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EVERY PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES ELECTED ON A YEAR
ENDING WITH A ZERO IS ASSASINATED.

Where learned: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Weather sign or control

Date learned: 08-00-1968

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SQUIRRELS GOING SOUTH MEANS THE WINTER WILL BE HARD.

Data entry tech comment: SPELLING CORRECTED BY STUDENT EDITOR.

Where learned: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Weather sign or control

Date learned: 08-00-1968

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IF YOU HAVE KILLED A SNAKE, NOT JUST ANY OLD DEAD SNAKE, BUT
IF YOU KILL A SNAKE AND HANG IT ON A FENCE IT WILL PRODUCE A
A RAIN WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS.

Where learned: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Weather sign or control

Date learned: 08-00-1968

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WHAT IS THE MOST DREADED SOUND IN THE WORLD TO A MONKEY?
BOING, BOING, BOING

Where learned: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

Subject headings: RIDDLE -- Riddle Question

Date learned: 08-00-1968

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WHAT GOES KLONK, KLONK, KLONK AND IS PURPLE?
A FOUR-DOOR GRAPE

Where learned: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

Subject headings: RIDDLE -- Riddle Question

Date learned: 08-00-1968

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WHAT'S THE LATEST TEENAGE MARRIAGE PROPOSAL?
"YOU'RE WHAT!"

Where learned: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

Subject headings: RIDDLE -- Riddle Question

Date learned: 08-00-1968

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WHY DID TARZAN PUT ON SUNGLASSES?
SO HE COULDN'T SEE THE ELEPHANTS

Where learned: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

Subject headings: RIDDLE -- Riddle Question

Date learned: 08-00-1968

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WHAT DID TARZAN SAY WHEN HE SAW THE ELEPHANTS COMING?
"HERE COME THE ELEPHANTS."

Where learned: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

Subject headings: RIDDLE -- Riddle Question

Date learned: 08-00-1968

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DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE FLEA WHO CLIMBED UP THE ELEPHANT'S
LEG WITH RAPE ON HIS MIND?
CONFIDENT FLEA!

Where learned: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

Subject headings: RIDDLE -- Riddle Question

Date learned: 08-00-1968

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WHAT'S THE DEFINITON OF THE JITTERBUG?
A MAN IN FRONT OF A PAY TOILET WITH ONLY NINE CENTS.

Where learned: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

Subject headings: RIDDLE -- Riddle Question

Date learned: 08-00-1968

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WHAT'S BLACK AND WHITE AND RED ALL OVER?
A BLEEDING ZEBRA

Where learned: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

Subject headings: RIDDLE -- Riddle Question

Date learned: 08-00-1968

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WHAT'S BLACK AND WHITE AND RED ALL OVER?
A BLEEDING NUN

Where learned: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

Subject headings: RIDDLE -- Riddle Question

Date learned: 08-00-1968

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DO YOU KNOW HOW TO CATCH AN ALLIGATOR?
YOU TAKE A PAIR OF BINOCULARS AND LOOK THROUGH THE WRONG END,
IT (THEY) MAKE THE ALLIGATOR REAL SMALL. THEN YOU TAKE A PAIR
OF TWEEZERS AND PUT IT IN A MATCHBOX.

Where learned: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

Subject headings: RIDDLE -- Riddle Question

Date learned: 08-00-1968

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HOW DO YOU CATCH A RABBIT?
STAND BEHIND A TREE AND MAKE NOISES LIKE A CARROT

Where learned: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

Subject headings: RIDDLE -- Riddle Question

Date learned: 08-00-1968

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IF A STRAWBERRY WEIGHED SIX OUNCES, HOW LONG WOULD IT TAKE
A GLASS OF WATER FALLING OFF A CLIFF TO BREAK A SHINGLE?
TWO TELEPHONE POLE LENGTHS BECAUSE MOTORCYCLES DON'T HAVE
DOORS.

Where learned: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

Subject headings: RIDDLE -- Riddle Question

Date learned: 08-00-1968

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WHY DO ELEPHANTS HAVE WRINKLES IN THEIR KNEES?
'CAUSE THEY ALL PLAY MARBLES DURING THEIR COFFEE BREAK.

Where learned: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

Subject headings: RIDDLE -- Riddle Question

Date learned: 08-00-1968

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WHAT'S YELLOW, IN A TREE, AND DANGEROUS?
A CANARY WITH A MARCHING AN(?).

Where learned: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

Subject headings: RIDDLE -- Riddle Question

Date learned: 08-00-1968

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HOW MANY ELEPHANTS CAN YOU PUT IN A VOLKSWAGON?
SIX, THREE IN THE FRONT AND THREE IN THE BACK.

Where learned: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

Subject headings: RIDDLE -- Riddle Question

Date learned: 08-00-1968

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WHY DO ELEPHANTS WEAR RED AND GREEN TENNIS SHOES?
BECAUSE THEY'RE ON DIFFERENT BASKETBALL TEAMS.

Where learned: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

Subject headings: RIDDLE -- Riddle Question

Date learned: 08-00-1968

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WHAT DOES A FIVE-HUNDRED POUND CANARY SAY?
CHERP, CHERP IN A VERY LOW AND LOUD VOICE

Where learned: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

Subject headings: RIDDLE -- Riddle Question

Date learned: 08-00-1968

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