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"I'm fine, thanks for asking," comes one reply, the other: "Please rephrase as a proper question, instead of 'Jim likes P.'" No prizes for spotting the human there.
Girls don't like it when the asking comes through someone else.
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The ask comes with a "pledge to the community" -- but it's still an ask.
His cousin called him when there was a marriage of his cousin they asked — come to the wedding.
And in a show of indignation that would make the Dude proud, Lee from Moosehead Lake asked, "Come on!
"Did you hear the thunder?" a teenage girl asked coming down the trail.
"You know that, why do you ask?" came the reply.
"You see?" Nora asked, coming to a halt.
The adventures of what, you ask? Come, my friend.
"Can I get those flyaways?" a hairdresser asked, coming at her with a comb, as Aniston read over her script.
Palmer has a book, The Art of Asking coming out on November 11.
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