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@ghost-of-a-duke said
I will settle for a photograph of a leprechaun.


Nothing less.
In NetHack a leprechaun won't teleport if you have no money. So if you play "tourist" you can shock it with your expensive camera (probably taking a picture) and voilà challenge fullfilled.

Very Rusty
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@ghost-of-a-duke said
From a publication of 1893:

At the end of a particularly severe attack, Bismarck felt himself personally affronted, and sent seconds to Virchow with a challenge to fight a duel.The man of science was found in his laboratory, hard at work at experiments which had for their object the discovery of a means of destroying trichinæ, which were making great ravages in Ger ...[text shortened]... ious historical account).

https://skullsinthestars.com/2014/11/01/the-great-sausage-duel-of-1865/
And you talk about me copy and pasting!

Hypocrite! 😛 🙂

-VR

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@very-rusty said
And you talk about me copy and pasting!

Hypocrite! 😛 🙂
He references the source. That's the big difference!

Get it?

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@handyandy said
He references the source. That's the big difference!

Get it?
Yes, of course if he does it perfectly ok, if I do it not ok.

I get my dear old friend! 😉

-VR

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Death by sausage. Lol

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@instantkarma777 said
Death by sausage. Lol
OH, that was a joke was it?....I don't get it.

Could you say it in French?

-VR

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@very-rusty said
OH, that was a joke was it?....I don't get it.

Could you say it in French?

-VR
Why French?

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@instantkarma777 said
Why French?
I may get the joke you were trying to make? 😉

-VR

InstantKarma777

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The Germans are famous for sausage not the French.

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@instantkarma777 said
The Germans are famous for sausage not the French.
Doesn't matter what was the joke about? You laughed at your own joke!

-VR

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I was laughing about the duel involving sausages

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@instantkarma777 said
I was laughing about the duel involving sausages
Give him a few days to catch up.

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@ghost-of-a-duke said
Give him a few days to catch up.
No, I am not ever going to get it, why don't you explain it goad since you know-it-all? 😉

-VR

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@very-rusty said
No, I am not ever going to get it, why don't you explain it goad since you know-it-all? 😉

-VR
There is no joke to explain. We were discussing the reported duel involving sausages.

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@ghost-of-a-duke said
There is no joke to explain. We were discussing the reported dual involving sausages.
So why did he LOL? If it wasn't a joke?

-VR

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