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are you a man or a mouse

Are you a courageous man or a coward?
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A man and his wife heard loud sounds coming from the basement. The wife tried to get the husband to go down there to check it out, but the husband, being too scared, refused. The wife, urging him to go anyway, goaded him to go down there by saying, "Are you a man or a mouse?"

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Submitted on July 07, 2010

Modified by TriplePurple on December 03, 2023

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jsi muž nebo myš

Bist du ein Mann oder eine Maus?

eres un hombre o un raton

mus aut quis tu es

adam mısın fare mi

你是男人还是老鼠

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