"I'm so excited!" hairstylist Richard Ferris said Monday at the Syracuse, N.Y., State Fair. "This is the most exciting thing that has ever happened to me." What happened to Ferris?

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Thursday's Question(No 297)--"Ick":

Fill in the blank as John Christakos, president of Blu Dot Design and Manufacturing, discusses the latest trends in his industry. "We worried people would say, 'Oh, ick, see the _____________.' That hasn't happened."

"Gills on that cow."--Floyd Elliot

"Dead people falling off the thrill rides."--Pamela Weishaar

"Crushed appendages of our Third World workers."--David Lofquist

"Way Richard Nixon's face bleeds off the side of the urinal cake. In fact, aim has improved by 80 percent since we introduced these."--Kate Wing

"Dead Turks--or ugly modular furniture constructed to shoddy specs."--Molly Shearer Gabel

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