No. 299: "What Would Jesus Sue?"
In England, a group of 40 independent Christian schools plans to petition the European Court of Human Rights to have the ban lifted. Ban on what?
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Tuesday's Question(No 298)--"Fair Play":
"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?
"He invented a ride to sell to the fair that involved stationary painted horses that revolve on a circular platform to calliope music. He called it the Ferris Go Round."--Merrill Markoe
"He won a blue ribbon for best hairdresser. Nobody has the heart to tell him that this simply means he'll fetch a higher price at auction, where he'll be sold off to a rendering plant."--Tim Carvell
"A representative of the news media asked him a question and wrote down his answer and his name in a spiral notebook."--William Considine
"Doing a wash and comb-out to a stick of spun sugar."--Sean Fitzpatrick (Ben Heller had a similar answer referencing the bearded lady's beard; as did Ian O'Henley referring to the Ape Woman from Borneo)
"He was touched by a Hell's Angel."--Francis Heaney (similar, but less tender, Floyd Elliot)
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