Possum in a Peanut Pull-Back Car

Classic Archie McPhee logic: pick two unrelated things, combine them with total confidence, decline to explain. There's no concept underneath this and it doesn't need one. A possum is driving a peanut. You pull it back, you let it go, it crosses a desk. The whole transaction takes four seconds and works every time. This is the right answer when you've drawn a name in a gift exchange and genuinely know nothing about the person — absurd rather than personal, so it can't misfire on taste, and cheap enough that nobody feels awkward about the amount.

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