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Line 53: ** Answer: show up stripped to the waist, on a mule, that's halfway off the shoulder of the road. * In ''[[The Smurfs]]'' story "The Astrosmurf", the title character's first attempt at finding a way to travel to the stars is to ask Papa Smurf for advice. Papa Smurf has something in his spellbook called, "How to Travel Through the Macrocosm", a multi-part, complicated (to say the least) ritual: ~~-->~~{{quote\|'''Papa Smurf:''' Firstly, each morning, drink a pint of dew collected from a web woven by a male tarantula. Secondly, find a moonstone at the precise moment the sun is in eclipse. Thirdly, crush the moonstone delicately with your little finger while uttering cries of joy. Fourthly, wait for the powdered moonstone to turn to salt (this may take a hundred years). Fifthly, drop a pinch of this salt on a comet's tail. Sixthly, at the same time, get a tomcat to holler three times, 'SECAKEJUKEUACEHEPAOZREUPAUR". Seventhly, [[Lampshade Hanging\|do not be discouraged]], Eightly..."}} (There's more to it, but the protagonist leaves before he can finish.) == [[Fairy Tale]]s == * "Rumplestiltskin", where the (eventual) princess is forced to spin straw into gold. Also when the eponymous character asks her to guess his name.

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