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{{quote|''Ask him to find me an acre of land''
''Between the salt water and the sea-strand,''
''Plough it with a lamb's horn,''
''Sow it all over with one peppercorn,''
''Reap it with a sickle of leather,''
''And gather it up with a rope made of heather,''
''Then he'll be the true love of mine.''
|'''Scarborough Fair''', [[Child Ballad|Child # 2]]}}
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* The University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt traditionally has an impossible task or two among the list of things to find, make, or do. One year it was "build a working nuclear reactor in a shed on the Quad", which, in best Impossible Task fashion, turned out to be not ''quite'' as impossible as the organizers had expected (or hoped).
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