"Where did dirt go when canal was dug?" Disgusted father-in-law: "I have eaten half and your father half, to have such a fool son-in-law."

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"Where did dirt go when canal was dug?" Disgusted father-in-law: "I have eaten half and your father half, to have such a fool son-in-law."

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever verbal retorts (repartee). · Officiousness or foolish questions rebuked. · view the constellation · filed as J1309.3

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IndiaThompson-Balys.

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