No. 304: "Hee, Hee, Hee"
You give the lead, I give the headline from Wednesday's London Mirror: "He's Huge, He's Powerful, He's Fast and He's Mean."
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Tuesday's Question (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?
"Donny Osmond, on a good Mormon friend's year of 54 divorces."--Tim Carvell
"Former Chief Eunuch Li Ming on Emperor Pu-Yi's approval rating in 1911. Damn that infernal Sun Yat-Sen."--David Lofquist
"Gregory Peck about Charlton Heston's moving up the list of Hollywood's All-Time Assholes."--Marshall Efron
"I don't know, but in the metric system he would have gone from 100 to 10: Now, really, isn't that a lot easier?"--Floyd Elliot
"During his father's primary campaign, George W. Bush watched Pat Buchanan go from 1992 to 1938, the heyday of Father Coughlin, dragging the Republican Party with him. Now the party is trying to prevent him from jumping ship. Just because you're repositioning yourself as compassionate, doesn't mean you want to lose the wacko vote altogether."--Daniel Radosh
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