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Bonus - Mysterious Jokes from the Past

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The War Against Stripping of Ash

A schoolmaster asks one of his boys in a sharp, wintery morning, what was Latin for cold? The boy hesitated a little. What's Sarah said? He can't you tell? Yes, yes. Did you say Sarah? Yeah. Why are I H Sarah? That's so cool. Instead of sir, just sir. Or is it like stealing people's fireplace ash? It might be. All right, we'll never know. If anyone has a good explanation of stripping of ash, I'd love to hear it. And then I get a link to Joe Miller's jests. This is so weird. There're only two pages of results. There's only one page

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