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2/3/12

History/Business


Clue



Response to Thomas Edison who had asked what brand of pickle he was eating.

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2/2/12

Entertainment/Business


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Do not harangue Virginia Christine now for having to say over and over "It's the richest kind" in all her Folger's commercials.

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2/1/12

World Geo


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When a famed KC Royal Hall of Famer third baseman decides to go mountain climbing in Switzerland, he is given this piece of advice, not to fall, splashing and scattering his body parts.

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1/31/12

World Geo


Clue



A Russian immigrant woman who works at an auto repair and who has laryngitis tells her friend Evelyn the baby doctor that she will repair the glove compartment in her car.

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1/30/12

Entertainment


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A young woman in trouble states that she had gotten Frasier Crane's brother irate.

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1/27/12

Entertainment/World Languages


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Actress of yore Carol, forced to go to the dentist in Mexico city, hears a DDS there give his opinion of her rather ordinary looking, non-descript grinding teeth.

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1/26/12

History


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Civil War plea from General Meade circa 1864 that his army be sent uniforms that would better hide them from the enemy.

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1/25/12

Miscellaneous


Clue



Rudolph sarcastically questions another reindeer about whether his cold has irritated his nose to the point of being raw, mocking the way he sounds as he talks, and reminding the other of how they used to make fun of him and , well, now it's payback time.

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1/25/12

Science/Technology


Clue



Installation on the Interstate to trap speeders who are trying to exceed the sound barrier.

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1/23/12

Miscellaneous


Clue



I tell everyone that I was "shanghaied" by Emily Dickenson, Johnny Depp and President Eisenhower.

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1/20/12

Miscellaneous


Clue



In a line of dialogue from a play, Lee, none too subtle, tells Caren that he is impressed by her bosom.

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1/19/12

Entertainment/World Geo


Clue



James Bond's nemesis caught venereal disease, thus effectively stopping the swindle he had going involving Everest expeditions.

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1/18/12

Sports


Clue



At a charity golf game in the early 1960s as a team of Pittsburgh Pirate ball players arrive at the first tee, the starter announces to them that they cannot tee off until their 4th, Bill the centerfielder, arrives and does so.

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1/17/12

Entertainment/History


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In a children's book which ultimately became controversial because of allegations of racist overtones, the title character in broken English tells his dad that he needs to go to the bathroom right away: #2! Probably because of all those pancakes! Now that I think about it, it is also a pun!

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1/16/12

World History


Clue



Casual conversation with the "Sweater Girl" on the movie set proves to be trite and lacking in originality.

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1/13/12

World History


Clue



In 1910 Solly saw a picture of the president and right then and there speculated about whether he had been on a diet.

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1/12/12

World Geo/Languages


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In a line of dialogue from a play, Edward from Los Angeles tells Del that the mafia, via its rep, using a crude bodily function, rejects the agreement they were purported to have made.

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1/11/12

World Geo/Languages


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A visitor of the duchess and her husband at their sprawling estate calls out to no one in particular, yet all responsible by implication, that the dish served with a topping of ice cream was excellent!

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1/10/12

World Geo


Clue



One staff member at a wine newsletter tells another to cry out to a third, Ava, questioning whether they should give a negative review of recent product coming out of several wineries north of San Francisco.

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1/09/12

Miscellaneous


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A rabid non-smoker asks her companion Emily to blow her cigarette smoke in the other direction.

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1/06/12

Miscellaneous


Clue



School principal questions ill teacher Rosemary who is going on leave on why she has no course outline to give to the substitute.

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1/05/12

World Languages/Geo


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Spanish woman politely confirms that the Slavic man is very shy.

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1/04/12

History/Entertainment/Sports


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The athletic director and some of the coaches at a university are taking a class in Judaism so as better to relate to their Jewish players. The instructor had assigned a paper on Jewish religious law which he INSISTED must be in on time.When his paper was not ready that fateful day in class, one of his buds intoned a la "Dragnet" how his name would be forever disgraced in the class for allowing this to happen. Here is what his pal said:

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1/03/12

World Geo/Sports


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At a riot at a minor league ball game in the 1950s in Sioux City, Iowa, one of the perpetrators tells another to rip off a single seat chair with no back from the bathroom.

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1/02/12

World Geo


Clue



This is a series of 12 related palindromes. In the Clue below, each (#*........*) corresponds to a clue.

Clue: (Category = World Geo) At a University in Dallas, Texas there was discovered a ( 1*school manuscript*)
(1) --- --.
in the vaults of the library. It described one fall afternoon when ( 2* law school graduates of the university*)
(2) --- --- -----.
decided to sell (3* corsages grown in the university's ag department*)
(3) --- ----.
to (4*mothers of the football players*)
(4) --- ----.
prior to (5*the game the university was about to play against the visiting Rebels from Oxford*.)
(5) --- /--.
Newspaper reports said "(6* business is brisk- lots of activity*.)
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Lots of money is rolling in and (7*the school's accountants are busy toting it all up.*)."
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Afterwards to celebrate they all went out to drink at a pub on campus, where they (8*caused the university to decry the party's loud noise coming from a Mustang ROTC member's heavy metal vinyl*.)
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Carousing like pirates, they drank themselves silly on (9* Bacardi and Ron Rico brewed expressly for the university*)
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and became such a nuisance that university officials referred to them as (10* our drunken derelicts.*)
(10) --- ----.
The pub had no reason at all to enforce (11*its mandatory purchase of at least 2 mixed drinks or 3 beers.*)
(11) --- --------
Finally the party tried to recuperate by taking (12* antacid they got at the student health center*.)
(12) --- ----.

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12/30/11

World Geo


Clue



Ed, visiting from Spain, noticed in a dreamy state how green Ireland was.

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12/29/11

Arts


Clue



I tell everyone that I think Lee just has tunnel vision regarding his demand that authors and would be readers of lyric poems intended to be sung be hit with a tax.

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12/28/11

Science


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After famed 20th century physicist Enrico had written up a paper about his nuclear reactor experiments at the University of Chicago, he later meets Dr. Deere who had evaluated the paper for the journal and Dr. Deere introduces himself this way:

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12/27/11

Sports/World History


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When the Yankee shortstop was introduced to Harry and Will's mum, and she acted as is she had been at the pub way too long.....

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12/26/11

World geo/FoodEntertainment


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Heck yeah, there is a place where they are making burgundy from vinifera grapes on the beach in a Rio neighborhood immortalized in song.

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12/23/11

Entertainment


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Lorraine tells her friend Deborah that, as usual, that lech Tannen wasn't telling the truth.

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12/22/11

Miscellaneous


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In this line of dialogue from a novel, Romana yells after a customer of a cosmetology shop who had been quoted an exorbitant price just to have a pimple removed, telling him that the owner Della can let him pay it off in installments with interest.

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12/21/11

History&Government


Clue



Wall Street arbitrageur tries to convince fallen 2012 presidential candidate how smart he is while working on the 9-9-9 plan.

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12/20/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



Two weeks before being presented to society at her big coming out ball, the upper class girl got into trouble with the law and had to community service at a local hospital, where she lost it after having to empty the shallow toilets used by bedridden patients.So......

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12/19/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



Message I sent to Emily on her phone when an alien from Austin did the same to me.

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12/16/11

Sports/Business


Clue



Golfer Ernie is congratulated on getting his trim. graceful, finely contoured and streamlined Jaguar model manufactured in the 1960s and early 1970s: This one

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12/15/11

Entertainment


Clue



Canadian actress Lee ( "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers") and frequent game show regular, having ventured the opinion that Ike Turner's wife is not a very alluring female, is rudely told by a naysayer that in fact she is the very epitome of same.

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12/14/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



A man who is a novice canoe rider is warned by a veteran that he should not stand up to greet passing boats with silent acknowledgement

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12/13/11

Sports


Clue



Sage advice from the editor's of Sports Illustrated on how to be fashionable, stylish and up to date.

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12/12/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



What was the prize? Why the marijuana we got was the very best, I noticed.

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12/09/11

Science/World Geo


Clue



Egyptian goddess of motherhood, magic and fertility is asked to confirm that the sarcophagus weighs 2000 pounds.

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12/08/11

Science


Clue



Answer to the question, " what is the oldest prime number generating method?"

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12/07/11

Entertainment


Clue



Scott Joplin piece with the feel and mood of the banter among sanitation department employees as they ride in trucks picking up the trash.

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12/06/11

History


Clue



Ira, a customer rep in a millinery, is told by his supervisor to find something mysterious for Amy, well, like this WWI woman of intrigue.

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12/05/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



A style of Mexican-American popular music that features the accordion and blends the polka with various forms of traditional Mexican music, now often including synthesizers and rock music, used for entertainment on a Boeing 747.

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12/02/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



Dueling websites with very different outlooks on chocolate flavored coffee drinks.

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12/01/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



Comment to young boy Simon from a more worldly teenager upon Simon's having mistaken the Mary he was looking at for the Mother of Jesus, when it was in fact Mary the disciple of Jesus, And how could he tell? Why check out the shapely legs on her.

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11/30/11

Entertainment


Clue



Roxie's husband is asked again about his contention that Mama Morton and her crew where Roxie is incarcerated in Chicago spent most of their time doing cocaine on his recent visit.

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11/29/11

Business


Clue



Upper echelon real estate investment trust.

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11/28/11

Entertainment


Clue



After hearing about Ripa's partner's retirement and that he doesn't have anything in particular lined up yet an aide comments to Disney's CEO who wants to start a talk show and wonders if there is anyone available who has the experience and gravitas to do the job.

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11/25/11

History/Entertainment


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Crescendoing yell across a canyon to Mimi a member of the crew of the movie "Zorro," to grab and hold the movie's star,as he is a "communist," the sound echoing all around.

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(Imagine the type size getting bigger at the beginning and smaller at the end.)

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11/24/11

History/Sports/Cooking


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The barbeque of a male sheep by a later to be infamous Buffalo Bill #32 was ruined by basting it with too much of this aromatic herb of the mint family.

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11/23/11

History/Business


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Ad campaign tagline created by a prominent beauty company to influence potential customers in Cambodia, featuring as extremely into their cosmetics the country's leader before he was tainted by the "Killing Fields."

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11/22/11

History/Cooking


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Sara is told to cremate the jar containing a combination of spices, seasonings and herbs that add flavor and texture to meats and which had been used by and passed down from an infamous Russian Orthodox mystic and "faith healer" who influenced the court of Nicholas II and Alexandria.

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11/21/11

Business/Entertainment


Clue



A once prominent drug store chain's corporate reduction specialist, a la George Clooney in "Up in the Air."

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11/18/11

Arts


Clue



What Anais's Mom said to her when she broke in on her daughter and a friend making out in the living room.

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11/17/11

Arts&Entertainment


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A woman tell how she met actor "Henry" ( as in Higgins) at a reception for singles at a prominent London art gallery.

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11/16/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



(1)The minister preaches to his flock against any kind of sexual activity which involves the "reversal" of roles, positions, sexual preferences, genders,etc. hell

(2) He even rails against sensual love poetry.

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(2)--- -- ------ --- -----.

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11/15/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



Order from medieval general to his troops storming the castle to fend of the cauldrons of boiling liquid raining down on them from their enemies.

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11/14/11

History/Government


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Demand from Ford to his opponent in 1976 to repudiate an outrageous charge earlier made.

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11/11/11

Technology/World Geo


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A cry of triumph from the sultan when the woman accused of running a con game involving Apple computers among the sultan's concubines is finally caught and brought before him.

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11/10/11

Sports


Clue



Mechanisms for efficiently getting fans to a regatta involving single masted sailing ships, keeping traffic to a minimum.

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11/09/11

Sports


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An old school country football coach laments the fact that the other team's defense keeps employing an all out blitz with success.

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11/08/11

Sports/World geo


Clue



The wife of legendary golfer Champagne Tony seems dubious about how easy it will be for their adopted son Omar to do some last minute studying for an important upcoming exam, especially considering the likely transportation across the Sahara on the trek they are in the midst of, and says this.

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11/07/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



Personal one-on-one contacts at a Middle East cafe owned by and catering to both Arabs and Israelis????

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11/04/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



Restaurateur calls to his purchasing manager to lay in more salmon caviar.

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11/03/11

World Geo


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A college student, a Ram in Kingston, identifies himself as an inveterate angry complainer at the calls of the referees.

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11/02/11

Business


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The boss reacts negatively to Edward's brainstorm about selling/buying stock options, saying he will not implement anything even remotely like it.

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11/01/11

Sports


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Tennis umpire tells Eleanor Asti why they are playing the point over and why she hadn't won it with her apparent ace.

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10/31/11

Entertainment/Sports


Clue



Mrs..Bobby Darin of 1960-67 is told that Dodger #1 went to the bathroom and DID #1.

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10/28/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



( Maurice and Debi having had a fight, she turning her back to him when they go to bed), Maurice cries, "I can't fall asleep as we usually do with my head resting on your breasts?"

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10/27/11

Entertainment


Clue



In a line of dialogue from a play about shock comedian Andrew Clay, his girlfriend Rae tells him to hurry up and make up his mind about which canoe they want to rent.

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10/26/11

Entertainment/World Geo


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A person friends with both John Lennon's wife and the host of "Dirty Jobs" relate to her that on a recent visit to visit the TV host, he answered the door wearing a traditional Japanese robe.

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10/25/11

History/World Languages


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A member of the Princess of Wales's staff complains to her that the depraved, disgusting Frenchman hired to take care of the flowers and bushes on the estate was prone to get viciously angry and bellow.

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10/24/11

Science Fiction


Clue



In a note Lewis relates to Arthur, Emily and Evelyn how it is that he knows so much about the past and, particularly, the future.

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10/21/11

Entertainment


Clue



The creator of Klem Kadiddlehopper is told that Derek is the person who was being called over by the cry of "Director!" to adjudicate a case of failure to follow suit at the bridge tournament.

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10/20/11

History


Clue



Physician to Darby, daughter of the leader of the Plymouth colony for 20 years??

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10/19/11

Science


Clue



Advice to an overweight driver prone to extreme anger on the highway in reaction to perceived wrongs done to him by other drivers, to watch it and not burst an artery.

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10/18/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



Lewis is told that this particular brand of smokeless tobacco is very much all right.

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10/17/11

Sports/World Geo


Clue



Headline in Beantown newspaper on September 29, 2011, after the local team had completed a historic collapse to miss the playoffs.

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10/14/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



This girl proceeded, from the moment she was born, never to tell the truth.

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10/13/11

Arts


Clue



Comment in English to Prokofiev by a friend who is leaving the house.

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10/12/11

World Languages/Entertainment


Clue



A very Southern gentleman, discovering that he is without his favorite drink of rum, coconut and pineapple, asks his daughter Ada if he is EVER gonna get one, really leaning on the accent.

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10/11/11

World Geo/Entertainment


Clue



A slow moving, easy stride Polish dance popular near Anchorage.

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10/10/11

World Geo/Technology


Clue



Early store selling IBM compatible computers in the Soviet Union.

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10/07/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



The platoon from the army base, responsible for shoring up a local dam, ran Rosa's cafe completely out of hot sauce on their lunch break and, angry about it, took it out on the establishment.

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10/06/11

Sciene7Medicine


Clue



A girl who is about to become a big sister tells her mother that the lab called to say that the results of the test of her amniotic fluid were now available.

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10/05/11

World Geo


Clue



Ana, who runs the mining office in a gold prospecting area, reveals her prejudice toward an Indian woman with distinctive turban and last name Kaur, as per her religion, a spin-off from Hindu in the 15th century, when she refuses, in a nasty rebuke, to analyze the gold that the woman has brought in, doing so in a note, refusing even to speak to her.

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10/04/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



The local opera house is where all the worst of Mr. Foy's compositions ended up.

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10/03/11

World Geo


Clue



Response by Mr. Suzuki to a fellow businessman at a Chamber of Commerce get together when asked what business he was in, Mr. Suzuki explaining that he had the restaurant out on the Interstate serving raw fish cut into very thin slices.

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09/30/11

Entertainment


Clue



Sol and a few other guys in 50s Mayberry are going out on the town to try to pick up girls, but Sol has brought along his nerdy deputy sheriff friend, so one of the other fellas strongly hints that Sol should get rid of him before they head out.

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09/29/11

Business/Technology


Clue



Comment from cell phone-less man after he has had a wreck in his GM car and realized that he should have purchased their in-vehicle security, communications, and diagnostics system option.

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09/28/11

Sports/History


Clue



The Galloping Ghost is asked whether Richard Milhaus is in the know on the inner workings of the ox industry.

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09/27/11

World Geo


Clue



Evelyn is told that her boyfriend from Down Under is smooth, worldly and debonair.

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09/26/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



So you make appetizers of thin pieces of bread or toast or crackers spread or topped with cheese, caviar, anchovies, or other savory food, with style, verve and flair, do you?

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09/23/11

World Geo/History


Clue



Advertising slogan for coke rival tauting its energy prowess.

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09/22/11

Science


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Astronaut Armstrong is told that Ana is actually a being from another planet.

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09/21/11

Science/History&Government


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A former assistant to a famed UNLV coach and former Secretary of State Weinberger have both fallen on hard times and must move in together to make ends meet. The former calls his former boss to complain that, unfortunately, the Secretary has serious hoarding tendencies.

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09/20/11

Science


Clue



Panic! I am so stressed I can hardly get my breath! There has once more this morning been an outbreak of an acute contagious viral disease of the parotid salivary glands, characterized by swelling of the affected parts, fever, and pain beneath the ear, usually affecting children.

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09/19/11

World Languages


Clue



Comment by a Brit to Nan concerning spelling of a Latino last name, noting that it ends with the last letter of the alphabet, not with the letter 's.'

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09/16/11

Sports


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Brainstorm suggestion given to an American golfer who had come to Spain to play in the 1980s, but had not made a hotel reservation and was wondering where he could possible stay: see if you can stay with Ballesteros!

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09/15/11

Sports


Clue



Wife of former Celtic and Celtic Coach Jones who has attempted to cook something and made a complete mess with the concoction glued hard to the surface of the pan, even though, as she points out, its Teflon!

-.-., --'- ---~-----!

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09/14/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



Dee, who has dressed provocatively, is warned take note of the judgment of her girlfriend who has likened her look to that of a prostitute.

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09/13/11

World Geo/Entertainment


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Ira, a mischievous, small fairy like creature from near Saigon, emulates Chuck Connors.

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09/12/11

Science


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I ask Tana if she spies the aquatic mammals having two flippers in front and a broad, spoon-shaped tail that belong to me.

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09/09/11

Entertainment


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A big time gathering of a bunch of jazz musician soul brothers who meet informally to play for their own enjoyment.

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09/08/11

Miscellaneous


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To celebrate the birth of his first child a king commanded his courtiers to entertain him with a drama.

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09/07/11

Miscellaneous


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I tell Emily Ott that reports of craft were routed to me.

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09/06/11

Entertainment/Science


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Negative response for scientist at Fermilab to his girlfriend actress Thurman responding to her query about whether the lepton they were observing had yet decayed into its signature electron and two neutrinos.

--, ---, ----- --'- - ----.

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09/05/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



What the network administrator did when Elba left the company.

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09/02/11

World Languages/Sports


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A Spanish fighter hosting legendary boxing manager/trainer D'Amato tells him to make himself feel at home.

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09/01/11

World Geo/Languages


Clue



How one might subtitle the TV show "The Real Housewives of Mexico City."

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08/31/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



Alvin, a physician associated with a popular weight loss program which encourages clients to take off pounds sensibly, found a cooking vessel for a West Pointer to use when cooking this:

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08/30/11

World Geo


Clue



In a line of dialogue from a novel, Alvin tells how he is on edge since the waiter had brought him Mexican food appetizers, when in fact he had ordered a fine Chinese Regional cuisine.

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08/29/11

World Geo/Sports


Clue



Early baseballer Lajoie cooked boiled soybeans while vacationing near a famous Rio beach area.

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08/26/11

Arts


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After traveling 20,000 leagues under the sea, the captain is bewildered that the island on which they have landed seems to contain only males.

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08/25/11

Miscellaneous


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Nickels??

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08/24/11

Pseudo-Science


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A man has agreed to be "mind read" by 10 "psychics." After the final one has told him that he was thinking about long needled loblollies, he must tell her that she has gotten it wrong.

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08/23/11

Science


Clue



A video device to catch drivers on the interstate going at speeds up to and including the speed of sound.

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08/22/11

Science


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The owner of a store selling prepared foods like cooked meats, cheese, salads, sandwiches and the like and which is named after a famed French palace says he is going to see what he can get for it, wanting it off his hands because everyone hates it.

---- - -.-. ---.

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08/19/11

World Geo


Clue



The owner of a store selling prepared foods like cooked meats, cheese, salads, sandwiches and the like and which is named after a famed French palace says he is going to see what he can get for it, wanting it off his hands because everyone hates it.

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08/18/11

Entertainment


Clue



A friend drives Eleanor and Lewis to go get tickets for an upcoming lecture by the director of "Citizen Kane." The friend excitedly points out to them the ramps off the freeway which they can use to get to the box office, but then moans in disbelief at the sign indicating that the only tickets left are for those who are willing to stand.

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08/17/11

World Geo/Entertainment


Clue



"Kunta Kinte" Tweets that he will be visiting Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio,

----- -- -- -- ------.

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08/16/11

World Languages/Geo/


Clue



Uppity Brazilian Mr. Dias told us "good evening" but in French.

--- ---- ---- --- "-------."

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08/15/11

World Languages/Geo/Entertainment


Clue



Bud is giving potential a new stockbroker hire Reginald a tour of his boss Gordon's offices and shows him the party where they are having a good time dispensing beer from a Chinese cooking vessel.

---, ----- --- ------!

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08/12/11

World Languages/Entertainment


Clue



That "girl," actually a man,( dressed as a young Scot ) is, Sal, falling behind.

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08/11/11

World Geo


Clue



Hiker pal of Sidney tells him again that the distance to the bottom of New York's famous falls is too large.

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08/10/11

Entertainment/World Languages


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A German walking with friends actress, Burstyn and comedian De Generes, tells them to hurry up.

-----, ------.

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08/09/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



Customer yells this to the driver while riding on a Greyhound, as he is hungry for a hoagie.

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08/08/11

World Geo


Clue



Sorority girls carrying rodents scared the heck out of riders on New York subway line.

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08/05/11

World Geo


Clue



Mr. Croft is told by a friend that it is standing room only to get this famed Colorado beer now available in Central Florida and they should get a cot and camp out to be sure they got some.

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08/04/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



One friend of the couple Ada and Adam remarks to another, Otto, that the wife's craziness has driven the depressed husband to the edge of sanity himself.

--- ---'-, ----, --- -- --- ----.

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08/03/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



Outraged comment to dinner partner about whether to leave a gratuity for the waiter who grossed them out by reaching across them exposing them to his extremely bad underarm odor.

--- --. -------?!?!?

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08/02/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



Detective Rosemary replied back with a snappy affirmative.

---. -- ----- '---' --------.

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08/01/11

Entertainment/World Geo


Clue



Actor Sebastian ( "Family Affair"), vacationing with his daughter Della in Winnipeg, asks street artist Ed to sketch the daughter who was on the phone in a telephone booth.

---- ----- ----- -- - -------- ----, ------.

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07/28/11

Language


Clue



West Pointer's self description of himself as one so drunk that he couldn't even fart.

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07/27/11

Sports/World Geo/Entertainment/Languages


Clue



A Jamaican gentleman is told that baseballer Hideo, playing tennis with a "Roots" star and Mr. Ott, tries again to hit one over their heads while listening to the music from the movie "10."

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07/26/11

Sports


Clue



Young Chuck, future coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers tells his grandmother that he is headed out to the debutante ball where he will be an escort.

-- ----, - -- -------- --.

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07/25/11

Entertainment/Sports


Clue



Sultry actress is told that Ty had informed the team of 4 West Point 400 meter runners to "come up and see her sometime."

---, -- ------- - ----- ----- ----.

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07/22/11

World Geo


Clue



Look at the soda can tabs in St. Peter's square with Benedict's picture on them.

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07/21/11

Entertainment


Clue



On trial, the screenwriter of "Streamers" notices that his attorney Diana seems to be missing from counsel's table, but is informed by co-counsel, that she is merely having a talk with the judge and opposing counsel.

----, --'- -- - -------.

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07/20/11

World Geo


Clue



A girlfriend of Emily, whose date is Indian, and of a monotheistic religious offshoot of Hindu, feels herself strangely drawn to him and says:

--'- ----, ---- --!

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07/19/11

World Geo


Clue


TWO WAY PALINROME TODAY
Comment from a fan of a small French restaurant, regarding its entry in a cooking competition, that he will lay odds that it will win whether serving [very sweet dark red wines from Lisbon] or just leftovers.

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07/18/11

World Geo


Clue



Verily, there is a place on this famed beach in Rio where they produce vinifera grapes and associated wines?

----, - ----- --- ---- -- -------?

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07/15/11

World Geo/Entertainment


Clue



I am not kidding you, I was able to bring the "pick six" lottery to Portugal.

-- -.-., - ----- --- -- ------.

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07/14/11

World Geo


Clue



The large deep covered dish belonging to Ruth, a student at The University of the South in Tennessee, and which she inherited from relatives in County Cork, astounds everyone.

------- ----'- ----- ------ ----.

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07/13/11

World Geo


Clue



A type of Mideast strategy somewhat akin to and as important as that of a long fought over rocky plateau on the border between Israel and Syria.

----- ------.

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07/12/11

Language/History


Clue



A foul smelling, uninteresting 19th century textile worker and foe of all technology admitted to Del that he had been unsuccessful.

---, -, - ----- ---- -------, ------.

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07/11/11

Sports


Clue



A major league umpire in the 50s comes home, dejected from calling home plate at a Cleveland Indians game. His wife Emily asks him if he had a good day. He says "no" and tells her he'll give her a hint why: Indian 3rd baseman Bobby expectorated all over him during an argument.

--, --. ---'-: ----- ------ ---- -- --.

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07/08/11

Sports/World Geo


Clue



Travel agent yells at Kareem to pounce on the vacation deal into Lower California, fer Crissakes!

-- ---- ----, ------! ---!

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07/07/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



The minister is told that one of Santa's helpers groveled extensively at the prospect of getting an Aunt Jemima offering in the family room.

--- ------, ---, ---- --- ------.

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07/06/11

World Languages/Geo


Clue



A Mexican girl defensively admits to having gone out with a West Pointer, and abruptly says goodbye.

-- - ----- - -----. -----.

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07/05/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



Robin Hood to his Friar telling him that though severely wounded with a knife, he would soldier on.

----, ---, - ---- ---.

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07/04/11

Business/World Geo


Clue



A computer exec who had an early meeting with the big man in Round Rock, Texas, tries to explain his tardiness by telling Michael that he left plenty early from his hotel and was in a cab before 6 A.M., but the cab had engine trouble.

----, -- --- - ---- -------.

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07/01/11

Entertainment/World Geo


Clue



A famed film critic is told that the host of "Jeopardy" was part of a Southern California group plotting against the critic and his Chicago boys.

------ ---- --- -.-. ----, -----.

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06/30/11

Entertainment/Government


Clue



What Hans and Franz might do to Margaret Thatcher or Tony Blair or David Cameron.

---- -.-. --.

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06/29/11

Entertainment/World Geo


Clue



The host of a dinner party who had asked Food Network celebrity De Laurentiis to cook for him, tells Ada that he has brought to the cook the meat for the entree on the menu, famous bratwurst sausages suffused with Baco Bits that he obtained in a Florida city just north of Fort Lauderdale.

---, - --- ---- ---- ---- ----- -- -----.

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06/28/11

Entertainment


Clue



This Frenchman was in no danger of having his "pants on the ground."

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06/27/11

Entertainment


Clue



Derogatory comment about the level of machismo shown by guys who do their workouts with The Village People while they are staying at their favorite place.

-'- -----.

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06/24/11

Technology/History/Entertainment


Clue



After Sheriff Masterson has finished an examination on how his office can use the first videocassette tape recording and playback system brought out by Sony, he tells a reporter asking him about it, that the test was hard and took him to the cleaners.

--- " - ------- ---- --- --- --."

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06/23/11

Sports


Clue



If the battle against internet pornography ever got close to being won, this might appear as a newspaper headline reporting it, using a boxing metaphor.

-- ----- -- -~-----.

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06/22/11

World Geo/Arts


Clue



Ned is told that Juliet's beau cannot stand the poisonous acrimony coming from the lips of slow witted Evelyn, a Latter-Day-Saint from a resort on the California/Nevada border.

----- ----- ------ --'-
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06/22/11

World Geo/Arts


Clue



Ned is told that Juliet's beau cannot stand the poisonous acrimony coming from the lips of slow witted Evelyn, a Latter-Day-Saint from a resort on the California/Nevada border.

----- ----- ------ --'-
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06/21/11

Entertainment/Sports


Clue



A former Notre Dame football coach is auditioning for a part opposite Jerry Stiller's wife and is encouraged by the director to pour out his feelings to her in a scene.

---, ----- -- -----.

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06/20/11

Entertainment


Clue



Son to this couple?

--- ---- -------.

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06/17/11

Sports


Clue



Stuart gets the better of of former KC Chief coach turned football analyst in a contest related to the coach's specialty: predicting where the play is going to go given the situation and how the offense and defense have lined up.

----- --- ---------.

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06/16/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



The bottom line is that when Leslie entered the room the 9 young ladies had morphed into 10.

---'- --- ---- ---- ------- ---.

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06/15/11

World Geo/Entertainment


Clue



Often the rum was bad enough at the concert and stage show theater at Madison Square Garden that the whispering about it just stopped.

------ --- ---- ---- ----- ---.

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06/14/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



Ma tells her husband that Ara, "temporarily" staying with them after sneaking into the country, is nothing but an undocumented leech.

- --------- ------- -- ---, --.

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06/13/11

Entertainment


Clue



TV Tarzan is asked if he is wearing charcoal colored patterned socks.

---, ---- ------?

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06/10/11

Arts


Clue



As the concertmaster notices that Georg Solti's left pant leg seems to be coming apart he whispers this to him.

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06/09/11

Arts&Entertainment


Clue



Author Ephron is told that actor Rathbone is of noble birth.

----, ----- -- - -----.

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06/08/11

Business


Clue



Edward is told by his accountant that the deferred acquisition costs being carried on the company's books should be eliminated as the have been there for 20 or 30 years or more.

------- ---. ---- ---, --.

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06/07/11

Entertainment


Clue



Alibi offered for OJ spokesman Bryant: she was bathing.

--- ----- --- -- - ---.

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06/06/11

Entertainment


Clue



Suggestion to teen heartthrob of the 50s/60s who had a foul body odor.

-----, --, ---?

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06/03/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



An exporter queries his shipping manager, Del, verifying that the recent shipment of flightless birds to Sara had left left on the boat .

---, - ------ ----'- ---- ------?

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06/02/11

World Geo


Clue



In an afterthought, Diana is encouraged to stay out of the way of the top administrators at her school the first of the Seven Sisters, located in Poughkeepsie, New York.

--, -, ------ ----- -----.

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06/01/11

World Geo


Clue



Tessa is informed that Cara does not care for the clique of women all hailing from the capital of Venezuela.

--, -, ------ ----- -----

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05/31/11

Languages


Clue



An enthusiastic 8th grader to her fiend Emily regarding the fun and innovative activity their English teacher had devised to study the rules of the language.

--, - ------- ----!

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05/30/11

Sports


Clue



Yankees ace reliever will be on the radio in the morning for an interview.

-------'- -- --- -.-.

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05/27/11

WOrld Geo, History&Government


Clue



T-Shirt souvenir slogan sported by visitor to Alaska who was only able to see the town where Sarah Palin was mayor.

--- - ---: -------.

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05/26/11

World Geo/Business


Clue



Absolutely none? Of the low calorie beer out of St. Louis? Nary a one available until we get to he capital of Ireland?

---? --- ----? --- --- '--- ------?

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05/25/11

World Languages


Clue



A Scottish young man tells how his girl Ava noticed that he was pledged in military serivce to a local "Lord" while living on his estate.

---- --- --- - --- - ------.

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05/24/11

Science/Arts


Clue



Maurice leaves a note for Omar telling him to be happy that the captain of the Pequod, a college graduate, had solved a thorny problem on ship by using pencil and paper, assigning a variable, making an equation, and solving it.

----, -- ---- ----, - -.-., --- -------. ~ --.

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05/20/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



Soldier complains to quartermaster that the footwear he was issued was several sizes too large.

-.-. ----- --- ---.

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05/19/11

World Geo


Clue



A woman is worried about all the ownerless, feral felines roaming the streets of this town in the Hill Country of Central Texas, but she is assured that Arthur is on the job and has all of them in his sights.

-----, ---'- -- --- ----- ----- ----.

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05/18/11

World geo


Clue



The central American division of an appliance company.

----- ------.

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05/17/11

Science


Clue



Be sure you order takeout fish ( any of several soft-rayed food fishes of the family Gadidae, especially Gadus morhua, of cool, North Atlantic waters ) flavored with the fruit of a tropical, climbing orchid of genus , say, V. planifolia.

-- ---- -- - ------- ---.

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05/16/11

Sports


Clue



Bedding provided by Daytona, Darlington, etc. to faithful fans who come out to watch warm-ups and stay so late that they are invited to spend the night.

----- --- ----- ----.

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05/13/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



Business owned by man who could eat no fat.

-----'- -----.

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05/12/11

World Geo


Clue



Calvin, a maker of illegal milk products.

------ ------- ---.

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05/11/11

World Geo


Clue



A UT Chattanooga grad who recently moved to this city in Washington, SW of Seattle on the Puget Sound, introduces himself to Rex at a party where singles can meet.

---, -'- - ------ --- -- - -----.

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05/10/11

World Geo/Business


Clue



A UT Chattanooga grad who recently moved to this city in Washington, SW of Seattle on the Puget Sound, introduces himself to Rex at a party where singles can meet.

--, - ------- ------ -----.

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05/09/11

Arts


Clue



IInsistent comment to British playwright directing his own show from the sound effects man who insisted that he HAD made the requisite sound, two kitchen vessels being clanged by a spoon.

--------, - --- --- ----.

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05/06/11

World Geo/Business


Clue



In this short note a man suggests to his mother that they meet and hour before noon at a grand old "Borscht Belt" hotel near Ellenville, NY( which finally closed its doors in 2009.)

--, ------. ------ -.-.

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05/05/11

Entertainment


Clue



Wise men of the video game business.

---- -----.

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05/04/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



Check again the dog tags of that G.I who has been missing.

--~-.-. ---- -------.

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05/03/11

World Geo


Clue



Nathaniel knocks a Michigan State student.

--- ---- - -------.

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05/02/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



Max is asked by a cab driver if the repairs on his vehicle will take place at 0600 hours?

---, -- ---- --- -- --- -.-.?

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04/29/11

Science/Business


Clue



The soccer goalie took another look between his fingers.

------ --- --~----.

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04/28/11

Science/Business


Clue



A man laments the fact that volcanic flow buried his Toyota sedan.

--, ----? --- -- ------.

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04/27/11

World Geo/Science


Clue



The overhead cable car in the Middle East desert was made by beings from the Red Planet.

------- -- ----- ----.

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04/26/11

Entertainment


Clue



The ninth in the line of the horses used "owned by "Wilbur Post" passed away and is over being stuffed.

--------- --. --, -- --.

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04/25/11

Arts


Clue



How, ultimately, the Lilliputians may have come to view the interloper in their midst.

--------, ---- ---.

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04/22/11

Sports


Clue



An insensitive note left by police investigators for a family member of former star Cincinnati Red center fielder of the 1960s upon the occasion of his not returning home in October of 1995, and having been found dead of a stroke.

-- ---- ----: --'- - -------.

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04/20/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



He recognized that there was a mistake of monstrous proportions, one for the ages, in the cooking instructions? Are you kidding me?

-- --- ---- ----- ------ ---, --?

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04/19/11

World Geo


Clue



What the "teasippers" did when they kidnapped Aggie mascot Reveille and encased him in a thin layer of plastic as a prank.

--------- - ----- ------.

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04/18/11

Entertainment


Clue



Ella, girlfriend of actor Keach ( Mike Hammer ), looks out at the narrow way for picking up garbage behind his house, and at all the felines trying to get into the cans, and comment to him in this line of dialogue:

"-----," ---- --------, "--- ----- ----?"

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04/15/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



Edna shows off the extract from a common yard weed with yellow flowers.

---- --------- --- ---- -----.

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04/14/11

Arts


Clue



Tanya is told how when The Fountainhead was being written at a local sandwich shop the author kept getting distracted by complained bitterly about the art on the wall.

--- ------ - ---- ---, -----.

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04/13/11

History/Science


Clue



A dinner party guest at the home of the mother of Capt. Paul Tibbets, whose plane dropped the first atomic bomb, tells her that the large edible mollusk she has served is no good.

-----, --- -------!

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04/12/11

Sports


Clue



Cockney statement that a snake like sea creature bothers the woman "whom nobody doesn't like."

--- '------- ---- ---.

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04/11/11

Sports


Clue



Note left by a noted, later infamous, former USC/Buffalo Bill star, showing off under the uniform merchandise he was now reduced to selling, to a famed NBA player and coach who returned to the coaching ranks in 1997 as coach of the Blizzards in the American Basketball League, this all being funny considering that this was a league for women's teams.

--------- -----, -.-. ~ -.-.

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04/11/11

Sports


Clue



Note left by a noted, later infamous, former USC/Buffalo Bill star, showing off under the uniform merchandise he was now reduced to selling, to a famed NBA player and coach who returned to the coaching ranks in 1997 as coach of the Blizzards in the American Basketball League, this all being funny considering that this was a league for women's teams.

--------- -----, -.-. ~ -.-.

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04/08/11

History/Arts/Science


Clue



I tell my sister that melancholy Abner, a descendant of a famed English architect is tough, powerful, mean tempered, and intimidating.

---, --- ----- ---- ------ --.

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04/06/11

Arts


Clue



Edward is told that for a short while there, the captain of the Nautilus was a real scoundrel.

--, - --------- --- ---- ----.

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04/05/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



When I go so far as to say that "Mother is complaining bitterly to me in denunciation", that's a signal that I'm not telling the truth.

"-- -------" -- - ---- - ---- --.

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04/04/11

World Geo/Languages


Clue



Edward's roommate in Paris who had gone out to get cantaloupe and such for him plus an evening newspaper for his girlfriend Edna comes back empty-handed and reports thusly:

--, -- -----, ---, ----, -- -- -----.

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04/01/11

Sports


Clue



Eb, having inquired about the whereabouts of a 3 time Boston Marathon winner and first winner of the Women's Olympic Marathon (1984) , is told that she is off trying to get her excessive belching problem fixed.

------ -- ---- (----------), --.

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03/31/11

Science


Clue



Eb is asked if the compound can possibly be an inorganic salt of tin and an acetic acid anion, Sn(C2H3O2)2.

--, --- ------- --- -- --?

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03/30/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



A prominent animal at a shopping center petting zoo.

- ---- -----.

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03/29/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



What a lobster fisherman yells trying to get the attention of a possible poacher too near the flotation device used to mark the spot of his trap.

---, -- -- ----!

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03/28/11

Pseudoscience


Clue



Kramer noted, wondering, whether there were references to Allah et al in an emotionally charged lyric poem about animals that he had seen.

" --- ----- -- -- ---," ------ --------," -- ------- - ---?"

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03/25/11

Pseudoscience


Clue



A man tells his son to ignore the prognostications of the one who wrote in quatrains, as in the final analysis he might as well be tossing darts at a dartboard.

----------- ---. -- ---, - ----, ---.

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03/24/11

Entertainment/World Geo


Clue



A folk singer who was one of "The Dirty Dozen" is told that the 9 fellows who worked in the local flower beds were really drooping tired as they headed home on the Lexington Avenue express in New York City.

-----, --------- ---- ---- -- ---.

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03/23/11

Arts/Entertainment/World Geo


Clue



An opera heroine is told that this fella, instead of calling "the banker," dialed Saigon instead.

------, ----, ------ ---.

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03/22/11

Science/Arts


Clue



Defensive, deranged librarian yells at a patron, "Shoo! I have no copy of Douglas Hofstadter's seminal Pulitzer Prize winning book!"

------! -- ---!.

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03/21/11

Entertainment


Clue



Considering the state of the job market after law school the recent grad could only get a job as host of a Top 40 radio show.

-.-. -- -- -- - -.-.

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03/18/11

Science


Clue



Alvin is politely told that eyeball reshaping surgery is somewhat chancy.

-----, ---, - ---- --, --.

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03/17/11

World Geo


Clue



ST. PATRICK'S DAY!

The laryngitis stricken "Barefoot Contessa" of Food Network fame hands a note to an important visitor from The Emerald Isle who is wondering if she ever served him a drink, telling him that she noticed that she had placed, practically at his elbow, the following:

-- ----- --- ---, - ---, ----, ---. ~ ---

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03/16/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



Instructions from an illiterate former church janitor to the person helping him fill out a new job application regarding the "previous experience" portion of the application.

--- "---- - ----- --."

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03/15/11

World Geo


Clue



Dog tags at a New Jersey military installation.

--- -.-.

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03/14/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



A woman with laryngitis sweetly adds a postscript to her note to her husband who is going shopping, telling him to buy some of this:

-----, - -.-. --- ---------.

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03/11/11

World Geo


Clue



Man traveling in Europe with his mother tells her over dinner that he did not find the food appetizing and suggests that they move on to the largest city in the old "West Germany."

----, --, --- ---. -- -- -------.

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03/10/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



The YMCA does not allow on it's reading room shelves long multi-generational historical novels if they contain too much sex.

--- -- '-' ----- '-' -----.

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03/09/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



Two Palindromes, where the addition of one letter completely changes the message: whether or not Emil's kiss was awe inspiring or the lowest of the low.

(1) ----, ---- -- -------. (Wonderful)

(2) ----'- ---- -- ---~-----. ( Terrible)

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03/08/11

Entertainment


Clue



Working for a company that supplied equipment to the circus, a man who would grow up to be a James Bond nemesis wrote in a report that he would be the one responsible for taking back a a loud shrill organ the sale of which resulted in non-payment after delivery.

-- ---, " -------- ---- -'-- --- ----."

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03/07/11

Entertainment/History


Clue



Actor Beatty stole from this girl, who had just had her coming out party before going out and insanely "whacking people" with an ax.

--- ------ --- ------.

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03/04/11

Sports/World Geo


Clue



Extreme pro football fan who had to secretly set up his personal area for doing "manly" things all the way over in Saigon gives the order to get out because "she" has found him out and is on the warpath.

---- --- --- ----!!

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03/03/11

History/Government


Clue



Joseph McCarthy

--- ---- --------.

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03/02/11

Entertainment


Clue



Mr. Skelton chilled a bluish to yellowish green colored apple drink.

--- ---- - ---- -----.

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03/01/11

Sports/World Geo


Clue



The NASCAR driver put on more than his share of years, entirely because of his frustratingly close but no cigar finishes at a famed Alabama Super speedway, did he?

-- ----, --- -- ---------, --?

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02/28/11

Arts/Entertainment


Clue



Elliott relates to his alien friend how bored he was while everyone else was going gaga over a new piano made by the premier New York company for doing so.

----. -, -.-., --- - --------.

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02/25/11

Miscellaneous


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)Using a Latin/Italian phrase for "pay attention" the conductor informs orchestra member Gene that he is not "watching the stick."

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02/24/11

Miscellaneous


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Tim, whose last name you will have to figure out, is urged to snack to his heart's content.

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02/23/11

Miscellaneous


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Sy is told to help evaluate the short interpretative themes that the English class had turned in.

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02/22/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



When obstetrician Eva who worked the night shift at the hospital had a particularly cranky mother and newborn, she tried calm them down with a little spirits.

--- --- ---------- -------- ---- -----, ---.

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02/21/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



When obstetrician Eva who worked the night shift at the hospital had a particularly cranky mother and newborn, she tried calm them down with a little spirits.

----- -- --- ---- ---- ---.

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02/18/11

Sports/Arts


Clue



A Shakespearean character, about to catch in a baseball game, if offered genital protection.

----,.... ---?

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02/17/11

History/World Geo


Clue



Awaiting execution, Vanzetti's partner in crime tells friend of the Native American craftwork he had been doing while in prison.

--, - --------, -, -----, ----.

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02/16/11

History/Sports


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I tell a legendary hitting coach and a former governor of New Hampshire who served as Bush 41's Chief of Staff that the trail at the winter resort owned by Rik was odd.

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02/15/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



Making groaning wordplay jokes, I get the quaint little hotel to sign a contract.

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02/14/11

Entertainment


Clue



Mr. Asti, recently knighted, leaves a note for the author of Breakfast at Tiffany's telling him that he is taking a chance by carrying a gun.

--'- - ----, -----, -- ----. ~ --- ----.

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02/11/11

Entertainment


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Hook's sidekick is told that,kicking out the county's chief prosecutor nevertheless continues to feel like such a shame.

-.-. ----, ----, ----- -- ----- --- ---.

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02/10/11

Business/History/Entertainment


Clue



Economist Allan is told that Ida, nicknamed to account for her proclivity for calling the turn while actually having no chance to win the pot, dressed and lived an opulent lifestyle a la an English king, 1860-65.

-----, "---- ---- ---" --------- --.

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02/09/11

Arts/Entertainment


Clue



Words from a precocious kid who has just turned on the TV hoping to see a favorite cartoon, only to see the programming interrupted by a philosophical discussion of The Screwtape Letters.

------ ---, -----! ---, -.-.!

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02/08/11

World Geo/Entertainment


Clue



Dorothy is told that funnyman Foxx's anger is directed toward a small Louisiana town.

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02/07/11

World Geo


Clue



Someone points out excitedly to Emily a game in which the object is to memorize variations on a traditional Greek sandwich with lamb and onions served on pita bread.

--, - ---- ------ ----!

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02/04/11

Science/Technology


Clue



I friend suggests a bet with Reggie, the winner to get his choice of electronic device accessible over a wireless network connected to the internet.

---, - --~-- -----?

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02/03/11

Science


Clue



Red is told that Dana can only multiply using logarithms. ( Ask you neighborhood Pre-Calculus student)

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02/02/11

Entertainment/Sports


Clue



Rebel "Star Wars"character knocked Hall of fame bowler Pete out of the tournament.

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02/01/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



Line of dialogue from a novel in which Sam who has been convicted of murdering Mr. Dias, pleads with the victim's mother not to participate in his punishment, death by stoning.

"----' --, ----- -- ---," --- ----.

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01/31/11

History/Science


Clue



Cry of disbelief with a "you've got to be kidding" thrown in upon learning that not only was the Republican nominee for 2008 old, but the computer at his campaign headquarters was also very very outdated.

--! ------, -----? -'---!

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01/28/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



Edward logged a West Pointer, Timothy Dade, into the hospital.

-- -------- - -----, --- ----.

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01/27/11

Arts


Clue



Achilles, referring to himself as the archetype he was destined to be, tells his sweetheart of a wife that he can't do the chores because someone had been trying to get at him in his most vulnerable spot, more or less.

--, ----'- --- --------, ---.

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01/26/11

Entertainment


Clue



In a line of dialogue dropped from "The Wizard of Oz," a neighbor of the Gales named Eva tells Dr. Boyd, the obstetrician who delivered the Gales' child, that said child was going to have a mixed drink made of liquor and water with sugar and spices and served hot. In doing so she employs a nickname later dropped.

---: --- -----, -.-. ----, --- -- ----.

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01/25/11

History


Clue



Girlfriend of the mistress of a Ugandan despot asks her if he made prolonged, low, inarticulate sounds during their bout of lovemaking.

----, - ------- --------, -- ------!

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01/24/11

History


Clue



A sharp rebuke to members of a banned early Christian sect who claimed to have superior, inside information on spiritual matters, about their propensity to engage in idle talk and rumors about other peoples private lives.

----, - ------- --------, -- ------!

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01/20/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



Ed is told to get rid of the leftovers.

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01/19/11

Entertainment


Clue



Knock on a major network, describing its current state of affairs as archaic, referencing a long running comic strip panel.

-.-.-. -- -- -- -- -.-.

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01/18/11

Sports/World Geo


Clue



When golfer Champagne Tony wanted to get Mr. O'dell a taxi in the desert, this happened.

---- ------ -'---- - -----.

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01/17/11

Business


Clue



In a line of dialogue about a legendary Austin, Texas computer company, the CEO calls his garage to tell the mechanic Max that his car stopped and wouldn't start on its way to an early morning meeting.

----: -- --- -.-., ---, - -------.

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01/14/11

Sports


Clue



Rosemary is told that 1962-68 lightweight champ Carlos has a perfect complexion.

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01/13/11

Miscellaneous


Clue



Diana is told that Eve made a play on words involving the UnCola.

--, - -----~-- --- --- ----.

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01/12/11

Entertainment


Clue



In character, Sylvester Stallone yells to the "Divine Miss M." that these candy bars knocked the sox off the newspaper delivery boy.

--, -----, ------- --- ---- ------- ---.

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01/11/11

Sports


Clue



College basketball player of 1966-69 tells how he and teammate Rodney tried to defend against UCLA's star center, namely by tearing, scratching , seizing, pulling, etc., with their hands; anything to stop him.

--- '- - ---- --------.

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01/10/11

World Geo


Clue



Rob, who claimed he got a marijuana high by eating a traditional Russian soup of beets and cabbage, is told that the drug's active ingredient was not a part of the recipe.

---'-, ---, --- -- -------.

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01/07/11

Entertainemnt/World Geo


Clue



An insistent lawyer in the prosecutor's office in Saigon, in the mold of "Claire Kincaid."

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01/06/11

Entertainemnt/World Geo


Clue



[Perhaps because of a wardrobe malfunction??] it was a given that Ms. West gave no worry or thought whatsoever to the line of stitches in the garment she bought in Lima.

--- ---- -------- -- ---- ----.

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01/05/11

Entertainment


Clue



The edge this leader of the "Lieutenant Dan Band" has to help him get an invitation to the concert is a commercial made for the YMCA featuring an homage to Scott Joplin.

---- ------'- -- -- '-' ---.

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01/04/11

History


Clue



Pat is told not to expect any kind of fit of temper over the proposed peaceful occupation of and refusal to leave the dean's office in a 1960s college campus protest.

---, -- ---~-- ---- -- -- ---.

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01/03/11

World Geo


Clue



Deron is told that this particular brand of chewing tobacco is banned and therefore he can't use it on his trip to Saigon.

--, ------ --- -- ---, -----.

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12/31/10

Sports/World History/Geo


Clue



A poker playing friend of the quintessential Texas gambler exults to him at the prospect of playing Hold 'em with a couple of Italian guys named Emil and Sol, and winning lots of money at their game scheduled for the following morning.

---, -------- ----! ----, ---! ----,---, -.-.!

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12/30/10

World History/Geo


Clue



Mr. Asti, a wheel maker named in a Central Florida city is told how he can afford the mobile home: it has been recently foreclosed on by the bank.

--'- - ----, ----- ------ ----.

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12/29/10

World History/Geo


Clue



The fact that my husband Ned is irate and screaming is a sure sign that I can be found in the peace and quiet of tending my flowers.

--- ------ -- - ---- - ------.

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12/28/10

Business


Clue



Mrs. Peron on GW Bush ( 2001-2009): He is a secret agent working for his state's flagship university in Austin.

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12/27/10

Business


Clue



Mention the laboratory where non-expanding recreational foam balls are created and tested as an example of a very frantic and frenzied atmosphere.

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12/24/10

World Geo


Clue



I tell Nan that I noticed that a rich cake of Middle Eastern origin consisting of thin layers of pastry filled with nuts and honey ( alternative spelling) was in a taxi whose use was strictly devoted to ferrying Annapolis students to and from the airport.

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12/23/10

World Geo


Clue



A small child from Lancaster Pennsylvania introduces himself to Mr. and Mrs.Toth.

-----, -'- -- ----- ---.

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12/22/10

Sports


Clue



After being beaned while trying to break Babe Ruth's record, this is what Roger politely said to the umpire who was examining him and who asked him if he could remember his own name.

---, -- - -----?

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12/21/10

Sports/Entertainment


Clue



Hip-hop songs by the duo of Indy racer of old Jones and Penn State/Oakland Raider linebacker Matt.

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12/20/10

Miscellaneous


Clue



In this line of dialogue from a novel, Cecil yells irately at the cheap, inferior, essentially worthless hint of garlic in the dish he was eating.

"--," ----- -----, " - ---- ------ ----."

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12/17/10

World Geo


Clue



One rioter to another during a window breaking rampage of businesses in downtown Damascus, telling his pal to take something he could sit on to milk his cow.

---- ----- ----- -----.

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12/16/10

History


Clue



Reginald does a very poor job portraying JKF's press secretary.

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12/15/10

History/World Geo


Clue



Egypt's president of the 1980s called Emily from the capital of Turkey a hobo.

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12/14/10

Entertainment/Business


Clue



Incredulous comment to actress Campbell who had indicated that she "wanted to go back to basics" as far as which operating system she wanted to run on her computer.

---- --,...., ---, ----?!?!?!

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12/13/10

Miscellaneous


Clue



Moonshiner to his assistant Sidney regarding the next "batch."

------- --, ---

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12/10/10

History


Clue



( feminist rallying cry circa late 1930s-1940s) How do we feel about an equal rights amendment to the constitution? We hold such an idea in complete awe, mister. So, rise up and resoundingly reject this new line of copper bottomed pots designed to enslave us to our kitchens!

---- --........ ---, ----?

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12/08/10

Entertainment/Sports


Clue



Pop singer ( "The Wanderer") is told that a Notre Dame football coach gave a lot of thought to en enemy of MI16, who thought everyone was out to get him.

----, --- -------- --, --------.

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12/08/10

Entertainment/Sports


Clue



Pop singer ( "The Wanderer") is told that a Notre Dame football coach gave a lot of thought to en enemy of MI16, who thought everyone was out to get him.

----, --- -------- --, --------.

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12/07/10

Entertainment/SPorts/World Geo


Clue



William Shatner tells a fellow Star Trek actor who thought that Colorado State had been victorious in its annual "Border War" game, that in fact their foe had won.

--, -------, -----, ---.

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12/06/10

Entertainment


Clue



Actress Thurman is told, repeatedly, that it was two women named Laci who filed a lawsuit against a Broadway show featuring Horton and Yertle.

-----, ---! ----- --- "---------" ( - -------.)

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12/03/10

Miscellaneous


Clue



Dei is told that a rival of Romeo , about to fight him , was scared to death despite being well muscled and in quite good shape.

---, --- ----- --- ---------.

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12/02/10

Entertainment


Clue



I tell Lew that in her role in "The Racketeer" ( 1929) actress Carole was rather dull and spiritless.

----, ------- ---, - ---, ---- ----, ---.

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12/01/10

World Geo


Clue



Business card designation for this outgoing, gregarious man who was born in Houston, went to college in Austin, lives in Big D, and never plans to leave.

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11/30/10

History


Clue



Colonialist tells a friend that success rests on one journey the friend must undertake and underscores the importance by rhetorically indicating how desperate the circumstances are.

--- ----, ------. ----, --?

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11/29/10

Entertainment


Clue



Peter Parker takes another shot of snuff in the morning.

--------- -.-. --~----.

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11/26/10

Miscellaneous


Clue



Hip hop songs used on "Biggest Loser" in the ceremony celebrating finally getting rid of the last of the excessive fat around the waistline?

----- ---- ---- ----.

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11/25/10

Entertainment


Clue



Give that man who is lavishly entertaining us with food and drink and his stories another brewski.

--~----- -------.

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11/24/10

Entertainment/World Geo


Clue



Salvador, look at "Music Man girl" "Rose's" flat tortillas filled with cheese that she picked up visiting in several of the state of now politically united Europe!

---, ----'- -- -----------!

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11/23/10

Miscellaneous


Clue



Bo is told that the two guys named Patrick who team teach promised on their sacred honor that they would make a note to tell headmaster Bob about a common infection that had invaded one of the rows in their class.

--, ---- ---- ----- -- ---- ---'- ----- -- ---.

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11/22/10

Miscellaneous


Clue



in a line of dialogue from a play script, irate Lester tells Evelyn that he does long locks of hair for a very strong willed young woman who is not at all bashful about telling him what he is doing wrong.

---(---): --, - ----- -- --------- ------.

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11/19/10

Arts


Clue



Emphasizing that he was in charge, director Lombard tell Samuel that his vision of casting Timothy was as a rather colorlessly dressed and dull French playwright.

---, -- --- ---- ------- -, -------, --- --- --.

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11/18/10

World Geo


Clue



German lawyer to American client Eleanor who has asked if the judge will go easy on her in the sentencing, answering, "probably not."

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11/17/10

Arts


Clue



Exclamation regarding how the captain of the Nautilus is extremely taken with the opera "Amahl and the Night Visitors" and other works by the same composer.

-, -------'- -- -- ----!

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11/16/10

Sports


Clue



When Boston Red Sox 2000 SS needed whirlpool treatments at the same time that a teammate Pitcher Martinez did, one could say of the scene in the Red Sox Locker room:

-------? ----, --.

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11/15/10

Entertainment/World Geo/History


Clue



Having discovered an early biblical manuscript in, of all places a city in Central Florida, an archaeologist working with James Bond's nemesis states that the latter did not keep it, but instead cast it into the drink, consigning it to the depths of the ocean because he could detect a whiff indicating that it had been urinated on.

-- ----~----- ----- -----. -- ---- --.

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11/12/10

Entertainment/World geo


Clue



Actor Estevez gave no thought whatsoever to a citrus flavored taro root dish.

------ -------- -- --- ----.

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11/11/10

Entertainment


Clue



Parents of teenaged M.D. prodigy react shockingly to his having consumed his 5th glass of gin.

---- -----! ----- ---, ----?

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11/10/10

World Geo


Clue



Sarcastically in disbelief of his actually being able to do so, someone suggests to a District Attorney on an island nation in the Lesser Antilles that he actually try to enforce the law requiring all women to wear a bra.

--, -.-., --- --------.

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11/09/10

Miscellaneous


Clue



Speaking of himself in the 3rd person and speaking somewhat broken English, Eb tells the salesman at the furniture store that he does not want to go with the best option because he cannot afford it and does not want to have to take out a loan to buy it.

---- --- ---. ------- --.

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11/08/10

Sports


Clue



Comment from a baseball "fan" wondering why he wasted his money after having attended a 3 game series in which his team was blown away in each game, justifying their record as not having had a winning season since 1991.

------- --- - ---.

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11/05/10

World Geo


Clue



A college student at the University of Maryland born into a family of die hard fans all of whom went to school there describes her young 11-12 year old friend Alma who is also from such a family.

--- ---- -- - ---, ---- ---- -- - ---~----.

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11/04/10

Entertainment/Arts/Science


Clue



I cannot imagine when and where pop singer Bobby and the captain of the Nautilus got together, but they did. and quickly discovered that they needed help deciphering the periodic table, so, going to the source, ...........

--- --- ---- -- ---------.

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11/03/10

Category:Business


Clue



Advertising slogan for for a Pepsico soft drink evoking moonshine whiskey.

-- -- ---!

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11/02/10

Category:Miscellaneous


Clue



Pass Roentgen rays through a prescription.

-~--- - --.

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11/01/10

Category:Miscellaneous


Clue



A personal trainer tells a soldier that he is trying to slim down Lev and get him onto shape.

- --- --- ------, -.-.

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10/29/10

Category:World Geo/Science


Clue



(This clues makes absolutely no sense, but I though the setup was funny and the 'drome perfectly grammatical, so here we go.) A south American antelope living near Montpelier had as its mother a television set made by a large Korean electronics firm.

--. ---'- --'- - ------- --.

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10/28/10

Category:World Geo/Science


Clue



An act of cyber war emanating from a Spanish tourist island wherein certain spreadsheet instructions, themselves composed of a sequence of other instructions, are blocked from being usable.

------- ----- ---.

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10/27/10

Category:Miscellaneous


Clue



The bottom line is that Timothy has fallen in love.

---: ---'- -------.

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10/26/10

Category:Sports/Arts/Science


Clue



A lizard being kept for a former National League umpire by a Tennessee Williams innkeeper character.

-- ----- ------.

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10/25/10

Category:World Geo/Arts


Clue



An appropriate musical theme for a Nebraska city known for its cattle.

--- ----- -----.

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10/22/10

Category:Entertainment


Clue



A woman who writes movie reviews for her small town local paper is urged to send carbon copies to a famous Chicago film critic and his wife on very many of them, even as she winds down her career.

-- ----, -------, -- ------ - ---.

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10/21/10

Category:Miscellaneous


Clue



Arthur disgustedly talks to himself about having given information to the enemy.

---! -, ---, -- - -------.

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10/20/10

Category:Miscellaneous


Clue



Man to his date who has gotten up, irritated at him and about to leave him high and dry at the restaurant, because he is unable to choose what kind of tea to order, as he finally makes a choice.

---. - -------. ---- -- --.

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10/19/10

Category:Sports


Clue



What they might call a counterpart to the lumberjack Olympics for barbers.

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10/18/10

Category:World Geo


Clue



Canine mixed breed college mascot in Lubbock, Texas.

--- ----.

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10/15/10

Category:Science


Clue



An itinerant troubadour gives the high sign in warning to the famous chimpanzee at a Columbia University lab who was studied to look for language ability, and whose was punnily named after Noam Chomsky, MIT language theorist.

-------- ------ ---.

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10/14/10

Category:World History


Clue



Snide, sarcastic toast in English to Ugandan strongman of yore, ending "sotto voce" so that it sounds like praise, but isn't.

-- ---(--)

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10/13/10

Category:Technology


Clue



Lightweight boxer Hector , highly energetic after winning a world title, celebrates with his girlfriend with a bout of furious lovemaking. And she calls out:

--, -------!

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10/12/10

Category:Technology


Clue



What one hiker says to his buddy who is late preparing their high energy trail mix for the climb, as he wonders when it will be ready.

--------- -- ----?

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10/11/10

Category:Technology


Clue



Listen, Abraham, my answer is in the negative until Lester will agree to sell the item on an online auction, okay?

---, ---, "--" '--- ---'-- ---- -- -- ----, --?

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10/08/10

Category:Miscellaneous


Clue



Sol is told that Mr. Iba, disoriented and unable to make a decision, did not disagree with having the nut he had ordered on his salad be cut into tiny cubes.

----, --------- --- --- ----- ----- ---, ---.

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10/07/10

Category:Sports


Clue



An aide to the Prime Minister of England confirms to him that it was Edward instead of Eb who had laid money on the loser in the famed "Long Count" boxing match of 1927.

---, -.-., --, --- --, --- --- -- -------.

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10/06/10

Category:Miscellaneous


Clue



Don is told that Anna, hardly a candidate for a fancy coming out ball, was simply a vain aspirant to same.

-- ---, ---- --- - -------, ---.

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10/05/10

Category:Sports


Clue



A long suffering fan of San Jose Hockey asks whether he is going to waste time rooting for them any more and, having better things to do, answers: I don't think so,

-- ------ - ---- ----? --.

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10/04/10

Category:Sports


Clue



Wife tells her husband Lee that she thinks he should also dismiss the latest company they have hired to clean out their drains and sewers, a nationally prominent one at that.

---, ----, ---, ----------, - ----.

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10/01/10

Category:Sports


Clue



We use our finger to make pictures out of the morning condensation on the flank of a great US racehorse of the 1920s, father to War Admiral and grandfather to Seabiscuit, who also shares his name with a stinging sea creature.

-- ---- -- - --- '- --- ---.

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9/30/10

Science


Clue



In a stunning bit of astronomical news, Von, it seems, contrary to what we had thought, that spectra from the area the brightest star in the constellation Lyra indicates that inhabitants on a planet near there not only have chickens, but seem to consume their by products just like we do.

--, ---- -------- --- -----, ---.

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9/29/10

Entertainment


Clue



Lotte, a staffer on the Tonight Show, tells the host she has to hurry over to the manufacturer to get a replacement part for her son's model train.ASAP!

----, -, -----, --- -- --- -- ------.

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9/28/10

Business/World Geo


Clue



I noticed that the person who wielded influence and pull in getting tax concesssions behind the scenes lived near Tel Aviv.

----'- -- , - ---, --- -- ------.

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9/27/10

Entertainmet


Clue



The wise one ( Piers, I guess) cast his vote that Alvin Slade move on to the second round of the competition after the regional auditions for America's Got Talent.

---- ----- -- ----- -- -----.

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9/24/10

Sports


Clue



How "Sports Afield" might be described if it had a scratch 'n sniff strip inside.

---- ---.

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9/23/10

Sports


Clue



Interjection of disgust regarding the Montreal Canadiens.

----, ---!

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9/22/10

Arts


Clue



Two soldiers, drowning their sorrow in massive amounts of caviar, sighed as they punnily wondered aloud, using dialogue form the show, whether their respective auditions for the part of Hamlet at the local theatre were likely to bear fruit.

--, --- -- ---, ---- -.-.- , --- ----, "-- -- -- --- -- --."

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9/21/10

Business


Clue



Biased toward a large bank corporation that "never sleeps."

--- --------.

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9/20/10

World Geo


Clue



"Mrs." Mott, from Mexico, ran in a non-hilly but nevertheless very difficult marathon near the campus of the University of Illinois that end up at the factory that makes Snickers bars.

---. ---- --- - ------ ---- ------ --. -- ----.

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9/17/10

World Geo


Clue



Mr. Egan took notice of the weight of the oil being loaded onto the freighter near Old Mesopotamia.

---- ----- -- ----- -------.

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9/16/10

Arts/Miscllaneous


Clue



(1) What you might find in an executive washroom. or ( 2) What you may find available under the table at a tony head shop

--- ----- ---.

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9/15/10

Arts/Miscllaneous


Clue



Takes a bar chair during a riot.

----- - -----.

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9/14/10

Entertainment/Science


Clue



Engineer Scott was a member of several of these men's clubs when he was in training and interested in metallurgy.

--------- ----- ------.

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9/13/10

Arts/Sports


Clue



Tear up the agreement for the amount artist Georgia wanted to officiate the boxing match.

--- -- - --- --?

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9/10/10

Sports


Clue



Florida football coach is encouraged to take into custody the very impolite perjurer , his star quarterback , whom I had taken it upon myself to track down.

--- ---- ---- --- -------, -----.

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9/9/10

Miscellaneous


Clue



If I do the repair for you, will you give me tickets to the game?

--- -- - --- --?

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9/8/10

Miscellaneous


Clue



Warning by leader of a villainous horde trying to storm the castle to avoid/evade the enemy's cauldrons of molten metal raining down upon them.

----- --- --- ----.

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9/7/10

Miscellaneous


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Brother slangily tells his sister to look at their Dad: he's the best.

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9/6/10

Arts/Sports


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I tell Del that I really love the lyric poem that was sent to me by a former LA Ram quarterback via Gail.

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9/3/10

Miscellaneous


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How to describe a 60s party at which the marijuana flowed continuously.

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9/2/10

Miscellaneous


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Harried, non-stop working replacement during the gold rush at a shop where prospectors bring in their samples for analysis.

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9/1/10

World Languages


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Scotsman negatively questions the idea that the appetizer consisting of thinly sliced bread with caviar spread on it would be a cure-all for the otherwise poorly planned party.

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8/31/10

Sports


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Each ceremony wherein the high school football stars ink their contracts to attend State U. is off.

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8/30/10

Entertainment


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In a note left as an act of desperation, Ron questions his wife Deborah who had invited the flamboyant "cuchi-cuchi" girl to spend the weekend at their house, all the while contending that it would not be disruptive when in fact chaos reigned.

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8/27/10

World Geo


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Hard-line Muslim Mideast potentate is punnily told that the Italian countess's displaying of her best feature, her bottom, with tight pants was not strictly speaking against the law.

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8/26/10

Sports/World Geo


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College frat boy is encouraged not to try to get the North African girl who had just had her coming out party into the sack.

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8/24/10

Science/Entertainment


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60s sweater girl crazily hooked on curiously strong mints.

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8/23/10

Science/World Geo


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South Sea island installation where scientists are working to make a machine capable of passing the Turing Test.

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8/20/10

Entertainment


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Body art Gomer got which was deemed by all to be graceful, dignified, and imposing in appearance.

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8/19/10

Entertainment


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Sounds made when "Denny Crain" actor found out that his lease payment had been reduced.

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8/18/10

World Geo/Arts


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A physician with a tin ear, who is a close friend of Evelyn, tells her that he gave no thought whatsoever to having lunch at a cheap hole in the wall Mexican food place in an affluent Collin County suburb north of Dallas.

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8/17/10

Category:Entertainment


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Two stage assistants to "Erich Weiss" called out to a friend of theirs.

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8/16/10

Category:Miscellaneous


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At a trade show Edna demonstrates the beneficial effects of an extract from a common lawn weed.

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8/13/10

Category:Miscellaneous


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Abraham cried out to Delia about the prohibition their company had introduced which mean they could no longer import rare, expensive oxen because it was now illegal.

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8/12/10

Category:World Geo/Languages


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Eduardo saw in his mind's eye a fantastic vision: the lush greenness of the Emerald Isle.

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8/11/10

Category:Entertainment


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Scott Joplin song based on the sounds, conversations and rhythms made by crews which pick up the trash.

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8/10/10

Category:Miscellaneous


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When the Biblical prophets have a reunion this is how Isaiah, the first , gloats to the second about their relative placements in the Old Testament.

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8/09/10

Category:World Languages


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Lester was unsuccessful in getting any one of the young ladies of noble birth into the sack.

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8/06/10

Category:Miscellaneous


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We did not even think about bidding on the old church bench.

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8/05/10

Category:History/Science


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Descartes "thinks and therefore would not speak disparagingly about the man who takes care of the grounds at the estate."

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8/04/10

Category:Arts


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Shakespeare's clothes shout out as if proud of it: dull and colorless.

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8/03/10

Category:World Geo/Languages


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A Frenchman says good night, snooty Brazilian.

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8/02/10

Category:Sports


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Is next to a large brass instrument played by a future Notre Dame football coach. when he was in college at Miami of Ohio.

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7/30/10

Category:History


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Vice problems ensnare a Mississippi Senator of the 1960s.

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7/29/10

Category:History


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Art is queried about whether "the power is on" in the government's huge radio detecting and ranging early warning system.

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7/28/10

Category:History


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Describing Mr. Regan, the cursed, overly authoritative, domineering head of the unit for which Jimmy Carter's daughter works.

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7/27/10

Category:World Geo/Entertainemnt


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Eleanor is told that Dorothy Ogle, a a budding opera singer being championed by an early James Bond nemesis, went to college at this North Carolina college in Charlotte.

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7/26/10

Category:World Geo


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Kay tells how she makes Trevor mad about a bottle of Japanese sauce.

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7/23/10

Category:World Geo/Languages


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Man tells his Spanish uncles that it was in an Eskimo dwelling that he caught sight of idiotic soldier Nan.

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7/22/10

Category:World Geo/Sports


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Punny illegal blow in a boxing match in Mexicali.

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7/21/10

Category:World Geo/Arts


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Fashion designer Cassini is told by a friend as he visits a West Texas city that he sees their common friend Nan, who is dressed up like erotic author Anais.

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7/20/10

Category:Miscellaneous


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"Reappearance" of one who wears his emotions on his sleeve.

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7/19/10

Category: World Geo/Entertainment


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Jackie Gleason tells his "Honeymooners" sidekick that he absolutely has to visit this large Indonesian island just off the coast o Malaysia.

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7/16/10

Category: World Geo


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Punny order from sheriff to men he had deputized to track down the thieves who had burglarized the local art gallery, when he learned that the deputies themselves had found the loot but made off with the modern pieces relying on illusions that tend to trick the eye and brain, as he tells them to admit what they have done.

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7/15/10

Category: World Geo


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An Italian-American's correction to someone who had misidentified the dish as being made with manicotti when in fact it was fixed with short tubular pasta with diagonally cut ends.

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7/13/10

Category: SPorts/Entertainment


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The face of the a private detective who is the brother of baseball's all time home run champ.

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7/12/10

Category: Arts


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Words of advice from the director to an actor auditioning for a part: Stand up, walk toward me and show me all the emotion you can!

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7/09/10

Category: Business


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Ridicules with contempt an internet sight where one can go to get answers to questions.

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7/08/10

Category: Miscellaneous


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Headline about an attack on the corner store where they sell ready to eat meats, cheeses, bagels, etc.

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7/07/10

Category: Miscellaneous


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Response to Evelyn who has asked what the purpose of the special red phone is. He gets the answer that it is to make Alvin, Sara's only living family member, aware of what is going on.

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7/06/10

Category: Science


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A fellow member of the paleontologist's crew tells Rae that he understands that no great ape remains are to be found in this particular area that the leader had selected as promising.

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7/05/10

Category: Business


Clue



Rodney, vain, self important and silly, holder of degrees all the way up to the doctorate, is, Sidney, a diplomatic representative of the company founded by David Packard and others?

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7/02/10

Category: Miscellaneous


Clue



The brouhaha is about Emil's mistake in making the carbonated citrus drink

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7/01/10

Category: World Geo/Languages


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Pretty bored with Love, Italian style.

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6/30/10

Category: Sports


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IF, and this is a big IF, Dodger star pitcher of the 50s and 60s and 1955 World Series MVP Johnny had been caught doing drugs and was exposed in a story in Sports Illustrated, this perhaps would have been the headline in many newspapers:

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6/29/10

Category: Entertainment


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Actor Beatty's ("Deliverance") wife tells him to strip the old and install new wallpaper in the family room.

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6/28/10

Category: World Geo


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There will be discomfort all over this Australian island state in the morning as the scholastic aptitude test is being given!

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6/25/10

Category: History


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Hippie friend of Britain's political leader circa 1966, exults as he watches him open his birthday present, a light lit from the bottom and containing a soft gel that moves and grows as the light heats it.

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6/24/10

Category: Miscellaneous


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Describing Emily, shabbily dressed, unattractive, and stuck in lowly degrading, servile work.

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6/23/10

Category: Miscellaneous


Clue



Listen, being a nincompoop is Edward's fate, isn't it?

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6/22/10

Category: Miscellaneous


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Someone explains to Eleanor what the word "leer" means.

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6/21/10

Category: Science


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Dr. Arroway in a Carl Sagan novel is informed that a flap over electrical resistance measurements has developed at the space-time distortion phenomenon that she may use to time travel.

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6/18/10

Category: Miscellaneous


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The head guy on the gang who work to unload the cargo ships persistently ridiculed and harassed the guys on the crew who had been in the army.

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6/17/10

Category: Sports/Arts


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Asa noted, nervously, that considering the pose the Yankee 3rd baseman ( 2004-??) is taking, he looks a lot like Ms Duncan who was essentially the creator of Modern Dance in America.

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6/16/10

Category: Science


Clue



Maurice, time traveling, tells companion Rae that around the bend in the trail he can hear noise being made by a group of members of our lineage: bipedal apes of possibly the genera homo or australopithecus.

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6/15/10

Category: Miscellaneous


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To Samuel Aston? It doesn't belong to him? It belongs to Mother?

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6/14/10

Category: Miscellaneous


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Ira, the preacher, forced me to blockade the river with logs.

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6/11/10

Category: Sports/World Languages


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A famed basketball coach at Oklahoma State in the 40s, 50s, and 60s noted on the menu at Shogun a strong pasty condiment of the mustard family.

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6/10/10

Category: Sports/World Languages


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A famed basketball coach at Oklahoma State in the 40s, 50s, and 60s noted on the menu at Shogun a strong pasty condiment of the mustard family.

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6/09/10

Category: Entertainment/World Languages


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This relative of Bill Clinton's Attorney General, born in Nepal, is now living on Social Security in Los Angeles.

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6/08/10

Category: Entertainment/World Languages


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Spanglish spoken by Rachel Ray for " extremely, extremely delicious! delicious?"

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6/07/10

Category: History/World Languages


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A throng numbered at six thousand six hundred one rallied to protest a proposed " 'peace' Normanda" between King Harold and William on the eve of the famous final battle between them.

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6/04/10

Category: Arts/World Geo


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Blunt line of address on a note to a relative of the captain of the Nautilus, who, despite having a degree in science from the University of the South, had betrayed his once stellar career and was no longer worthy of being looked up to.

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6/03/10

Category: World Geo/History/Entertainment


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Motel operations which kick into high gear each spring near the big annual arts festival in Charleston, South Carolina, and which are ostensibly run by a sweet grandmotherly type , but are actually an Al Qaeda front.

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6/02/10

Category: Arts/Entertainment


Clue



In this dialogue from a children's novel by Peggy Parish about a literal minded housekeeper Eb cries and moans in anger to the protagonist about the fact that seriously evil Bret had a part in a historic Elaine May movie flop that starred Warren Beatty.

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6/01/10

Category: World Geo


Clue



TV sportscaster to his technician, Thomas Olson, regarding the unavailability of an instant replay on the previous action.

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5/31/10

Category: World Geo


Clue



Cry of Indian handbag snatchers as they see money inside them.

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5/28/10

Category: Miscellaneous


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Aired out a place where the West Pointers congregate.

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5/27/10

Category: Miscellaneous


Clue



A 16th/17th century pope who is conducting mass in a seaside church is encouraged to swipe away the devilish drink of a salty sailor who has just gotten his dally ration and brought it into the church.

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5/26/10

Category: Miscellaneous


Clue



Someone suggests to John McEnroe that he not take his evening meal at one of the college's dining halls.

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5/25/10

Category: Miscellaneous


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Polite ,jargony upbeat question/suggestion from Pure Oil Company service station attendant when a car pulled up to the pump.

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5/24/10

Category: Miscellaneous


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Lori is told that Alvin does not care at all for the shampoo she currently uses.

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5/21/10

Category: Miscellaneous


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A gratuity at a rate if 3.14159% of the food bill.

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5/20/10

Category: Miscellaneous


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WORD UNIT TODAY

G.I.s will pay the tab, so send the itemization of items to those infantrymen.

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5/19/10

Category: Miscellaneous


Clue



A beaver tells Salvador that the most recently built dam, made out of evergreens, was floating away.

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5/18/10

Category: Miscellaneous


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Ed is told that Del's life was one of public exposure and lascivious acts.

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5/17/10

Category: Science/Business


Clue



So, I am getting a glass of well known Dutch beer, am I?

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5/14/10

Category: Science/Business


Clue



In this line of dialogue Cecil is irate at the faint hint of worthless inferior garlic.

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5/13/10

Category: Science/Business


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A zookeeper explains to police how the gorillas and chimps, having been specially trained to drive and then having become very cocky, wise guy, know-it-alls about it, employ Volkswagen family sedans to break down the gate and escape.

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5/12/10

Category: Entertainment/Sports


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Mr. Douglas of "Green Acres" tell his handy man that the farm is being pummeled with eggs by those brothers of famed Boston Marathoner Joan and asks for advice.

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5/11/10

Category: World Geo/Languages:AUSTRALIA!


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A low and uncouth person standing by the river bank in Launceston, Tasmania, sharply criticizes a young lad from a Western Sydney city, the name of which means something like "place where eels lie down" in the aboriginal.

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5/10/10

Category: Entertainment


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Question from Gilda Radner to Barbara Walters during an interview, asking her if she wanted a drink.

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5/07/10

Category: Business


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This woman is asked whether Anita Pat is driving a Toyota mini-van.

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5/06/10

Category: World Geo/Entertainment


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An inmate who had slipped the matron of murderer's row in the Cooke County Jail a few bucks to get her some Beefsteak tomatoes expresses her disappointment in finding that smallish oval shaped ones were gotten instead.

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5/05/10

Category: History&Government


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Delighted comment from Clinton Attorney General that ( having taken Beano ) she now felt gas free.

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5/04/10

Category: Miscellaneous


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A lament for Antonio who had wanted to be awarded a Boy Scout troop to lead, but who did not get it.

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5/03/10

Category: Miscellaneous


Clue



Quickly deviate off course! There's someone who's been stranded on this remote island!

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4/30/10

Category: Government


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Remark of surprised denial from dinner companion of House Speaker to her when she asks if he had been thinking about telling the waiter to bring him the flatfish from Dover.

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4/28/10

Category: Entertainment/World Geo


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A person pondering his "curriculum vitae."

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4/27/10

Category: Entertainment


Clue



The chief marketing officer for this financial news cable outfit is a guest on the 700 Club? You have to be kidding!

-- --- --- -- ----? --!

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4/26/10

Category: Entertainment/World Geo


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Husband of country singer McIntyre, with her on a vacation at a large estate in Bordeaux, France, tells her that he would give the highest possible rating to their premium dry red wine, made right there on the place.

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4/23/10

Category:Entertainment


Clue



I tell Dee that I am pulling up unwanted plants from my garden using a flashlight which I use to find slimy mollusks and lent to me by my neighbor who played Agent Scully on "X-Files."

---, --- -------'- ----- ----- - ----.

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4/22/10

Category:Miscellaneous


Clue



Mr. Deity did not subsist only on a famed Drake's cake snack.

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4/21/10

Category:Miscellaneous


Clue



Salvador, part of a notorious Colombian drug cartel ( scam artist; no dignity at all; a real nothing) led Emily.

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4/20/10

Category:Miscellaneous


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A call to arms via a wall painting.

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4/19/10

Category:Entertainment


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A friend of Hal excitedly points out to him the beautiful wife of Charlie Chaplin as she passes by.

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4/16/10

Category:Entertainment


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Food Network's "The Barefoot Contessa" exclaims as she wishes to herself that she had a Russet Burbank potato to bake.

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4/15/10

Category:History


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This man is physician to Eugene, a Socialist who ran for president of the U.S. several times.

--. -- ---- -- -------.

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4/14/10

Category:Sports


Clue



Reply to Yankee third basemen after he had suggested that we hold up the hot dog salesman at the stadium with almost god-like status. The answer if a definitive "no."

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4/13/10

Category:World Geo


Clue



Fundamental tenet about how to manage a river in Germany.

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4/12/10

Category:Entertainment/History


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Reminiscing with a friend, Howie of "Deal or No Deal" asks him about an old buddy, Kyle, he had not seen in a long time. The friend tells Howie that Kyle is probably dead, done in by a bullet on his military tour of Indochina.

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4/9/10

Miscellaneous


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A girlfriend tells Emily that on occasion making love takes a lot out of her.

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4/8/10

Category:World Geo


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Edward is spread eagled across a New York subway car as if he wants to ride it.

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4/7/10

Category:World Geo/Entertainment


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Actress who wanted to "Kill Bill" carried along Alvin Slade with her to her classes in College Station, Texas

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4/6/10

Category:Miscellaneous


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Ed is asked whether either Tab, a circus performer who is currently feeling thwarted and disappointed, or West Pointer Art has headed down to the beach to check out the waves.

--, -- ---------- ------- --- -- ----- --- --------?

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4/5/10

Category:Myth


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Mustafa is told that this girl, though quite obese, is still hauntingly alluring.

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4/2/10

Category:World Geo/Entertainment


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Thank God! I can still take my Advanced Placement exam even when vacationing in Rio because it's being given in near a local beach made famous in song.

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4/1/10

Category:World Geo


Clue



A daughter of Robert Frost, in the days before Xerox machines tells her Dad that she is going to go and run off one of his new works on the hand crank duplicating machine.

- ---- - -----, --.

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3/31/10

Category:World Geo


Clue



What a nothing trip! We have nothing to drink but low cal brew out of St. Louis on our tour if Ireland until we arrive in the capital.

---! --- ---- --- ------!

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3/30/10

Category:World History


Clue



A very close friend of Ataturk, founder of the Republic of Turkey, tells him that his bankroll is quite large.

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3/29/10

Category:World Geo


Clue



Ana who works for an advertising agency presents a mock up of her billboard promoting tourism in Danang.

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3/26/10

Category:Entertainment


Clue



A fan encourages a pop singer not to go "Downtown" and suggests that she "Don't Sleep in the Subway" as he hands her a medieval stringed instrument to play instead.

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3/25/10

Category:Science/Sports


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Notre Dame's football coach circa 1970 is playing tennis with his good buddy, a professor in the physics department. After having just been beaten by a well placed high arcing shot over his head while he was at the net, the coach asks the prof what kind of curve it followed. He gets this response.

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3/24/10

Category:World Geo/Busines


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Killing well known people is a sideline for this woman whose day job is working for Scandinavian Airways.

-- -------- -- ---'- ---.

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3/23/10

Category:World Geo


Clue



Memo from a great fan of this Central Florida coastal community on US Highway 1 and State Highway 60, saying that he never wants to leave.

-- ----: -------!

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3/22/10

Category:World Geo/Science


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Piece written by Scott Joplin for some Athens Bulldogs.

--. ---.

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3/19/10

Category:World Geo/Science


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Comment from bird farmer to Alvin who wanted to buy one of the man's white herons, but is told that there is only one left and it has already been promised to a well known prep school in New Hampshire.

---- ----- ------ ----, --.

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3/18/10

Category:Miscellaneous


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A king makes a command to a chicken.

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3/17/10

Category:Sports/Science/World Geo


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Screenplay line wherein Ed, a non-descript American male, exults in Spanish fashion at the city's signatory crustacean delight he had at Mona's restaurant while attending the 1992 Olympics.

-- ( - --- ): -, ---, ---, "---- -' ---------" ---- ----!

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3/16/10

Category:Government/World Geo


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Extremely low on the totem pole as a bureaucrat devoted to administering environmental policy, Al gave no thought whatsoever to suggesting that his agency open an office closer to his home town, a suburb north of Dallas.

- ----, -- -------- -- ----- ---.

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3/15/10

Category:Entertainment/History/Geo


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Viola, a movie director, recounts in her memoirs about when she was directing a film on the Battle of Vicksburg, and she yelled out to one of her actors, Dell, to put more of a period accent into his lines.

"----, - ----- --- -----," -, --, ------.

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3/12/10

Category:Sports/Business


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Del is told that in making the spaghetti, the famed boxing writer has used three times the called for amount of a well known commercial sauce.

---, ---- ----- ----'- -------.

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3/11/10

Category:Entertainment


Clue



Reply of red-blooded Italian male circa 50s/60s when asked what would be his # 1 fantasy, as he contemplated a liaison with a famed actress of the period.

- ----- - ----, (--!) ---- ----.

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3/10/10

Category:Arts


Clue



Broadcast 'caro nome' or 'la donna e mobile.'

--- -- ----.

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3/09/10

Category:Business/Arts


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A shady retirement income vehicle purportedly investing in pieces of abstract art in which lines, forms, and space are organized in such a way as to provide optical illusions of an ambiguous nature, as alternately advancing and receding squares on a flat surface.

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3/08/10

Category:Science/World Geo


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Mr. Roby is told that the Chinese company, manufacturing a half man/ half machine, in which he was considering an investment, was a scam.

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3/05/10

Category:Science/Business


Clue



( Having switched from computers to biology) Wang computer founder tells Damon that he has broken the genetic code of a malignant epithelial cancer tumor in this line of dialogue from a play about the research.

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3/04/10

Category:Entertainment


Clue



(Before she became a gossip columnist) Ms. Barrett was embarrassed by and flummoxed by the botched takeout order she mishandled.

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3/03/10

Category:World Geo


Clue



Having come to the United States to organize an orgy, a sadist Marquis is told that they one of the invitees, from Topeka, was there and ready to participate, all ready to go and nude just like Edward who was already there.

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3/02/10

Category:Entertainment


Clue



The nemesis of the Dukes of Hazzard is told that Mr.Oh is a real bastard.

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3/01/10

Category:Arts/Business


Clue



Alan Greenspan is having dream conversation with British author Wells ( Time Machine) and tells him that the bottom line is that after a lot of thought he will raise interest rates.

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2/26/10

Category:Arts


Clue



In "Les Miserables" the woman who loves Mariius, who unfortuntely ooves someone else, responds negatively about whether she will ever trust males again in this line of dialogue.

-------: ---? _? ----!

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2/25/10

Category:Arts


Clue



In this line of dialogue from 20,0000 Leagues Under the Sea, a group of citified women confidently tell the captain that they have grabbed Ill mannered Russell.

" ----, -- --- ---- ----," ------- ------ -----.

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2/24/10

Category:History&Government


Clue



Nervous suggestion to former Israeli PM Begin to fire Emily from his entourage.

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2/23/10

Category:Business


Clue



When Eleanor says she wants information about Texas Instruments, she is given this advice.

-.-., --? ------ --!

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2/22/10

Category:World Geo


Clue



The woman of Chinese/Mexican extraction pastors a church.

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2/19/10

Category:Entertainment/History&Government


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Stand-up at a fund raiser by prominent performers and supporters of Obama/Biden et al.

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2/18/10

Category:Miscellaneous


Clue



A frog hunter tells Margaret what he does to them.

---, - --- '--.

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2/17/10

Category:World Geo


Clue



Sol is not up to speed on his knowledge of Indians who lived in New Mexico.

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2/16/10

Category:Miscellaneous


Clue



Negative, Don, those are my jeans.

--, -----'- ----, ---.

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2/15/10

Category:Business


Clue



In a line of dialogue from a novel, Emilty tells Arthur that she is in the process of obtaining people whose job it is to devise a strategy for dealing with the newspapers, TV, etc.

"----- ----------- - ---, ---" ---- --.

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2/12/10

Category:miscellaneousSports


Clue



Salvador is told that famed Finnish distance runner Viren had placed an order of long stemmed crimson ones at the florist.

-----'- -----'- --- -----, ---.

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2/11/10

Category:World Geo


Clue



I put the kibosh in the idea of using migrant farm workers from from Enid, Tulsa, Norman, Ada, Stillwater, etc.

-----' --- - -.-.

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2/10/10

Category:Entertainment


Clue



Betty uses this to keep the dust down.

---- ---.

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2/9/10

Category:Business


Clue



Possible hedged answer to the question, "What motorcycle manufacturer might do best the year?"

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2/08/10

Category:Science


Clue



Kerouac fans mauling teaching assistant Eb skinned him alive.

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2/05/10

Category:Science


Clue



Comment of a man who likes to talk to his cat after the cat has indicated to him that it detected volcanic flows which the man thinks will precede earthquakes associated with an eruption.

----, --, ----? - ---- --------!

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2/04/10

Category:Entertainment/World Geo/Sports


Clue



Comedian Silverman is told that the hallucinogenic drugs found in the desert in North Africa belong to a former Notre Dame football coach.

-----, ------ ---- ---'-.

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2/03/10

Category:Entertainment


Clue



Someone points out that an early James Bond nemesis has gotten into Evelyn's store of deer meat.

--'- -- --'- -------.

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2/02/10

Category:Miscellaneous


Clue



Daniel, a high ranking navy official introduces himself to Larry, whom he has just met but is already calling by a nickname and in effect suggestion that Larry do the dame.

---, -'- ---, -- -------.

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2/01/10

Category:Miscellaneous


Clue



Terse statement put out by 20th century Italian central bankers after a meeting concerning worries over there currency. The statement indicates that they thought about the situation and decided that there was really nothing to worry about.

---- --------. -- -----.

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1/29/10

Category:Miscellaneous


Clue



That long looped rope with the nose at the end doing all those crazy tricks is so huge!

----- ----'- -- --------!

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1/28/10

Category:Science/World Geo


Clue



The embarrassed staff at a newly built but currently broken again atom smasher located just west of a National Forest of the same name in Central Florida.

--- --- ----- --------.

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1/27/10

Category:Entertainment


Clue



Hey, shoot a copy to the doctor on the "Enterprise."

--, -- -----.

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1/26/10

Category:World Geo


Clue



Concerning the airport in San Francisco.

-- ---.

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1/25/10

Category:Entertainment


Clue



A friend of actor Neeson ( "Schindler's List") tells him that it has been a very long time since he heard from him via email.

----, ----! -- -----.

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1/22/10

Category:Science/World Geo


Clue



A Northwest African scientist new to the European Organization for Nuclear Research is being shown around and someone points out to him the area where the scientists can relax, play games, recreate, etc.

----, ---- --- ----.

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1/21/10

Category:Business


Clue



Heavens, no, Nan, the name of that company isn't pronounced "Erca."

--, --, ---, ---, -- -------!

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1/20/10

Category:Miscellaneous


Clue



Statement by Benjamin, a library worker that he had just cross referenced 9 accounts of peoples lives.

-- -, ---, ------- ---- ----.

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1/19/10

Category:Business/World Geo


Clue



Edward is told that the founder of the computer company bearing his name, headquartered in Round Rock, Texas was against doing a survey to see if his workers wanted to set up an employee stock ownership plan.

---- ------- ---- ----, --.

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1/18/10

Category:History/Sports


Clue



Mrs. Peron thought about why the crowd did not go into that stadium wide contagion cheer from the 70s when she was introduced at the outdoor rally.

--- --------, " -- ----?"

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1/15/10

Category:Arts


Clue



You don't say! So they've instituted a prohibition against doing way, way too much "Swan Lake," "Nutcracker," etc., even if they could get Baryshnikov, Nuryev, etc.

-- ----! - --- -- - ------ -.-.!

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1/14/10

Category:Entertainment/Science


Clue



Members of the high wire act are encouraged to unsheathe their knives and take action when the killer whales got loose.

---- -----, --------!

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1/13/10

Category:Entertainment/World Geo


Clue



Folk singer who starred in "The Dirty Dozen" is told that Enid had dinner while riding the New York Subway.

-----, ---- --- ---- -- ---.

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1/12/10

Category:Sports/World Geo


Clue



A man exclaims to Warren Spahn's follower in a famous 50s Braves "weather wish" that he take a look at the flowers grown by his Native American neighbor in Utah.

----, --- --------!

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1/11/10

Category:Miscellaneous


Clue



A friend tells Damon that the psychiatrist recommended to him, Dr. Elton, was not able to help him through his insanity. .

--, ------- ----- --- --- ------, -----.

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1/8/10

Category:Miscellaneous


Clue



Body art using carbon particles of incomplete combustion harvested from a chimney.

---- -------.

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1/7/10

Category:Entertainment


Clue



I tell Emily that "Kunta Kinte" from 'Roots" showed tremendous intestinal fortitude when he laid a wager on me.

--, ----, ----- ----- --- -- --.

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1/6/10

Category:World Geo


Clue



Describing frequent airline trips into Southern California.

-- --- - ---.

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1/5/10

Category:Science


Clue



An incredible number of electric generators!

-- ---- -------!

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1/4/10

Category:History


Clue



Gore departed, mac.

-- ----, -----.

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1/1/10

Category:Miscellaneous


Clue



A soldier is told not to try out his "psychic" powers while he is peeling potatoes.

-- --- -- --.

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