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Are crisps (chips) just mashed potatoes that have been horribly over cooked (fried)?

Also, do you think that everything on Earth is just some form of mashed potato?
 
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?

Also, what does my mother's lasagna have to do with anything of this?
 
If corn oil in made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, what is baby oil made from?
 
Kit Fisto said:
Why is 'bra' singular and 'panties' plural?
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KYLE I'M NOT ANSWERING ANY MORE OF YOUR QUESTIONS FOUND ON GOOGLE -__-

"Bra" is short for "Brassiere," a French word that originally meant "a child's jacket with sleeves." It derives from an Old French word for "arms." Eventually, the word came to refer to the modern undergarment.

Thus, by replacing one word with the other, we go from "a brassiere" (singular) to "a bra" (also singular).

"Panties" derives from the word "pants," which was shortened from the original word "pantaloons," another French word. "Pantaloons" originally referred to a general *style* or *class* of garments either worn in Venice or assumed to have originated there. (That word was further derived from Saint Pantaleon, the patron saint of Venice.)

Again, by replacement, "he's wearning pantaloons" (plural) became "he's wearing pants" (also plural).

This unfortunately doesn't explain why people chose to shorten the term "Pantaloons" to "Pants" rather than "Pant," nor why "Brassiere" wasn't shortened to "Bras" (even though that is the Old French word for "arms").
 
What did the mathematician do to solve his constipation problems?
 
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