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This takes me back a few years. My grandad use to ask a similar question which was 'If it takes a man a week to walk a fortnight, how many apples in a pound of plums?', to which the answer was always 'A lemon!'.

I'm sure you have to be of a certain generation to appreciate the humour of this....

My Grandad's version was: 'If it takes a man a week to walk a fortnight, how many apples are there in a barrel of grapes? The answer is 'A railway train'. 'And where does that come in?' answer: 'The station'. Every generation of the family was subjected to this nonsense on any family occasion. We trotted it out after his funeral, with children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren all chorusing the answers.

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