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486: No Such Thing As Purplue

No Such Thing As A Fish

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The Mystery of James Bond

The first person to use the phrase roast beef sandwich in English had a surname which is Nanogram of the word steak. John Keats claimed to be able to eat two dozen roast beef sandwiches in a single sitting, but it's clear he was saying metaphorically that he was so hungry,. I could eat two dozen sandwiches and perhaps he couldn't actually do it. And we'd already researched roast beef sandwiches and Keats. It turns out in the OED that he's the first reference of roast beef sandwich. That's where my brain went because he's not very sticky kind of poet.

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