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No. 163: "Initiation"

As a condition of joining the European Union, Lithuania has agreed to ban a practice quite common in the United States. What?

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Tuesday's question (No. 162)--"Check It Twice":

The list includes Louis Vuitton handbags, Mont Blanc pens, pecorino cheese, and cashmere sweaters, pullovers, sweat shirts, and waistcoats. List of what?

"A complete inventory of items destroyed in the bombing raid on the Republican Guard headquarters in downtown Baghdad."--Michael Connelly (R.C. Leander and M. Pesca had similar answers.)

"The list is obviously a paragraph pulled at random from Tom Wolfe's A Man in Full, but where the hell are the exclamation points?"--Alex Balk

"All items soon to acquire the 'Intel Inside' logo."--Todd York

"In an alternate universe, where Tina Brown still ran The New Yorker, each was going to have its own special issue."--Chris Kelly

"Items that former future Speaker of the House Bob Livingston has had affairs with outside of his marriage. (Please note, his wife has forgiven all but the handbag)."--Larry Amaros

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