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Pastimes : NNBM - SI Branch
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To: elpolvo who wrote (1374)1/17/2001 6:17:15 AM
From: Clappy  Read Replies (1) of 104197
 
I thought a countervail was something that a female accountant from India wears to hide her face...

<rimshot!>

<sound of crickets chirping...>

<Clappy blows into the microphone...>

It this thing on?

Here is a hint: accountant = bean counter
Here is another: vail was a play on the word veil...

<The various NNBM Club Members seated along the bar area, simultaneously turn their head, look at the joke telling stooge, and then turn back and continue their interrupted conversation...>

<Polvie presses the button and the large hook removes the twit from the NNBM stage...>

-YoungmansViolin
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