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• I owed my friend George $25. For about three weeks I owed it to him.
  The whole time I had the money on me---he didn't know it....
• On the day of his anniversary, Joe was frantically shopping around for a present for his wife.
  He knew what she wanted, a grandfather clock for the living room, but he found the right one almost impossible to find....
• A Southern boy graduates from high school heads north to college, taking the family dog, Old Blue with him, for company.
  He's only been there a few weeks when he gets a call from his girlfriend...
• When I have one foot in the grave I will tell the truth about women.
  I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me, and say, "Do what you like now....
• I was offered a job as a hoodlum and I turned it down cold.
  A thief is anybody who gets out and works for his living, like robbing a bank or breaking into a place and stealing stuff, or kidnapping somebody....
• After the Children of Israel had wandered for thirty-nine years in the wilderness, Ferdinand Feghoot arrived to make sure that they would finally find and enter the Promised Land.
  With him, he brought his favorite robot, faithful old Yewtoo Artoo, to carry his gear and do assorted camp chores....
• Pedro Guerrero was playing third base for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1984 when he made the comment that earns him a place in my Hall of Fame.
  Second baseman Steve Sax was having trouble making his throws....
• aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
• Rubik's cube can be easily pulled apart and put back together again.
  First, >position one side at a diagonal to the others so that you can use a small coin >to prise a corner out....