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Pick your poison, pick your poison, pick your poison, pick your poison, pick P-I-C-K, your Y-O-U-R, poison, P-O-U-R, P-O-I-S-O-N, poison.

Poison, poison, poison is bad for you, right? Yeah, poison is not good.

Snakes have poison. Many chemicals have poison. Pick your poison. Pick your poison. Pick to pick. To pick means to select or to choose. So pick your poison means But why? Why would anybody want to choose poison? Nobody would want to choose poison. Well, yes, actually, people do like poison. Not all poison is bad. Some poison refers to chocolate or ice cream. Sometimes poison refers to

whiskey or beer. Pick your poison means choose the food or the drink that you want to have.

And usually, is it usually or always, this food or drink is actually not very good for you.

So you have to think of something with lots and lots of calories, or something

really, really sweet, or something with alcohol. So if I were a bartender and I said, pick your poison,

that means choose your drink. What kind of a drink do you want? And you could say,

I'll have milk. And that would actually be funny, but most people would choose some sort of alcoholic

drink. If you came to my house, I might go to the freezer and say, pick your poison.

And that would mean choose what kind of ice cream you want.

I have many types of ice cream in my refrigerator, in my freezer.

Right now, these days, my favorite ice cream, ice cream sandwiches.

These days, my poison is ice cream sandwiches.

Our ice cream sandwiches.

Oh, I love them.

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