When it came time to pay, the skunk didn't have a scent, the deer didn't have a buck so they put the meal on the duck's bill.
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Because the chicken was on vacation.
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In the neigh-borhood.
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Because there's no one else to wag it for him.
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feel really weird about donuts right now.
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Five. One to change the bulb and eleven to say they could do it faster.
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None, because they were copycats
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