# Let's tell a story four words at a time (Part 1)

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**Created:** [February 2, 2015, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-tell-a-story-four-words-at-a-time-part-1/711587 "2015-02-02T09:12:07Z")\
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his late-night dreams

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about appearing naked in

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a shark tank as

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hundreds of onlookers jeered

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and made obscene gestures.

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But as the fall guy,

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Lee Majors, might say

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“Whoops! _Ow!_ What the

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hell are you doing?"

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"Shoving bamboo shoots under

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my fingernails? What did

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does it look like?

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" Anyway, said singer forgotten,

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"Why doesn’t anyone remember

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trigonometry?”

No-one answered.

The

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cosine hated the secant,

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after what it did

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to his brother Tony.

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"Subject was bisected and

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exsanguinated," the coroner’s report

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