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176 I went into the desert and somehow found a waterfall
177 ZZ Top's Frank Beard doesn't have a beard?
178 Billy Weaver had travelled down from London on the slow afternoon train, with a change at Swindon on the way, and by the time he got to Bath it was about nine o'clock in the evening and the moon was coming up out of a clear starry sky over the houses opposite the station entrance. But the air was deadly cold and the wind was like a flat blade of ice on his cheeks. "Excuse me," he said, "but is there a fairly cheap hotel not too far away from here?" "Try The Bell and Dragon," the porter answered, pointing down the road. "They might take you in. It's about a quarter of a mile along on the other side." Billy thanked him and picked up his suitcase and set out to walk the quarter-mile to The Bell and Dragon. He had never been to Bath before. He didn't know anyone who lived there. But Mr Greenslade at the Head Office in London had told him it was a splendid city. "Find your own lodgings," he had said, "and then go along and report to the Branch Manager as soon as you've got yourself settled." Billy was seventeen years old. He was wearing a new navy-blue overcoat, a new brown trilby hat, and a new brown suit, and he was feeling fine. He walked briskly down the street. He was trying to do everything briskly these days. Briskness, he had decided, was the one common characteristic of all successful businessmen. The big shots up at Head Office were absolutely fantastically brisk all the time. They were amazing....
179 I tripped and broke my chin in the hospital when I was visiting someone in the ICU...
180 there are NO Piggly Wiggly stores in Memphis, Tennessee?
181 There Was no sign of piano, organ, hymnbooks, church programs the familiar ecclesiastical impedimenta we saw every Sunday...
182 Jacksonville, Florida-based Backyard Broadcasting did not own any radio stations in Florida?...
183 Piggly Wiggly's headquarters are located in New Hampshire, instead of the southern US?...
184 a veterinarian is charged with animal cruelty?
185 Trump supporters call Nancy Pelosi a psychopath and a narcissist?
186 My deaf partner stated they enjoyed the ambiance when I did not laugh at their joke because I did not hear it?...
187 John was relieved to skip his class to go to work... as a teacher.
188 Is it ironic that I wrote a book about a bird when I don't even like birds?...
189 A person has typed "another way to dumn down a human"?
190 Is it ironic that I said 'how are you my little ray of sunshine? Did you miss me coming round today?' He replied with a meme and said 'who are you again?'...
191 Howard Rollins, who plays a police detective in "In The Heat of The Night," is arrested for DUI and cocaine possession?...
192 Sylvester Stallone, who plays Rambo, is in favor of stricter gun-control laws?...
193 a 1964 Chevrolet Malib- car that was the target of repossession in "Repo Man"-ctually gets stolen during filming of that movie?...
194 John Amos, who plays a character who gets fired every once in a while, gets fired from "Good Times"?...
195 ZZ Top's Frank Beard doesn't have a beard?
196 Jerry Springer never watches his own show?
197 A 12th grade math teacher fails a test on its own math concepts?
198 An accountant selling coffee beans
199 We were in the pub having two pints, which is still over the legal limit. We came out and got in the car to drive home but we could see there was a police checkpoint down the road. So we went back in and had another pint and waited for them to go away....
200 "Is it ironic that a fire extinguisher starts to burn?"