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Twelve pears hanging high, twelve men passing by.  Each took a pear and left eleven hanging there.  How can this be?
A: each was the mans name
B: sportsman
C: signore
D: game equipment
E: old man
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Deep Thought is thinking for 7.5 million years.

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A

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