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 — Mythoi

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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.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever verbal retorts (repartee). · Reductio ad absurdum of question or proposal. · view the constellation · filed as J1291.1

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general *Wesselski Arlotto II 252 No. 168.

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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

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Theological questions answered by propounding simple questions in science. Where was God before he made heaven and earth? and the like answered by "Why a louse bite raises a blister, a flee bite raises a swelling, and a gnat bite is unnoticeable?" If you cannot answer such simple questions how can you pry into God's secrets How many priests should one have in one place? How many fox tails will reach to heaven? All depends on the length of the tails "In this sesame flower where is the oil?" "When your mother conceived where were you?"

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