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Monday, November 22, 2010
Poll Results 112
Here was the question:
Do you chuckle at this or not? "Jazz Men Rice"
Ha ha
13 (41%)
Not ha ha
18 (58%)
Well, is it funny when you hear that it was supposed to be Jasmine Rice?
5 comments:
Westley
said...
YES, that's funny. I thought it was a newspaper headline, but I couldn't figure out which word was the verb. The closest I could come up with was that 'rice' was a new kind of dance that men who played jazz were doing. :-)
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5 comments:
YES, that's funny. I thought it was a newspaper headline, but I couldn't figure out which word was the verb. The closest I could come up with was that 'rice' was a new kind of dance that men who played jazz were doing. :-)
Actually Jazz Man is a variety of jasmine rice grown, milled, bagged and being sold as "Jazzmen Rice." www.jazzmenrice.com
Oops. Add this: grown, milled and bagged in Louisiana...
Interesting, Lorin.
LOL, Megan!
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