Five years ago, at a cost of $1,200, Vicksburg, Miss., erected two identical signs. Now one has been spray-painted with the word "hypocrite," and the other has been smashed to pieces. What do the signs say?

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Thursday's Question (No. 280)--"Perturbed":
According to the Times of London, around the first of the year, something will happen on Long Island that scientists believe has a small but genuine chance of causing "perturbations of the universe" that could destroy the world. What will happen?

(Question courtesy of Jennifer Miller.)

"Hey! Lay off Bernadette Peters. She's settled down now."--Al Petrosky

"According to Pierre Salinger, the U.S. Navy will resume testing of the same missiles that brought down TWA Flight 800."--Chris Thomas

"The Gimelsteins, of Lawrence, will order tastefully understated invitations to their daughter's bat mitzvah."--Jordan Kroop

"Peggy Siegel will list Mort Zuckerman as a 'confirmed arrival' even though he hasn't RSVP'd."--Hendrik Hertzberg

"A trumpet will sound and John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. will rise out of the Sound, clothed in pure white, shining like the sun, surrounded by the hosts of heaven."--Richard A. DeCamp

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