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A girl watched, fascinated, as her mother smoothed cold cream on her face.  "Why do you do that?" she asked. "To make myself beautiful," said the mother, who began removing the cream with a tissue. "What's the matter?" asked the girl.  "Giving up?"

A woman and her husband interrupted their vacation to go to a dentist.  "I want a tooth pulled, and I don't want Novocain because I'm in a big hurry," the woman said.  "Just extract the tooth as quickly as possible, and we'll be on our way." The dentist was quite impressed.  "You're certainly a courageous woman," he said.  "Which tooth is it?" The woman turned to her husband and said, "Show him your tooth, dear."

The reading material at the barber shop consisted entirely of murder stories, mysteries, thrillers, and ghost tales. When I asked the barber if he wanted to terrify his customers he replied, "No, sir.  These books make the customers' hair stand up and then it becomes easier to trim and cut."

Did you hear about the race horse that was so late coming in, they had to pay the jockey time and a half?

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