No. 426: "Wave Goodbye"
Scientists have discovered something at the bottom of the Atlantic, 60 miles offshore, that could threaten Virginia and North Carolina. What?
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Monday's Question (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?
"Cut off Andrew Sullivan's testosterone feed."—Daniel Kahn (Dina Freedman had an all but identical answer.)
"Lower the national 30-drink minimum."—Omer Benjakob
" 'Shandy,' the popular British concoction of lemonade and beer, will become a popular British concoction of lemonade and horse tranquilizer when consumed after 10 p.m."—Josh Kamensky (similarly, Tim Carvell)
"Finally swallow their collective pride and buy tasty, uncontaminated Argentine beef."—Deborah "Las Malvinas Son Argentinas!" Wassertzug
"No longer will the 11 p.m. news end with the sign-off line 'Good night, and we exhort you all to menace people, vomit, and fight.' "—Francis Heaney
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