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No. 349: "Uncarded Moment"

This year 10 million free online holiday greeting cards have been sent via Bluemountain.com. About a million of them have something in common. What?

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Monday's Question (No. 348)--"Whose Deal?":

"These are the big cards we still have to play. Beyond that, I think that, frankly, the likelihood of success is quite small." Who said this about what desperate effort to save what precarious venture?

"Network executives, re their encouraging the remaining cast members of Suddenly Susan to commit suicide in Las Vegas, in an effort to boost ratings."--Larry Amoros (Greg Narver had a similar, and all-nude, answer.)

"What a load of hooey. Tina's just trying to get more money out of the Weinsteins."--Dave Gaffen (similarly, John J. Edwards III, Evan Cornog, and Jeff Brax)

"That's Rupert Murdoch, explaining why he had to kill off Joey Adams and John Podhoretz in the same week in order to make the New York Post seem even remotely serious."--Peter Carlin

"Steve Jobs, discussing the future of Apple and 'Operation Critical Path,' his final trump card to destroy the Microsoft empire."--Dale Shuger

"Save the Mars Polar Lander or don't, just someone tell NASA it's blocking my driveway."--Dennis Cass

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