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  2. The Surprising Origins of 'Break a Leg'—and Why Performers ...

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    Always leave a "ghost light" on when the theater's empty. Related: These 105 Funny-Sounding Words Are So Wacky & Unusual, You Won't Believe They're Real! Common 'Break a Leg' Synonyms

  3. One Leg Too Few - Wikipedia

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    "One Leg Too Few" is a comedy sketch written by Peter Cook and most famously performed by Cook and Dudley Moore. It is a classic example of comedy arising from an absurd situation which the participants take entirely seriously (comic irony), and a demonstration of the construction of a sketch in order to draw a laugh from the audience with almost every line.

  4. List of humorous units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    In the Zork series of games, the Great Underground Empire has its own system of measurements, the most frequently referenced of which is the bloit. Defined as the distance the king's favorite pet can run in one hour (spoofing a popular legend about the history of the foot), the length of the bloit varies dramatically, but the one canonical conversion to real-world units puts it at ...

  5. What How Long You Can Balance on 1 Leg Says About Your ... - AOL

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    More specifically, researchers determined that the duration a person can stand on a single leg declined at the rate of 2.2 seconds per decade in the non-dominant leg, while doing the same at the ...

  6. 40 Funny Observational One-Panel Comics By Vaughan ... - AOL

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    Image credits: vaughantomlinson When asked about specific comic ideas that he personally loved but ultimately scrapped because they felt too weird or risky, Tomlinson responded: “I’m a big fan ...

  7. Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States

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    cigarette butt; also used as in "the fag end of the day", i.e. the last part of the working day fairing a gift, particularly one given or bought at a fair (obsolete); type of cookie (biscuit) made in Cornwall fairy cake a small sponge cake (US and UK also: cupcake) fairy lights Christmas lights fan-assisted oven

  8. How long can you stand on 1 leg? What it says about your ...

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    Single-Leg Stand: Stand on one leg while keeping your other leg lifted slightly off the ground. Hold this position for 20 to 30 seconds, then switch legs. Hold this position for 20 to 30 seconds ...

  9. Duckwalk - Wikipedia

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    Rock 'N' Roll singer Chuck Berry doing a one-legged hop style "duckwalk" while playing the guitar. The duckwalk is a form of dance performed by assuming a low partial squatting position and walking forwards, maintaining the low stance. It is similar to stalking and prowling. [1]