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No. 360: "Our Epic"

The '50s begat Happy Days; the '60s, The Wonder Years; the '70s, That '70s Show; and the '80s, Freaks and Geeks. In 20 years, the 1990s will be distilled into a set of reductive clichés and processed into a TV sitcom. Give the one-sentence pitch for that show. (Question courtesy of Tim Carvell.)

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Tuesday's Question (No. 359)--"Peril? Us?":

Government officials and industry experts have begun to caution Americans about "speed creep"--meaning?

"That goddamn Ralph Nader and his shifty eyes."--Francis Heaney

"Antonyms. Watch out for antonyms."--Tim Carvell (Floyd Elliot had a similar answer.)

"Internet pharmacist."--William Vehrs

"I knew that Jim Carrey liked to run around nude, but I didn't realize he had become such a menace to our highways."--Barbara Lippert (similarly, Tim Annett)

"The Einsteinian possibility that the third millennium will arrive sometime next month."--David Finkle

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