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What is Walmart's best-selling item?
Hint: It's a food. 
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SwampFox
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By quanity or dollars?
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MB2
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Quantity. 
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Donuts?
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I would say either potato's or bananas. If someone put a gun to my head to pick one I would pick bananas because they got em hanging by the registers.
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MB2
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~~*chomp*~~ Bananas is correct. 
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Which Christmas Carol begins with these lyrics, and who is thought to have written it?
Alas, my love, you do me wrong,
To cast me off discourteously.
For I have loved you well and long,
Delighting in your company.
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I know it to be "Greensleeves" lyrics...web search says it was supposably written by Henry the VIII...
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MB2
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~~*swingin' my bunny slippers under my chair*~~ 
What Dickens novel featured Uriah Heep?? (not the group, the character.)
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Since I actually read that book, I'll pass on this one!
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Ozark
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MissBudweiser said:
What Dickens novel featured Uriah Heep??
Please - I'm still traumatized from being forced to read David Copperfield and write a report on it in ninth grade (1959).
I don't think kids have to do crap like that these days. Of course, they don't get much of an education anymore, either.
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Don't read any of the classics in middle school...don't remember reading many in HS either...only reason I read the book was for my English Ed. degree...and I wonder why kids ask "how am I ever going to use this?"
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Ozark
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"how am I ever going to use this?"
They put me in advanced classes, and I had about three years of algebra. That mostly involved "factoring quadratic equations" - THOUSANDS of them.
(X2 + 2XY + Y2) = (X + Y)(X + Y)
Now, I've done a lot of work in many fields since then - and I can't imagine why anyone would ever have to factor a quadratic equation in the real world (except a H.S. math teacher teaching kids to do it).
I miss all the hours and brain cells I was forced to waste on that useless crap. Bottom line - schools are babysitters that keep the kids penned up some of the time, so they don't wreak havoc on the community while the parents are at work.
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David Copperfield is correct. 
Which famous author has written a series of books about a gunslinger, that mixes western, arthurian, romance, science fiction and occultism into tales of good vs. evil?
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a little tougher, but I'll say Stephan King...
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I'm with King, since I have the books.
I also have a collection of Uriah Heep. The group, not the fictional character.
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"The Dark Tower" series. I understand it may become a movie soon....
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Sometimes referred to as the greatest of all American novels, this book contains these quotes:
"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do."
"She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl."
"So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children."
What novel is it?
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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This quote is from a famous businessman, and is dated July 1983.
"The Monday morning after the 4th of July weekend, I paused in the hallway outside the boardroom, in Amarillo, Texas, preparing for a difficult taks. I had to meet the operating committee, and we all knew we had serious problems. The boom times brought on by OPEC were over. At one point, we had as many as 51 rigs working, including five expensive jack-ups in the Gulf of Mexico. We had put most of our eggs in one basket, and we were not finding the oil and gas we expected. Meanwhile, we were spending $500,000 a day to keep the Gulf operating going.
We had made alot of money - in the United States, Canada, and the North Sea. But we were overstaffed, with too much management and too many support toops. We had begun scaling down our activity in 1982, but we would have to do more - much more.
The price of oil would collapse if the Saudis opened their spigot. I had been going around like the Ancient Marnier, telling anyone who would listen that "this thing can't last. It's hanging by a thread - the Saudis. And we can't depend on the Saudis.
I went back to my office and stood at the window, looking out at the city and the big country beyond. Amarillo sits on the high plains of Texas, 3600 feet above sea level. It enjoys long, damatic vistas and fine, dry air - it's a great place to live. I had learned most of what I knew here on the Taxas plains, knowledge that was about to be tested in a new way."
Who is the businessman?
To Kill a Mocking bird is correct!
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T. Boone Pickens
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Ozark
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MissBudweiser said:
"It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do."
I'll remember that next time I've got a straight, there's three cards to a flush showing, and the other guy's raising like hell.
To Kill a Mockingbird is liberal b.s. politically-correct racist propaganda, not "the greatest novel". Bonfire of the Vanities comes much closer to the truth about race relations in this country.
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MissBudweiser said:
"It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do."
I'll remember that next time I've got a straight, there's three cards to a flush showing, and the other guy's raising like hell.
To Kill a Mockingbird is liberal b.s. politically-correct racist propaganda, not "the greatest novel". Bonfire of the Vanities comes much closer to the truth about race relations in this country.
"Sometimes referred to as the greatest of all American novels, this book contains these quotes:"
And, if I had've used the school as a "baby-sitting service" while my kid was growing up, I guess things could have turned out worse!! 
Somehow or other though, that pic of John-John under JFK's desk got seared into my mind when I was a kid, and I realized no matter who I was, or what I did, he was job #1!!!
Politically correct?  Not! 
Please....take me back to 1960, when things were better! 
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