Twenty. One to hold the bulb, two to turn the ladder, and seventeen on the guest list.
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Because there's no one else to wag it for him.
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Because the sea weed
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The lettuce came in ahead, the egg got beat and the faucet is still running.
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I just found the Bush that Jeb lost."
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Because all his uncles were "ants"!
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