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  An English sea-captain being asked if he had read "The Exile of Erin," replied...
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  "Why not go to Jupiter?" asked St. Peter. "No, too much gravity, too much stomping around," said God....
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  Are you the foreman around here?" he asked timidly....
• Two battleships assigned to the training squadron had been at sea on maneuvers in heavy weather for several days.
  I was serving on the lead battleship and was on watch on the bridge as night fell....
• A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy.
  The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered...