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Magic 8 Ball
By Euphrates
Magic 8 Ball Remember kids at school making those folded-paper fortune tellers? You know, your friend puts their fingers in the device and you select a number on the outside. After some opening and closing of the contraption your mate would open up a flap to reveal that you liked little Becky Stinkerwoltz. Well, in the late '40s the Alabe Crafts company merged the schoolyard-tested idea of the folded-paper fortune telling system with a plastic 8-ball. Ask the ball a question, give it a shake and then look in the "Spirit Slate" for the answer. Some of the possible responses were:

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