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> One morning, three Southerners and three Yankees were in a ticket counter line at a train station. The three

Northerners each bought a ticket and watched as the three Southerners bought just one ticket.
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> "How are the three of you going to travel on only one ticket?" asked one of the Yankees.
> "Watch and learn," answered one of the boys from the South.
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> All six boarded the train where the three Yankees sat down, but the three Southerners crammed into a toilet together and closed the door.

> Shortly after the train departed, the conductor came around to collect tickets. He knocked on the toilet door and said, "Ticket, please." The door opened just a crack and a single arm emerged with a ticket in hand. The

conductor took it and moved on.

> The Yankees saw this happen and agreed it was quite a clever idea. Indeed, so clever they decided to do the same

thing on the return trip and save some money.

> That afternoon when they got back to the station, they bought a single ticket for the return trip and watched, while to their astonishment, the three Southerners

didn't buy even one ticket.

> "How are you going to travel without a ticket?" asked one of the perplexed Yankees.

> "Watch and learn," answered the three Southern boys in unison.
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> When they boarded the train, the three Northerners crammed themselves into a toilet and the three

Southerners crammed into another toilet just down the way. Shortly after the train began to move, one of the Southerners left their toilet a nd walked over to the
toilet in which the Yankees were hiding.

> The Southerner knocked on the door and said, "Ticket, please."
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> There's just no way on God's green earth to explain how the Yankees won the war.