>>18. Because metal was scarse, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
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>>>Re #18, does that mean that instead of getting an Oscar they got a Woody?
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>>You, sir, may add that one to *your* collection of bon mots <g>
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>Add? Start, you mean.
Well, I just hope you can keep it up <g> (if not I receive hundreds of emails each day offering solutions)
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
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-- T. S. Eliot
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Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
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