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Saturday Quizzical: PARTS IS PARTS
EXAMPLE: PARTS: HEN, TEN, NET, NTH ORIGINAL WORD: THEN CHALLENGE: The following ten words were all made by selecting and re-arranging letters from a longer Original word; all the letters in the original word can be found among the Parts words. PARTS: NASTY, NEAPS, PANTY, PASTE, PRATE, SATYR, TEARY, TRAPS,TREYS,YEARN ORIGINAL WORD: ??? Submit replies as always to Barbara Bryce. Answer to [...]
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21. June 2008
What do the following actors have in common? 1) Clint Eastwood 2) Tom Cruise 3) Ice Cube 4) Kurt Russell 5) Gil Gerard 6) Nicholas Cage 7) Mel Blanc Send answers to Comical editor Barbara Bryce. The solution will be posted here next Saturday, along with next week’s quiz.
Continue reading...Hollywood Tickler: McCain to star in remake of Grumpy Old Men.
17. June 2008
Hollywood will soon be remaking Grumpy Old Men, a 1993 motion picture starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau as two elderly retirees competing for the attention of Ann-Margaret. McCain, if he fails to become President of the United States, is slated for the role originally played by Walter Matthau.
Continue reading...Hollywood Tickler: Obama to star in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
17. June 2008
Barack Obama, should he not be elected, is first in line for the starring role in an updated version of Jimmy Stewart’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, the story of a novice politician who takes on the Washington establishment and wins. An eloquent orator, Obama would presumably have to work to duplicate Stewart’s trademark stammer.
Continue reading...Listen to the Mockingbird
14. June 2008
The rape conviction of Tom Robinson, whose story was dramatized in Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill A Mockingbird has been posthumously overturned after retired attorney Jean Louise Finch-Edmonds (better known as “Scout” from Lee’s novel) filed a petition with the Alabama Supreme Court. On the basis of a DNA analysis performed on the [...]
Continue reading...It’s 1984 All Over Again
12. May 2008
The estate of writer George Orwell is suing the Bush administration for copyright infringement, alleging that the administration’s signature political tactics were taken directly from the deceased author’s classic dystopian novel 1984. White House press secretary Dana Perino, when asked for the President’s reaction to the pending litigation, said she would raise the issue with [...]
Continue reading...The Countdown Factor
12. May 2008
Scientists today confirmed what many have suspected for some time: Keith Olbermann (host of Countdown on MSNBC) and Bill O’Reilly (host of The O’Reilly Factor on Fox News) are two halves of the same person, split into their Good and Evil halves by an experimental teleportation device. When the scientists who developed the device finally [...]
Continue reading...No Hope for Snopes?
12. May 2008
The Snopes website is leaving us, going the way of many other websites that have seen a huge drop-off in their advertising revenue. The World Wide Web’s most reliable watchdog will be “off the air” by the end of the month. Snopes will be missed by many, since without them around to sort internet fact [...]
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28. June 2008
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