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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 14:26:34 +0100
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- Subject: Questions
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- What are the Maryknolls?
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- What delicacy do we find if we open a box of milky ways?
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- Going by car from Louisiana to New Mexico via Texas, which area would
- "the Panhandle" refer to?
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- "Indians in heel-worn cowboy boots": what does "heel-worn" mean here?
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- "Blowing up a VC nurse in a spider hole": what is a spider hole?
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- "For some reason they make me think of people cornholing each other":
- people doing what to each other?
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- "A cop on the pad": a corrupt cop?
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- "The three moles by the corner of her mouth were the size of BBs":
- what are BBs?
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- "You never could resist mashing on a guy's oysters": what, if anything,
- does this idiom convey to you?
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- Vick's VapoRub: what revolting product is this?
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- Lum 'n' Abner land: what is the reference?
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- What do you sell when you sell debit insurance?
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