades i know). In a previous job my manager removed all the waste paper baskets from the office saying we had to 'recycle, reduce and re-use.' It wasn't popular and the bins crept back, one by one.

Q. Do insects make good pets?

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Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
A. Consigned to the bin, along with the hoola hoop and shoulder pads. (Different decades i know). In a previous job my manager removed all the waste paper baskets from the office saying we had to 'recycle, reduce and re-use.' It wasn't popular and the bins crept back, one by one.

Q. Do insects make good pets?
A: They are often "itching" to try.

Q: Who here can describe the taste of calves tongue?

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Originally posted by Great Big Stees
A: They are often "itching" to try.

Q: Who here can describe the taste of calves tongue?
A. A calf?

Q. Why do many baulk at eating veal but not lamb?

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Originally posted by wolfgang59
A. A calf?

Q. Why do many baulk at eating veal but not lamb?
A: Because the word "Veal" sounds like a venereal disease.

Q: Have you ever succumbed to temptation or impatience and drunk hand cleansing gel?

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Originally posted by FMF
A: Because the word "Veal" sounds like a venereal disease.

Q: Have you ever succumbed to temptation or impatience and drunk hand cleansing gel?
A. Not that I remember.

Q. Why (in every film) does Tarzan not have a beard?

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Originally posted by wolfgang59
Q. Why (in every film) does Tarzan [b]not have a beard?[/b]
A: That's like asking, why are step-mothers in southeast Asian soap operas invariably wicked and why is this underlined by the application of a severe style of make-up.

Q: Did mouse mats make their inventor rich?

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Originally posted by FMF
A: That's like asking, why are step-mothers in southeast Asian soap operas invariably wicked and why is this underlined by the application of a severe style of make-up.

Q: Did mouse mats make their inventor rich?
A: Engelbart as probably "well off".

Q: Have you ever been in a situation where you "had" to ingest your own urine?

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Originally posted by Great Big Stees
A: Engelbart as probably "well off".

Q: Have you ever been in a situation where you "had" to ingest your own urine?
A. No.

Q. What was your first thought upon awakening from deep sleep this morning?