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  He took a seat next to a hulking bruiser of a man who happened to be the heavyweight champion of the world....
• There's a man deeply in debt, see, and he takes the money he has left and goes to Monte Carlo to try to recoup at the roulette tables.
  Won a little, lost a lot, and was down to his last franc....
• One fine day, the bus driver went to the bus garage, started his bus, and drove off along the route.
  No problems for the first few stops -- a few people got on, a few got off, and things went generally well....
• Dave: [in a wooden voice] Represented on this next float is Roger Myers Sr.
  who founded his company in 1921, and struck it big when he teamed up a mouse named Itchy with a cat named Scratchy....
• Once upon a time, there was a fisherman who lived by a great river.
  One day, after a hard day's fishing, he hooked what seemed to him to be the biggest, strongest fish he had ever caught....
• Oh, he [a big dog] hunts with papa," she said. "He says Don Carlos [the dog] is good for almost every kind of game.
  He went duck hunting one time and did real well at it....
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  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
• WHY GOD WILL NEVER GET TENURE AT ANY UNIVERSITY 1. Only published one book.
  2. It was in Hebrew. 3. It had no references. 4. He did not publish it in referenced journals....
• As the ticket inspector on the train approached, Edward Nye told his friend, the poet James Whitcomb Riley, to get under the seat as he only had one ticket.
  Riley was reluctant to follow his friend's request but eventually did so to avoid any trouble....