No. 336: "Three for All"
Planned Parenthood, the Museum of Natural History, CNN--what's the connection?
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Wednesday's Question (No. 335)--"Wall Nuts":
In Germany yesterday for the 10th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, former President Bush reminisced about some bad advice he received a decade ago: "In my view, that would have been an open provocation, tantamount to sticking our fingers in the eyes of the Soviet military." Who advised him to do what?
"Dan Quayle, who is stupid, advised Bush to do something stupid to the Russians, because, you see, Quayle is not very smart, in fact Quayle is stupid."--Wellesley Wild
"George W. advised his father to 'Get tough on that Russian guy. General something. Wears that funny looking hat.' "--Greg Narver
"Whatever it was, it couldn't have been worse than sending Billy Joel to play Moscow."--Daniel Radosh (Al Petrosky had a similar answer.)
"Barb wanted to flash her black sports bra as she went through Checkpoint Charlie."--Sean Fitzpatrick
"An Oktoberfestively drunk Henry Kissinger egged him on to use the stiff corpse of Lenin to chip off a hunk of wall."--Beth Sherman
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