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"Diana Ross and her faux Supremes are appearing on The View, and Barbara is in for Lisa today."—Mark Wade (M.G. Lord, Cliff Schoenberg, Barbara Lippert, Greg Castanias, Jonathan Jeffries, Peter Carlin, Chris Kelly, Beth Sherman, Michael Koegel, Greg Narver, Gary Drevitch, and David Ballard had similar answers.)

"They celebrate Passover in China?"—Daniel Radosh (similarly, Adam Bonin)

"Menorahs? Wait ... no ... wait … yeah, that works! Menorahs!"—Daniel Kahn

"A very bad Sunday morning awakening."—Jake Tapper

"The staff at McDonald's?"—Colin Delaney

"I'm going to go for the obvious here and guess 'the cast of Cocoon.' The new form is that many of them are now dead."—Tim Carvell

"Oh, come now. Aside from Jacques d'Amboise, the seven brothers don't look so great these days either."—Peter Lerangis

"We (I, at least) call them the 'toothless liberal press corps,' but I find the Chinese expression more poetic and intend to begin using it."—Rose "I like my journalism with a bite" White

"It's great that the Chinese want to open up their country, but they really have to work on titling their porn."—Kevin Guilfoile

"I'm sure the Chinese would respect our oil companies a little more if we could just wean them from their bicycles."—Mark Wade

"The mysterious Bulgarian Women's Choir."—Charles Mikecz Vamossy

"Another new talk show on Oxygen."—Arthur T.S. Jackson

"The audience of The Early Show on CBS."—Greg Sainsbury

"Sexy."—Colin Delaney

"The Village People."—Larry Amoros

"The Who's latest farewell tour."—Stu Clark (similarly, Brooke Saucier and Jon Drumwright)

"The fine stars of Beverly Hills 90210."—Chris Kelly

"The Red Sox bullpen."—Charlie Glassenberg (similarly but the Mets, Chris Kelly; the Cubs, Floyd Elliot; New York Rangers, Joe Bernstein and Alex Balk; San Antonio Spurs, Tim Annett)

"Oh, man, are the Bangles and the Go-Gos really doing a tour together?"—Floyd Elliot

"Those idiots driving slow in the left lane."—Gary Frazier

"Mah-jongg tiles."—David Finkle

"The front row of any Ray Stevens concert."—Andrew Milner

"The Rockettes."—Chris Kelly

"The Supreme Court: now online!"—Adam Bonin (similarly, Charlie Glassenberg and Gary Frazier)

"New Seven Grannies With Eight Teeth Between Them Plus Concentrated Bleach. It's amazing to see what off-brands you can find at the dollar store."—Mark Wade

"The Beardstown Ladies, still gung-ho on Nasdaq."—P. Mattick (similarly, Anthony Bongiorni )

"Josie and the Pussycats, not aging well."—Matt Sullivan

"The Fed Board of Governors. Those Chinese can be so cruel."—Tim Carvell

"Redbook, McCall's, Ladies Home Journal, Better Homes & Gardens, Good Housekeeping, Woman's Day, Family Circle."—Tamara Glenny (editor of the Seventeen article supposedly offered as "anti-drug content" to the drug czar in return for advertising, as discussed in salon.com and recently featured in News Quiz—and proud of it)

"Trent Lott, Jesse Helms, Bob Barr, Ken Starr, Strom Thurmond, Henry Hyde, and Tom DeLay."—David Swanson

"Brokaw, Jennings, Rather, King, Walters, Wallace, and Chung?"—Jon Drumwright

"Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, Susan Collins, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Mary Landrieu, Barbara Mikulski, and Olympia Snow. But not Patty Murray, because she's less of a granny and more of a soccer mom."—Jon Bourgault

"The only lame-ass fireworks that are legal here in Michigan. I need to drive to Toledo if I want 'Flaming Monkey Rockets' or 'Tiger Death Spirals.' "—Mark "Nine-Finger" Wade

"Just another stupid unsolicited porno chat popping up on AOL. Not interested ...but if you get any hot pics, pass them on."—Brent "I usually go for Grandpa, but hey I can swing" Danzig

"The Golden Girls. No, there's only four of them. Macbeth's weird sisters ... three. Ah. I've got it now, maybe. The Weird Golden Sisters? Does putting them together add up to seven or average out to three-and-a-half?"—Francis Heaney (similarly, Gary Frazier, Anthony Wright, Deborah Wassertzug, and Mark Romoser)

"Answer: Have Wellesley, Vassar, and the other Seven Sisters re-engineered themselves again?"—Ross Levatter

"Owing to a new, improved translation, the Chinese people will no longer be baffled by the story of Snow White."—Peter Lerangis (similarly, Carrie Rickey, Doug Ingram, and Steven Davis)

"The people who still know it should read 'eight teeth among them.' "—Howard Franklin (similarly, Daniel Radosh)

"We call them mitochondria—and now they're 28 percent peppier than toothless grannies! The charming granny reference will be reused to make the endoplasmic reticulum feel less boring and squiggly."—Laura Miller

"The Rolling Stones."—Merrill Markoe, Jon Hotchkiss, Jason Pontin, and Jon "IMF correspondent" Zerolnick

Mythology-Reference Corner

"Before I begin my answer, I would like to remind you of part of the Greek legend of Cadmus. You see, after the dragon Draco had killed Cadmus' friends, Cadmus slew the mighty beast and took its teeth and, at the suggestion of Pallas Athena, sowed them in the ground, and out sprang a race of mighty warriors that became the founders of the city of Thebes. I'd also like to mention the Graeae, who shared one eye between the three of them, who Perseus tricked into helping him slay the Gorgon Medusa. Perhaps that's the crux of this question: Put me down as similarly for anything involving Greeks 'slewing' or 'slaying.' Maybe Aristotle Onassis."—Gerald Bergen

"The Chinese were, of course, referring to the Pleiades (a k a the seven daughters of Atlas). They've just moved from Taurus to a quiet retirement in Pisces, simultaneously switching from a red meat diet to an easily chewable fish menu (as their doctors have recommended)."—Lynn Rosetta-Cusick

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