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Letter: Letter

Published 12 September 1998

From Chris Gibson

When working in Nigeria 10 years ago, I was party to the following
conversation between our cook and an American.

“What’s for dinner, Peter?”

“Jumping chicken.”

“Jumping chicken? What the hell is that?”

There followed a very good impression of a large frog.

cgibson@psionworld.net

Issue no. 2151 published 12 September 1998

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