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" Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted. "
Fred Allen
Puns
Good
Hanging
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" A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done. "
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You
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Orange
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Done
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Bad
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Race
Back
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First
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