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Urban legends, ala Jan Harold Brunvand.
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Starving people refuse to eat food aid
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In article <5ca51016-0335-4a9a-b849-6373a eac4...@b36g2000prf.googlegrou ps.com>, ...Mushroom were thought to be plants when I was in High School, so the usage stuck.
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Starving people refuse to eat food aid
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On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:34:35 -0800, Kurt Busiek <k...@busiek.com> wrote: ...On the other hand, butter beans, which are fully ripened and dried lima beans, are really good. I like to heat up a can, with a little real butter, and pour the beans and juice onto a slice of sourdough bread, adding salt and black pepper. I suspect this, with regular... more »
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Starving people refuse to eat food aid
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On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:05:42 GMT in alt.folklore.urban, djhe...@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote, ...Last time I saw one was at Foster's Freeze. If you can find one of those.
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Starving people refuse to eat food aid
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In article <he40m4$fs...@news.eternal-sep tember.org>, ...I think I wasn't convinced until about 2002. Turning over a big state like Texas to a foreign power is not done on a whim or indeed without the greatest of justification.
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1000 words for camel
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An episode of Cash Cab that I recently watched claimed that Arabic has 1000 words for camel. This seemed a bit unbelievable, so I googled a bit and found the only credible datum is that Somalian has 46 words for camel. But there are claims that Arabic has as many as 5744, so I guess Cash Cab's claim of 1000 could have been worse. And I believe the... more »
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