"How often do you kill your ducks?" Answer: "Only once."
The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever verbal retorts (repartee). · Officiousness or foolish questions rebuked. · view the constellation · filed as J1309.2
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- general England, U.S.: *Baughman.
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