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Brother Buzz

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17. Actually I heard the joke from a Kiwi

Reply to SwissTony (Reply #15)

Sat Jan 13, 2018, 04:44 PM

Jan 2018

And he told me a cool story about how his silver tongued grandfather traveled to Australia to woo a wife, telling her he owned a station. Well, when she arrived in New Zealand, she discovered he was a lowly milker at a dairy. They didn't talk after that, but they did manage to have eleven children.

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