"I-zheet M'drurz" > wrote in message
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> Mary spaketh thusly:
>
> > Anyone hear the comic who said he ate so much
> > okra as a child that he couldn't keep his socks up?
>
> OK, anybody else who doesn't get it, raise your spatula...
>
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Have you ever had fried okra? It is kind of like deep-fried
slime. Very slippery. It is almost as though southerners
were hard pressed to find something to deepfry and settled
for something that would hold its shape just long enough for the
batter to brown.

ba boom!