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 ====== Jar and Donkey ====== ====== Jar and Donkey ======
  
-**Jar and Donkey** is a pub in Alaska. It was first featured in a short story [[how_people_become_gold_miners|How People Become Gold Miners]], and later appeared to be the location for monthly meetings of the Trouser Suppliers Guild.+[{{:​wiki:​new_jar_and_donkey.png?​nolink&​400 |Jar and Donkey pub sign}}]
  
-It is not clear how the Guild, located on another continent, is able to travel to Alaska ​every month for a short evening sit-down at the pub. [[J. N. Spoilsport]] argues that [[Prince Ruifa]] should have enough money to fund the operation. ​[[Mr. Porridge]], however, points out that "Jar and Donkey"​ might simply be a chain.+**Jar and Donkey** ​is a pub in Alaska. It was first featured in a short story [[how_people_become_gold_miners|How People Become Gold Miners]], and later appeared ​to be the location for monthly meetings of the [[prince_ruifa|Trousers Suppliers Guild]].
  
-The pub is known for its miraculous ability to fit crowds of people in what seems to be very cramped space, ​and boasts no written menu and the ability to take oral requests, even if it means expending substantial resources in order to fulfill ​the request.+The pub is known for its miraculous ability to fit crowds of people in what seems to be very cramped space, ​as well as the ability to take oral requests, even if it means expending substantial resources in order to fulfill ​guests'​ wishes.
  
-[{{ :​wiki:​jar_donkey.png?nolink&​500 |Jar and Donkey ​overhead sign}}]+One time someone asked for a durian, and a whole expedition was organized to get it to the customer by breakfastWhen a whiff of it reached the customer'​s nostrils, the customer'​s face changed and she said that actually she was asking for Julian. 
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 +===== The Jar Puzzle ===== 
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 +The Jar Puzzle is a question that is written on the menu of the pub. It asks: "What is inside the jarGuess correctly and win a million dollars!"​ To this day no one has won the prize. [[Scholars]] point out that Jar and Donkey ​has no menu and, thus, //there is no fork//.
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