A boy, frustrated with all the rules he had to follow, asked his father, “Dad, how soon will I be old enough to do whatever I want?”
The father answered immediately, “I don’t know. Nobody has lived that long yet.”
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Two men are hiking through the woods when one of them cries out, “Snake! Run!”
His companion laughs at him. “Oh, relax. It’s only a baby,” he says. “Don’t you hear the rattle?”
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TEACHER: Jean, what does trickle mean?
JEAN: To run slowly.
TEACHER: good. Annie, what does anecdote mean?
ANNIE: It’s a short, funny tale.
TEACHER: Well done. Now, Rita, give me a sentence with both of these words in it.
RITA: Our dog trickled down the street wagging her anecdote.
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Deciding to eat healthier breakfasts, my brother-in-law declared that oatmeal would now be his cereal of choice.
But after eating his first bowl, he told my sister, “I hope I develop a taste for the stuff. It goes down real rough.”
“Well,” she asked, “how long did you cook it?”
“You’re supposed to cook it?” he said.
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