The "When did you stop beating your wife?" was recently famously used by NBA Commissioner David Stern on Jim Rome's show a few months back when given a similar impossible question by Rome. It really has nothing to do with wife-beating.
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We may curse our bad luck that it's sounds like its; who's sounds like whose; they're sounds like their (and there); and you're sounds like your. But if we are grown-ups who have been through full-time education, we have no excuse for muddling them up.
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