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    0  Views: 879 Answers: 3 Posted: 14 years ago
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      Because boxers used to fight in a circle drawn on the floor, called the ring. This name stuck On even after the boxing ring became a square...

      14 years ago. Rating: 6
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        To make people ask this question many years later...they were a very cunning bunch, they were!

        14 years ago. Rating: 2
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          ....and....why do you park on a driveway and drive on a parkway?    :)

          14 years ago. Rating: 1
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