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Columbine students resumed classes Monday at nearby Chatfield High School. Many wore white T-shirts imprinted on the front with "We Are ..." and on the back ... what?
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Monday's Question (No. 235) "Pork Quoi?": A big half-page ad running in many papers today features a photo of four piglets vigorously suckling a sow's teats. An ad for what?

"A law firm specializing in medical malpractice suits (photo is of Pamela Anderson)."--Ellen Macleay

"The Montreal Expos' all-new, low-budget 'farm' system."--Neal Pollack

"I don't know, but Michael Medved's CONVINCED that this ad directly leads to school shootings."--Andrew Milner

"Bob Barr's 'Open Letter' tribute to the NRA."--Richard Nikonovich-Kahn (Barry Johnson had a similar answer.)

"Got Pig? The other white milk."--Steve Joynt (similarly, Bruce Oberg, James Poniewozik, Bjorn, and Steven Davis)

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Randy's Wrap-Up

To most participants, the pig symbolizes greed. None associated the pig with its traditional attributes, dirty or foul smelling. None exploited "pig" as an epithet for policeman. There were no pigs in pokes, no when pigs fly, no in a pig's ear, no Pigmeat Markham, no pork salad Annie, no Gadarene swine, no Piggly Wiggly, no E. B. White's Wilbur, no there in the wood the piggy-wig stood. No three littles. No pearls before. No turning men into. How did we lose our rich tradition of porcine references? Did it all go wrong when we left the farm? Many's the happy hour we spent by the sty, a volume of Greek mythology in our trotters, contemplating the particularly rank aroma of our enemies. Well, we're city folk now, and our foes wear deodorant. And carry Prada bags. Made of ... oh, my lord! No!

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