The first real talking machine, in which no improvement has ever been
made, was made out of a rib.
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John Barleycorn may have been officially dead for a number of years, but
his funeral expenses still keep piling up.
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Grandpa says that “skirt dances” never will be as popular as the shimmy
until the girls start wearing skirts again.
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Lips that touch a cigaroot will never park beneath my snoot.—Ethel
Worrymore.
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“That can be seen from both sides,” said the fly as he left his mark on a
hall of pane.
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