No. 303: "Decline and Fall"
"That was a miserable year, when I watched a great man, a man I love more than life--you know, one of the really fundamentally solid, decent people--go from 92 to 38 in a very quick period of time." Who watched whom go from 92 to 38 what?
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Monday's Question (No. 302)--"It's Back":
"It's back, and we used it this summer. But they don't want us to use it too much. It's not going to be a big deal." Who said this about what?
"Doctors at Kaiser Permanente talking about the hospital's heart-lung machine."--Jon Greenberg
"The Indonesian military on ethnic cleansing."--Kenton A. Hoover
"The president; speaking about use of the Delta Force to combat oddball religious groups and political dissenters who have it coming."--Chris Thomas
"The promotion director of Sony's music division; about Jennifer Lopez's butt."--Francis Heaney
"It was the caption for last Tuesday's Family Circus, where Dolly is showing Jeffy the family crack pipe."--Noah Meyerson
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