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Old July 30th, 2003, 10:11 AM
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Default Re: Jokes and Riddles Centre

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Originally posted by Narf'scompatshop:
you forgot to mention that the father was a surgeon.
I'm familiar with variations on it; the omission is deliberate, because nothing requires that the father be a surgeon. The point of the riddle is to point out that most people just assume that surgeons are male.
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