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The Puzzler

Zen and the Art of Telling Time.

RAY: What he saw in the book was not the text or the title or any of that. What he saw was the receipt with the time on it.

TOM: Exactly, the receipt.

RAY: He saw the time and he knew he had plenty of time. He wasn't going to be late for dinner. Anyway, who's our winner?

TOM: Oh boy. The winner this week is John Salinger, from Berwick, Maine. And for having his answer selected at random from among all the correct answers that we got, John is going to get a 26-dollar gift certificate to the Shameless Commerce Division at cartalk.com, with which he can pick up our CD of calls that are all about fathers. It's called 'Why You Should Never Listen to Your Father When It Comes to Cars.' And it's yours, John, if you want it, for being our Puzzler winner.


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