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defacto7

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15. It's a trick question.

Reply to jakeXT (Original post)

Sat Feb 15, 2014, 08:55 PM

Feb 2014

Like, "Don't put the ice cream on top of the pie, put the pie under the ice cream". That one gets me every time and I never know where to put the ice cream. Then I don't get none.

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One in four Americans unaware that Earth revolves around Sun: poll [View all] jakeXT Feb 2014 OP

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It's a trick question. defacto7 Feb 2014 #15

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