If a joke is good, and you tell it well, then here's a helpful suggestion: / Don't insult your listener after it's told -- don't follow it with this two-word question.
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If a joke is good, and you tell it well, then here's a helpful suggestion: / Don't insult your listener after it's told -- don't follow it with this two-word question.
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A miniature version of a mountain. Heck - a miniature version of a hill! / You likely won't see a carafe atop it. But a pitcher? Well, maybe you will.
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If you keep things "this", you hold them off; you keep them safely away. / It's also a phrase that could well describe both Tampa and Baltimore, say.
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It's a letter of the alphabet Greek. (It's not sigma or tau; choose another.) / Perhaps it's what a toddler says when he sees his mother's mother.
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In a sense, it's a handheld thing -- the hand is its "happy place". / It frequents a bar while you're typing away, generating space.
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It's a month from last month, a year from last year. / It's a temporal version of the spatial term "here".