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Did you hear about the soilder who bought a camouflage sleeping bag?
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It speaks with a hard tongue, it cannot breathe, for it has no lung. What is it?
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A woman went into a bank to cash an insurance refund check. By mistake the teller gave her dollars for cents and cents for dollars. She put the money in her purse but accidentally dropped a nickel on the floor. When she got home, she found that she had exactly twice the amount of the check she had cashed. She didn’t have any money in her wallet before going to the bank. What was the exact amount of that check?
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A hundred stones are placed, in a straight line, a yard distant from each other. How many yards must a person walk, who undertakes to pick them up, and place them in a basket stationed one yard from the first stone?
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There is a house. One enters it blind and comes out seeing. What is it?
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Untainted, Eternal, Marooned A place where the living will move. A shrine beneath the sun. Greeted by the morning’s crest. Our sanctity, Our rest. For when our day is done. What am I?
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