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From: rdp@teddy.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Roosters laying eggs
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Date: Fri, 21-Feb-86 09:56:20 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 21 09:56:20 1986
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In article <2800@sjuvax.UUCP> nick@sjuvax.UUCP (N. Straguzzi) writes:
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>So here's a few NEW (!!!) "Idiot Quiz Questions" for everyone to work on.
>
>1) What country invented French Fries?
>
Well, I suppose there is a trick here, but, as far as historical documentation
is concerned, either Holland or Belgium (Flanders) might win here. Seems that
while I was living in Belgium, I viewed in one of the museums a late 16th
century Bruegel or Van Eyck or whatever, with a pile of potatoes in the
backround sliced into long sticks with a 1/4" square cross section. Also
present in the painting was the depiction of a large pot over a fire. Maybe
filled with lard (?).

No, the picture had no evidence of golden arches (-:

Now, there's my answer. It ain't funny, but neither is much else in this
news group.

Flames to /dev/macdonalds

>3) What's the first day of the 21st century?

It isn't April 19th, 1721, is it? (just an off-the-cuff guess)

Dick Pierce