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No. 165: "Old Whine, New Bottle"

FBI Special Agent Frank Scafidi says, "Everybody gets freaked. You shut down the operation. The perp got his kick. This is just the 1998 version."

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What new thing is the 1998 version of what old thing?

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Monday's question (No. 164)--"Joy!":

"My joy is that we're still in business and we're alive."

Who said this about what?

"A bus driver, about the New York to Atlantic City run."--Daniel Radosh (Beth Sherman had a similar answer.)

"The owner of a Baghdad pharmacy first identified as a 'missile silo.' "--Charles Star (similarly, David Ballard)

"Rebbe Schneerson said it last week, two days before Christmas, because he was feeling so goooooood."--Marshall Efron

"Phil Knight, CEO of Nike, forced by inclement weather to abandon his attempt to become the first man to circumnavigate the globe riding on the back of an 11-year-old Indonesian girl."--James Poniewozik

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