Why is it that black cow eats green grass, gives white milk and yellow butter? Answer: The same reason blackberries are red when they are green

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Why is it that black cow eats green grass, gives white milk and yellow butter? Answer: The same reason blackberries are red when they are green.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever verbal retorts (repartee). · Reductio ad absurdum of question or proposal. · view the constellation · filed as J1291.1.1

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U.S. Baughman.

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Filed under Black beans, white soup. Question: How can black beans make a white soup? Answer: How can a white whip on the naked flesh make black welts.

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