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Miscellaneous


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Warning by leader of a villainous horde trying to storm the castle to avoid/evade the enemy's cauldrons of molten metal raining down upon them.

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Miscellaneous


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Brother slangily tells his sister to look at their Dad: he's the best.

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Arts/Sports


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I tell Del that I really love the lyric poem that was sent to me by a former LA Ram quarterback via Gail.

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Miscellaneous


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How to describe a 60s party at which the marijuana flowed continuously.

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World Languages


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Scotsman negatively questions the idea that the appetizer consisting of thinly sliced bread with caviar spread on it would be a cure-all for the otherwise poorly planned party.

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Sports


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Each ceremony wherein the high school football stars ink their contracts to attend State U. is off.

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8/30/10

Entertainment


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In a note left as an act of desperation, Ron questions his wife Deborah who had invited the flamboyant "cuchi-cuchi" girl to spend the weekend at their house, all the while contending that it would not be disruptive when in fact chaos reigned.

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8/27/10

World Geo


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Hard-line Muslim Mideast potentate is punnily told that the Italian countess's displaying of her best feature, her bottom, with tight pants was not strictly speaking against the law.

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8/26/10

Sports/World Geo


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College frat boy is encouraged not to try to get the North African girl who had just had her coming out party into the sack.

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8/24/10

Science/Entertainment


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60s sweater girl crazily hooked on curiously strong mints.

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8/23/10

Science/World Geo


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South Sea island installation where scientists are working to make a machine capable of passing the Turing Test.

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8/20/10

Entertainment


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Body art Gomer got which was deemed by all to be graceful, dignified, and imposing in appearance.

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8/19/10

Entertainment


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Sounds made when "Denny Crain" actor found out that his lease payment had been reduced.

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8/18/10

World Geo/Arts


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A physician with a tin ear, who is a close friend of Evelyn, tells her that he gave no thought whatsoever to having lunch at a cheap hole in the wall Mexican food place in an affluent Collin County suburb north of Dallas.

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8/17/10

Category:Entertainment


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Two stage assistants to "Erich Weiss" called out to a friend of theirs.

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8/16/10

Category:Miscellaneous


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At a trade show Edna demonstrates the beneficial effects of an extract from a common lawn weed.

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8/13/10

Category:Miscellaneous


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Abraham cried out to Delia about the prohibition their company had introduced which mean they could no longer import rare, expensive oxen because it was now illegal.

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8/12/10

Category:World Geo/Languages


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Eduardo saw in his mind's eye a fantastic vision: the lush greenness of the Emerald Isle.

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8/11/10

Category:Entertainment


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Scott Joplin song based on the sounds, conversations and rhythms made by crews which pick up the trash.

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8/10/10

Category:Miscellaneous


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When the Biblical prophets have a reunion this is how Isaiah, the first , gloats to the second about their relative placements in the Old Testament.

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8/09/10

Category:World Languages


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Lester was unsuccessful in getting any one of the young ladies of noble birth into the sack.

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8/06/10

Category:Miscellaneous


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We did not even think about bidding on the old church bench.

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8/05/10

Category:History/Science


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Descartes "thinks and therefore would not speak disparagingly about the man who takes care of the grounds at the estate."

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8/04/10

Category:Arts


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Shakespeare's clothes shout out as if proud of it: dull and colorless.

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8/03/10

Category:World Geo/Languages


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A Frenchman says good night, snooty Brazilian.

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8/02/10

Category:Sports


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Is next to a large brass instrument played by a future Notre Dame football coach. when he was in college at Miami of Ohio.

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7/30/10

Category:History


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Vice problems ensnare a Mississippi Senator of the 1960s.

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7/29/10

Category:History


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Art is queried about whether "the power is on" in the government's huge radio detecting and ranging early warning system.

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7/28/10

Category:History


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Describing Mr. Regan, the cursed, overly authoritative, domineering head of the unit for which Jimmy Carter's daughter works.

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7/27/10

Category:World Geo/Entertainemnt


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Eleanor is told that Dorothy Ogle, a a budding opera singer being championed by an early James Bond nemesis, went to college at this North Carolina college in Charlotte.

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7/26/10

Category:World Geo


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Kay tells how she makes Trevor mad about a bottle of Japanese sauce.

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7/23/10

Category:World Geo/Languages


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Man tells his Spanish uncles that it was in an Eskimo dwelling that he caught sight of idiotic soldier Nan.

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7/22/10

Category:World Geo/Sports


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Punny illegal blow in a boxing match in Mexicali.

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7/21/10

Category:World Geo/Arts


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Fashion designer Cassini is told by a friend as he visits a West Texas city that he sees their common friend Nan, who is dressed up like erotic author Anais.

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7/20/10

Category:Miscellaneous


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"Reappearance" of one who wears his emotions on his sleeve.

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7/19/10

Category: World Geo/Entertainment


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Jackie Gleason tells his "Honeymooners" sidekick that he absolutely has to visit this large Indonesian island just off the coast o Malaysia.

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7/16/10

Category: World Geo


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Punny order from sheriff to men he had deputized to track down the thieves who had burglarized the local art gallery, when he learned that the deputies themselves had found the loot but made off with the modern pieces relying on illusions that tend to trick the eye and brain, as he tells them to admit what they have done.

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7/15/10

Category: World Geo


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An Italian-American's correction to someone who had misidentified the dish as being made with manicotti when in fact it was fixed with short tubular pasta with diagonally cut ends.

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7/13/10

Category: SPorts/Entertainment


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The face of the a private detective who is the brother of baseball's all time home run champ.

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7/12/10

Category: Arts


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Words of advice from the director to an actor auditioning for a part: Stand up, walk toward me and show me all the emotion you can!

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7/09/10

Category: Business


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Ridicules with contempt an internet sight where one can go to get answers to questions.

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7/08/10

Category: Miscellaneous


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Headline about an attack on the corner store where they sell ready to eat meats, cheeses, bagels, etc.

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7/07/10

Category: Miscellaneous


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Response to Evelyn who has asked what the purpose of the special red phone is. He gets the answer that it is to make Alvin, Sara's only living family member, aware of what is going on.

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7/06/10

Category: Science


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A fellow member of the paleontologist's crew tells Rae that he understands that no great ape remains are to be found in this particular area that the leader had selected as promising.

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7/05/10

Category: Business


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Rodney, vain, self important and silly, holder of degrees all the way up to the doctorate, is, Sidney, a diplomatic representative of the company founded by David Packard and others?

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7/02/10

Category: Miscellaneous


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The brouhaha is about Emil's mistake in making the carbonated citrus drink

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7/01/10

Category: World Geo/Languages


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Pretty bored with Love, Italian style.

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6/30/10

Category: Sports


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IF, and this is a big IF, Dodger star pitcher of the 50s and 60s and 1955 World Series MVP Johnny had been caught doing drugs and was exposed in a story in Sports Illustrated, this perhaps would have been the headline in many newspapers:

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6/29/10

Category: Entertainment


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Actor Beatty's ("Deliverance") wife tells him to strip the old and install new wallpaper in the family room.

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6/28/10

Category: World Geo


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There will be discomfort all over this Australian island state in the morning as the scholastic aptitude test is being given!

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6/25/10

Category: History


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Hippie friend of Britain's political leader circa 1966, exults as he watches him open his birthday present, a light lit from the bottom and containing a soft gel that moves and grows as the light heats it.

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6/24/10

Category: Miscellaneous


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Describing Emily, shabbily dressed, unattractive, and stuck in lowly degrading, servile work.

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6/23/10

Category: Miscellaneous


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Listen, being a nincompoop is Edward's fate, isn't it?

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6/22/10

Category: Miscellaneous


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Someone explains to Eleanor what the word "leer" means.

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6/21/10

Category: Science


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Dr. Arroway in a Carl Sagan novel is informed that a flap over electrical resistance measurements has developed at the space-time distortion phenomenon that she may use to time travel.

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6/18/10

Category: Miscellaneous


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The head guy on the gang who work to unload the cargo ships persistently ridiculed and harassed the guys on the crew who had been in the army.

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6/17/10

Category: Sports/Arts


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Asa noted, nervously, that considering the pose the Yankee 3rd baseman ( 2004-??) is taking, he looks a lot like Ms Duncan who was essentially the creator of Modern Dance in America.

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6/16/10

Category: Science


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Maurice, time traveling, tells companion Rae that around the bend in the trail he can hear noise being made by a group of members of our lineage: bipedal apes of possibly the genera homo or australopithecus.

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6/15/10

Category: Miscellaneous


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To Samuel Aston? It doesn't belong to him? It belongs to Mother?

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6/14/10

Category: Miscellaneous


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Ira, the preacher, forced me to blockade the river with logs.

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6/11/10

Category: Sports/World Languages


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A famed basketball coach at Oklahoma State in the 40s, 50s, and 60s noted on the menu at Shogun a strong pasty condiment of the mustard family.

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6/10/10

Category: Sports/World Languages


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A famed basketball coach at Oklahoma State in the 40s, 50s, and 60s noted on the menu at Shogun a strong pasty condiment of the mustard family.

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6/09/10

Category: Entertainment/World Languages


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This relative of Bill Clinton's Attorney General, born in Nepal, is now living on Social Security in Los Angeles.

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6/08/10

Category: Entertainment/World Languages


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Spanglish spoken by Rachel Ray for " extremely, extremely delicious! delicious?"

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6/07/10

Category: History/World Languages


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A throng numbered at six thousand six hundred one rallied to protest a proposed " 'peace' Normanda" between King Harold and William on the eve of the famous final battle between them.

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6/04/10

Category: Arts/World Geo


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Blunt line of address on a note to a relative of the captain of the Nautilus, who, despite having a degree in science from the University of the South, had betrayed his once stellar career and was no longer worthy of being looked up to.

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6/03/10

Category: World Geo/History/Entertainment


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Motel operations which kick into high gear each spring near the big annual arts festival in Charleston, South Carolina, and which are ostensibly run by a sweet grandmotherly type , but are actually an Al Qaeda front.

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6/02/10

Category: Arts/Entertainment


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In this dialogue from a children's novel by Peggy Parish about a literal minded housekeeper Eb cries and moans in anger to the protagonist about the fact that seriously evil Bret had a part in a historic Elaine May movie flop that starred Warren Beatty.

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6/01/10

Category: World Geo


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TV sportscaster to his technician, Thomas Olson, regarding the unavailability of an instant replay on the previous action.

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5/31/10

Category: World Geo


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Cry of Indian handbag snatchers as they see money inside them.

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5/28/10

Category: Miscellaneous


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Aired out a place where the West Pointers congregate.

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5/27/10

Category: Miscellaneous


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A 16th/17th century pope who is conducting mass in a seaside church is encouraged to swipe away the devilish drink of a salty sailor who has just gotten his dally ration and brought it into the church.

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5/26/10

Category: Miscellaneous


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Someone suggests to John McEnroe that he not take his evening meal at one of the college's dining halls.

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5/25/10

Category: Miscellaneous


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Polite ,jargony upbeat question/suggestion from Pure Oil Company service station attendant when a car pulled up to the pump.

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5/24/10

Category: Miscellaneous


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Lori is told that Alvin does not care at all for the shampoo she currently uses.

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5/21/10

Category: Miscellaneous


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A gratuity at a rate if 3.14159% of the food bill.

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5/20/10

Category: Miscellaneous


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WORD UNIT TODAY

G.I.s will pay the tab, so send the itemization of items to those infantrymen.

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5/19/10

Category: Miscellaneous


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A beaver tells Salvador that the most recently built dam, made out of evergreens, was floating away.

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5/18/10

Category: Miscellaneous


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Ed is told that Del's life was one of public exposure and lascivious acts.

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5/17/10

Category: Science/Business


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So, I am getting a glass of well known Dutch beer, am I?

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5/14/10

Category: Science/Business


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In this line of dialogue Cecil is irate at the faint hint of worthless inferior garlic.

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5/13/10

Category: Science/Business


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A zookeeper explains to police how the gorillas and chimps, having been specially trained to drive and then having become very cocky, wise guy, know-it-alls about it, employ Volkswagen family sedans to break down the gate and escape.

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5/12/10

Category: Entertainment/Sports


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Mr. Douglas of "Green Acres" tell his handy man that the farm is being pummeled with eggs by those brothers of famed Boston Marathoner Joan and asks for advice.

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5/11/10

Category: World Geo/Languages:AUSTRALIA!


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A low and uncouth person standing by the river bank in Launceston, Tasmania, sharply criticizes a young lad from a Western Sydney city, the name of which means something like "place where eels lie down" in the aboriginal.

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5/10/10

Category: Entertainment


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Question from Gilda Radner to Barbara Walters during an interview, asking her if she wanted a drink.

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5/07/10

Category: Business


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This woman is asked whether Anita Pat is driving a Toyota mini-van.

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5/06/10

Category: World Geo/Entertainment


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An inmate who had slipped the matron of murderer's row in the Cooke County Jail a few bucks to get her some Beefsteak tomatoes expresses her disappointment in finding that smallish oval shaped ones were gotten instead.

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5/05/10

Category: History&Government


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Delighted comment from Clinton Attorney General that ( having taken Beano ) she now felt gas free.

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5/04/10

Category: Miscellaneous


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A lament for Antonio who had wanted to be awarded a Boy Scout troop to lead, but who did not get it.

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5/03/10

Category: Miscellaneous


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Quickly deviate off course! There's someone who's been stranded on this remote island!

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4/30/10

Category: Government


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Remark of surprised denial from dinner companion of House Speaker to her when she asks if he had been thinking about telling the waiter to bring him the flatfish from Dover.

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4/28/10

Category: Entertainment/World Geo


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A person pondering his "curriculum vitae."

Resume muser.

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4/27/10

Category: Entertainment


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The chief marketing officer for this financial news cable outfit is a guest on the 700 Club? You have to be kidding!

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4/26/10

Category: Entertainment/World Geo


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Husband of country singer McIntyre, with her on a vacation at a large estate in Bordeaux, France, tells her that he would give the highest possible rating to their premium dry red wine, made right there on the place.

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4/23/10

Category:Entertainment


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I tell Dee that I am pulling up unwanted plants from my garden using a flashlight which I use to find slimy mollusks and lent to me by my neighbor who played Agent Scully on "X-Files."

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4/22/10

Category:Miscellaneous


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Mr. Deity did not subsist only on a famed Drake's cake snack.

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4/21/10

Category:Miscellaneous


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Salvador, part of a notorious Colombian drug cartel ( scam artist; no dignity at all; a real nothing) led Emily.

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4/20/10

Category:Miscellaneous


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A call to arms via a wall painting.

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4/19/10

Category:Entertainment


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A friend of Hal excitedly points out to him the beautiful wife of Charlie Chaplin as she passes by.

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4/16/10

Category:Entertainment


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Food Network's "The Barefoot Contessa" exclaims as she wishes to herself that she had a Russet Burbank potato to bake.

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4/15/10

Category:History


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This man is physician to Eugene, a Socialist who ran for president of the U.S. several times.

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4/14/10

Category:Sports


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Reply to Yankee third basemen after he had suggested that we hold up the hot dog salesman at the stadium with almost god-like status. The answer if a definitive "no."

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4/13/10

Category:World Geo


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Fundamental tenet about how to manage a river in Germany.

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4/12/10

Category:Entertainment/History


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Reminiscing with a friend, Howie of "Deal or No Deal" asks him about an old buddy, Kyle, he had not seen in a long time. The friend tells Howie that Kyle is probably dead, done in by a bullet on his military tour of Indochina.

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4/9/10

Miscellaneous


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A girlfriend tells Emily that on occasion making love takes a lot out of her.

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4/8/10

Category:World Geo


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Edward is spread eagled across a New York subway car as if he wants to ride it.

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4/7/10

Category:World Geo/Entertainment


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Actress who wanted to "Kill Bill" carried along Alvin Slade with her to her classes in College Station, Texas

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4/6/10

Category:Miscellaneous


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Ed is asked whether either Tab, a circus performer who is currently feeling thwarted and disappointed, or West Pointer Art has headed down to the beach to check out the waves.

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4/5/10

Category:Myth


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Mustafa is told that this girl, though quite obese, is still hauntingly alluring.

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4/2/10

Category:World Geo/Entertainment


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Thank God! I can still take my Advanced Placement exam even when vacationing in Rio because it's being given in near a local beach made famous in song.

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4/1/10

Category:World Geo


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A daughter of Robert Frost, in the days before Xerox machines tells her Dad that she is going to go and run off one of his new works on the hand crank duplicating machine.

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3/31/10

Category:World Geo


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What a nothing trip! We have nothing to drink but low cal brew out of St. Louis on our tour if Ireland until we arrive in the capital.

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3/30/10

Category:World History


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A very close friend of Ataturk, founder of the Republic of Turkey, tells him that his bankroll is quite large.

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3/29/10

Category:World Geo


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Ana who works for an advertising agency presents a mock up of her billboard promoting tourism in Danang.

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3/26/10

Category:Entertainment


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A fan encourages a pop singer not to go "Downtown" and suggests that she "Don't Sleep in the Subway" as he hands her a medieval stringed instrument to play instead.

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3/25/10

Category:Science/Sports


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Notre Dame's football coach circa 1970 is playing tennis with his good buddy, a professor in the physics department. After having just been beaten by a well placed high arcing shot over his head while he was at the net, the coach asks the prof what kind of curve it followed. He gets this response.

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3/24/10

Category:World Geo/Busines


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Killing well known people is a sideline for this woman whose day job is working for Scandinavian Airways.

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3/23/10

Category:World Geo


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Memo from a great fan of this Central Florida coastal community on US Highway 1 and State Highway 60, saying that he never wants to leave.

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3/22/10

Category:World Geo/Science


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Piece written by Scott Joplin for some Athens Bulldogs.

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3/19/10

Category:World Geo/Science


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Comment from bird farmer to Alvin who wanted to buy one of the man's white herons, but is told that there is only one left and it has already been promised to a well known prep school in New Hampshire.

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3/18/10

Category:Miscellaneous


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A king makes a command to a chicken.

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3/17/10

Category:Sports/Science/World Geo


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Screenplay line wherein Ed, a non-descript American male, exults in Spanish fashion at the city's signatory crustacean delight he had at Mona's restaurant while attending the 1992 Olympics.

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3/16/10

Category:Government/World Geo


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Extremely low on the totem pole as a bureaucrat devoted to administering environmental policy, Al gave no thought whatsoever to suggesting that his agency open an office closer to his home town, a suburb north of Dallas.

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3/15/10

Category:Entertainment/History/Geo


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Viola, a movie director, recounts in her memoirs about when she was directing a film on the Battle of Vicksburg, and she yelled out to one of her actors, Dell, to put more of a period accent into his lines.

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3/12/10

Category:Sports/Business


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Del is told that in making the spaghetti, the famed boxing writer has used three times the called for amount of a well known commercial sauce.

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3/11/10

Category:Entertainment


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Reply of red-blooded Italian male circa 50s/60s when asked what would be his # 1 fantasy, as he contemplated a liaison with a famed actress of the period.

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3/10/10

Category:Arts


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Broadcast 'caro nome' or 'la donna e mobile.'

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3/09/10

Category:Business/Arts


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A shady retirement income vehicle purportedly investing in pieces of abstract art in which lines, forms, and space are organized in such a way as to provide optical illusions of an ambiguous nature, as alternately advancing and receding squares on a flat surface.

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3/08/10

Category:Science/World Geo


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Mr. Roby is told that the Chinese company, manufacturing a half man/ half machine, in which he was considering an investment, was a scam.

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3/05/10

Category:Science/Business


Clue



( Having switched from computers to biology) Wang computer founder tells Damon that he has broken the genetic code of a malignant epithelial cancer tumor in this line of dialogue from a play about the research.

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3/04/10

Category:Entertainment


Clue



(Before she became a gossip columnist) Ms. Barrett was embarrassed by and flummoxed by the botched takeout order she mishandled.

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3/03/10

Category:World Geo


Clue



Having come to the United States to organize an orgy, a sadist Marquis is told that they one of the invitees, from Topeka, was there and ready to participate, all ready to go and nude just like Edward who was already there.

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3/02/10

Category:Entertainment


Clue



The nemesis of the Dukes of Hazzard is told that Mr.Oh is a real bastard.

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3/01/10

Category:Arts/Business


Clue



Alan Greenspan is having dream conversation with British author Wells ( Time Machine) and tells him that the bottom line is that after a lot of thought he will raise interest rates.

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2/26/10

Category:Arts


Clue



In "Les Miserables" the woman who loves Mariius, who unfortuntely ooves someone else, responds negatively about whether she will ever trust males again in this line of dialogue.

-------: ---? _? ----!

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2/25/10

Category:Arts


Clue



In this line of dialogue from 20,0000 Leagues Under the Sea, a group of citified women confidently tell the captain that they have grabbed Ill mannered Russell.

" ----, -- --- ---- ----," ------- ------ -----.

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2/24/10

Category:History&Government


Clue



Nervous suggestion to former Israeli PM Begin to fire Emily from his entourage.

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2/23/10

Category:Business


Clue



When Eleanor says she wants information about Texas Instruments, she is given this advice.

-.-., --? ------ --!

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2/22/10

Category:World Geo


Clue



The woman of Chinese/Mexican extraction pastors a church.

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2/19/10

Category:Entertainment/History&Government


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Stand-up at a fund raiser by prominent performers and supporters of Obama/Biden et al.

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2/18/10

Category:Miscellaneous


Clue



A frog hunter tells Margaret what he does to them.

---, - --- '--.

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2/17/10

Category:World Geo


Clue



Sol is not up to speed on his knowledge of Indians who lived in New Mexico.

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2/16/10

Category:Miscellaneous


Clue



Negative, Don, those are my jeans.

--, -----'- ----, ---.

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2/15/10

Category:Business


Clue



In a line of dialogue from a novel, Emilty tells Arthur that she is in the process of obtaining people whose job it is to devise a strategy for dealing with the newspapers, TV, etc.

"----- ----------- - ---, ---" ---- --.

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2/12/10

Category:miscellaneousSports


Clue



Salvador is told that famed Finnish distance runner Viren had placed an order of long stemmed crimson ones at the florist.

-----'- -----'- --- -----, ---.

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2/11/10

Category:World Geo


Clue



I put the kibosh in the idea of using migrant farm workers from from Enid, Tulsa, Norman, Ada, Stillwater, etc.

-----' --- - -.-.

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2/10/10

Category:Entertainment


Clue



Betty uses this to keep the dust down.

---- ---.

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2/9/10

Category:Business


Clue



Possible hedged answer to the question, "What motorcycle manufacturer might do best the year?"

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2/08/10

Category:Science


Clue



Kerouac fans mauling teaching assistant Eb skinned him alive.

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2/05/10

Category:Science


Clue



Comment of a man who likes to talk to his cat after the cat has indicated to him that it detected volcanic flows which the man thinks will precede earthquakes associated with an eruption.

----, --, ----? - ---- --------!

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2/04/10

Category:Entertainment/World Geo/Sports


Clue



Comedian Silverman is told that the hallucinogenic drugs found in the desert in North Africa belong to a former Notre Dame football coach.

-----, ------ ---- ---'-.

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2/03/10

Category:Entertainment


Clue



Someone points out that an early James Bond nemesis has gotten into Evelyn's store of deer meat.

--'- -- --'- -------.

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2/02/10

Category:Miscellaneous


Clue



Daniel, a high ranking navy official introduces himself to Larry, whom he has just met but is already calling by a nickname and in effect suggestion that Larry do the dame.

---, -'- ---, -- -------.

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2/01/10

Category:Miscellaneous


Clue



Terse statement put out by 20th century Italian central bankers after a meeting concerning worries over there currency. The statement indicates that they thought about the situation and decided that there was really nothing to worry about.

---- --------. -- -----.

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1/29/10

Category:Miscellaneous


Clue



That long looped rope with the nose at the end doing all those crazy tricks is so huge!

----- ----'- -- --------!

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1/28/10

Category:Science/World Geo


Clue



The embarrassed staff at a newly built but currently broken again atom smasher located just west of a National Forest of the same name in Central Florida.

--- --- ----- --------.

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1/27/10

Category:Entertainment


Clue



Hey, shoot a copy to the doctor on the "Enterprise."

--, -- -----.

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1/26/10

Category:World Geo


Clue



Concerning the airport in San Francisco.

-- ---.

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1/25/10

Category:Entertainment


Clue



A friend of actor Neeson ( "Schindler's List") tells him that it has been a very long time since he heard from him via email.

----, ----! -- -----.

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1/22/10

Category:Science/World Geo


Clue



A Northwest African scientist new to the European Organization for Nuclear Research is being shown around and someone points out to him the area where the scientists can relax, play games, recreate, etc.

----, ---- --- ----.

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1/21/10

Category:Business


Clue



Heavens, no, Nan, the name of that company isn't pronounced "Erca."

--, --, ---, ---, -- -------!

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1/20/10

Category:Miscellaneous


Clue



Statement by Benjamin, a library worker that he had just cross referenced 9 accounts of peoples lives.

-- -, ---, ------- ---- ----.

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1/19/10

Category:Business/World Geo


Clue



Edward is told that the founder of the computer company bearing his name, headquartered in Round Rock, Texas was against doing a survey to see if his workers wanted to set up an employee stock ownership plan.

---- ------- ---- ----, --.

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1/18/10

Category:History/Sports


Clue



Mrs. Peron thought about why the crowd did not go into that stadium wide contagion cheer from the 70s when she was introduced at the outdoor rally.

--- --------, " -- ----?"

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1/15/10

Category:Arts


Clue



You don't say! So they've instituted a prohibition against doing way, way too much "Swan Lake," "Nutcracker," etc., even if they could get Baryshnikov, Nuryev, etc.

-- ----! - --- -- - ------ -.-.!

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1/14/10

Category:Entertainment/Science


Clue



Members of the high wire act are encouraged to unsheathe their knives and take action when the killer whales got loose.

---- -----, --------!

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1/13/10

Category:Entertainment/World Geo


Clue



Folk singer who starred in "The Dirty Dozen" is told that Enid had dinner while riding the New York Subway.

-----, ---- --- ---- -- ---.

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1/12/10

Category:Sports/World Geo


Clue



A man exclaims to Warren Spahn's follower in a famous 50s Braves "weather wish" that he take a look at the flowers grown by his Native American neighbor in Utah.

----, --- --------!

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1/11/10

Category:Miscellaneous


Clue



A friend tells Damon that the psychiatrist recommended to him, Dr. Elton, was not able to help him through his insanity. .

--, ------- ----- --- --- ------, -----.

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1/8/10

Category:Miscellaneous


Clue



Body art using carbon particles of incomplete combustion harvested from a chimney.

---- -------.

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1/7/10

Category:Entertainment


Clue



I tell Emily that "Kunta Kinte" from 'Roots" showed tremendous intestinal fortitude when he laid a wager on me.

--, ----, ----- ----- --- -- --.

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1/6/10

Category:World Geo


Clue



Describing frequent airline trips into Southern California.

-- --- - ---.

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1/5/10

Category:Science


Clue



An incredible number of electric generators!

-- ---- -------!

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1/4/10

Category:History


Clue



Gore departed, mac.

-- ----, -----.

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1/1/10

Category:Miscellaneous


Clue



A soldier is told not to try out his "psychic" powers while he is peeling potatoes.

-- --- -- --.

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