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Exercises 67–72 are based on the following jokes about books:
• “Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” —Groucho Marx
• “I recently bought a book of free verse. For $12.” —George Carlin
• “If a word in the dictionary was misspelled, how would we know?” —Steven Wright
• “Encyclopedia is a Latin term. It means ‘to paraphrase a term paper.’” —Greg Ray
• “A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.” —Jerry Seinfeld
• “I honestly believe there is absolutely nothing like going to bed with a good book. Or a friend who’s read one.” —Phyllis Diller
If Phyllis Diller’s joke about books is excluded, in how many ways can the remaining five jokes be ranked from best to worst?

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