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B & O IS (OR WAS) A RAILROAD, BALTIMORE & OHIO

B.O.: SLANG FOR OFFENSIVE BODY ODOR

B477 HUMAN ACTIVITY (BODILY FUNCTION)

B478 EXPLANATION OF A NAME

BACKHOUSE=PRIVY OUTHOUSE

BAD LUCK ATTACHED TO NAME

BAD RESULTS FROM SUPERSTITIOUS PRACTICE

BALL BOUNCES CHE SERA SERA INEVITABILITY

BAN, A DEODORANT FOR BODY ODOR

Bartender Jokes

BASEBALL FAILURE

BASEBALL SPORTS

BASEBALL STADIUM

BATHOS ANTILLIMAY

BATHTUB VERSE MONOLOGUE

BATTLE FATIGUE PUN

BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC PARODY

BEAUTY TREATMENTS

BEER BRAND NAME PUNS: ANHEISER & BUDWEISER

BEGGING CHARITY BEGGARS

BEGGING GIFT-GIVING

BEHEADING IN ELEVATOR

BEHEADING OF FLOWER (BABY)

BELCHING POLITENESS

BELIEF TALE AMULET FUNCTION

BERGER, WILLIAM

BESTIALITY SODOMY BUGGERY

BETSY BUG? BED BUG?

BIASED OPINIONS

BIBLE STORY REFERENCE

BIBLE: DEUTERONOMY VIII:3

BIBLICAL (RELIGIOUS)

BIBLICAL CHARACTER

BIBLICAL FIGURES

BIBLICAL TALE RESOURCEFULNESS REWARDED

BIBLICAL: GENESIS PARODY HUMOR TIME

BIRD WHIPPORWHILL WHIPPORWILL

BIRDS OF A FEATHER

BIRDS, ANIMALS, TRANSFORMATION

BIRDS: ALBATROSS

BIRDS: CANARIES

BIRTH CONNOTATION

BIRTH OF ANIMAL FROM HUMAN

BIRTH OF OUR LORD=CHRISTMAS.

Birthday Belief

Birthday, Numerology, Numbers

Black-Eyed Peas

BLASON POPULAIRE

BLASON POPULAIRE: COBBLERS ARE FEARLESS

BLINDNESS TO THE OBVIOUS

BLOOMING: SLANG FOR GENUINE, VERITABLE

BLUEBEARD: SEX REVERSAL

BOA CONSTRICTOR

BODILY ACTIVITY

BODILY FUNCTIONS

BODY PART PLANT STRENGTH

BOIL SKIN SORE STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION

BOMBER PLANE USED DURING WORLD WAR II

BOOBS = BREASTS (ASSUMED)

BOSCO=CHOCOLATE FLAVORED SYRUP, BRAND NAME.

Bottomless Lake

BOTTOMLESS PIT.

BOY SCOUT CABIN

BRAGGING EGOTISM

BRAILE WRITER BRAILE WRITING

BRAND-NAME TELEVISION

Bread and Butter

BREAKING IN A HORSE

BREAKING THE HYMEN

breaking up, end

BREASTED BREASTS

Broom superstitions

BROWNIES-GIRL SCOUTS

Bug superstitions

BUILDING (A) PERSONS

BUILDING (Q) AND ACTIONS

BUILDING - LIBRARY (Q)

BUILDING AND ANIMALS (Q)

BUILDING TRADES

BUILDINGS (Q) COLOR

BULL=UNTRUTH, LIE

BURIAL INSTRUCTIONS

BURIED TREASURE.

BURNS, TREATMENT OF

BUSINESS MONEY GOOD LUCK

BUSINESS WORK ETHIC

Butcher, Meat, Machine

BUTTER, MEDICINAL PROPERTIES

BUTTING IN MEDDLE

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