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Lastly, I've been particularly troubled by the joke on an ice lolly that I read last night. It began: "If a gown is evening wear, what is a suit of armour?". Aha! I thought to myself, that's an easy one. So I sucked away, and revealed the answer: "Silverware". Huh? Surely it should be "(K)night wear"? I mean, neither answer is particularly funny, but this is a lolly, after all. I did briefly speculate that the text had been imported from a UK source, and that the US doesn't really understand the idea of knights, so it had to be rewritten, but this explanation brings more questions than it answers. Any help you have will be much appreciated.

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