No. 425: "English Lessons"
For Manchester police Sgt. Tom McAndrew, like many of his English colleagues, trouble comes each night at 11:30 and includes menacing behavior, vomiting in the street, and fistfights at taxi stands—three problems with a single cause. But at last, the British are going to do something about it. What?
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Thursday's Question (No. 424)—"Strike Up the Banned":
They're noisy, they're antiquated, and they smell terrible, and now says Donald Barry, assistant secretary of interior for fish and wildlife and parks, they "are no longer welcome in our national parks." What won't we be seeing at Yellowstone? (The Jagger-free zone is invoked.—Ed.)
"Chickenpigs."—Michael Wilson
"The Beardstown Ladies."—Daniel Kahn
"Wooden shoes?"—John Haines
"Pamela Anderson Lee's original breasts."—Doug Ingram
"Those little animated Santas, riding electric razors through the snow."—Peter G. Eipers
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