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No. 329: "Ladies Foist"

"Please be a lady," Sen. Jesse Helms chided Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif., in a Senate hearing room Tuesday. Then he sicced the cops on her. What had Rep. Woolsey done?

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Wednesday's Question (No. 328)--"Hello, Wieners":

A study by the Department of Health and Human Services shows that kids are four times as likely to do it on Halloween as on any other evening. Do what?

"Turn off the television and go outside."--Neal Pollack (Peter Carlin had a similar answer.)

"Strangle another child with a gummy worm."--Nell Scovell

"Pick up a bacterial infection from hanging around the undead."--Merrill Markoe

"Can I give a shout out to my peeps? Yo, yo, what up Shacky and T? Keepin' it real in da H-town."--Jon W. Davis

"Trick or treat. And frankly, the number seems a tad low to me."--Tim Carvell

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