Person pulls up old oil wells and sells them for post holes after sawing them up into short lengths

Motif

Person pulls up old oil wells and sells them for post holes after sawing them up into short lengths.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies: logical absurdities. · Absurd disregard of the nature of non-material things. · view the constellation · filed as X1761.1

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The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

U.S.*Baughman.

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Filed under Absurd disregard of the nature of holes.

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Lie: people eat the bungholes from barrels

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