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No. 300: "First Sight"

"I've never seen one of these," President Clinton said Monday, as he used something for the first time. Apparently he enjoyed the experience: "Now that I'm a homeowner, I better get one of these." What was it, and what did he do with it?

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Thursday's Question (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?

"The use of 'Baby I'm-a Want You' in the regular rotation of morning hymns."--Bill Scheft

"Those new British 'People's Crucifixes' with Princess Diana hanging on the cross."--Molly Shearer Gabel

"British beef-based religious objects."--Richard Nikonovich-Kahn (MelodyYiu had a similarly beefy answer.)

"Teaching creationism as science, and the Narnia books as history."--Floyd Elliot

"Hunting, with horse and hounds, the smallest boy in the fourth form."--Kim Day

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