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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 03:04 PM
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What does the N on the helmet of the Cornhuskers stand for?
Knowledge.
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tk2kewl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 03:05 PM
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1. I always wondered why an Idaho
school didn't have a "Potato Peelers" team
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Tempest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 03:06 PM
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3. There is an Idaho Spuds
A softball team.
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Tempest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 03:05 PM
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2. Nebraska
As in the Nebraska Cornhuskers.
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 03:07 PM
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4. Uhm,this is just an old joke.Read my answer in the original post. nt
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Tempest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 03:16 PM
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7. Sorry, didn't catch it
Never heard it before either.
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 03:22 PM
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9. Apparently, you are an alumnus.
:D

I keed, I keed. ;)
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lapfog_1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 03:19 PM
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8. Yup, I got it

Here is another...

Why is it always windy in Kansas?
Because Nebraska blows and Oklahoma sucks.

(from my misspent youth in Kansas)
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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 05:25 PM
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17. and of course what they used to say about Oklahoma...
If you walk north from Texas you smell it, and when you walk south from Kansas, you step in it.
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Stew225 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 04:21 PM
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14. Swede, your post #4 made me LOL. eom
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 03:07 PM
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5. Nebraska, I think.
:shrug:
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candy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 03:10 PM
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6.  I got your joke.----Elaine May and Mike Nichols had an old ----
Edited on Fri Nov-26-04 03:10 PM by candy
routine where she played a telephone operator and would say "K as in knife" when she was key spelling for someone.
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The Vorlon Donating Member (2 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 03:22 PM
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10. "N" stands for "Knowledge"
I think my personal quote says it all on this topic :)
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Crankie Avalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 03:23 PM
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11. That's easy, North Dakota...
...or some flat and wide "heartland"-type place like that. ;)
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rasbobbo Donating Member (25 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 03:23 PM
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12. stands for
Not this year.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 03:25 PM
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13. Short for "No, don't shit in your helmet."
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 05:04 PM
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15. This is the school that closes the library on game day, folks
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 05:18 PM
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16. N stands for Neocon
:evilfrown:
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