Punch it on the nose and it will dispense a joke - and you can keep going till you find one you like.

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Hopefully they were left with enough happy memories from three days of music, art and dance to keep them going till next year.

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"I'll keep signing him till he's nearly 50 or 60 if he keeps putting the ball in the net, " Palace manager Ian Holloway said of Phillips.

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On one United Nations estimate, to keep today's worker-pensioner ratio stable till 2050, France would have to import 1.8m people a year.

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Though several potential investors have been sniffing around, Good till now has declined any offers in a bid to keep his team small and focused on getting version 1 out the door.

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I'll just say here that I will think of these young warriors -- the ones who fought, the ones who keep on fighting, the ones who never made it back -- till the end of my days.

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