More of the Straight Dope"Smart, saucy answers...the kind of book you'd buy as a goofy present for your wackiest friend--and then keep." THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER Since 1973, the redoubtable Cecil Adams has collected, corrected, inspected, and dissected thousands of reader's questions, reporting his sagacious findings in the popular weekly column, THE STRAIGHT DOPE. His first book amazed millions. Now he returns with another incomparable compendium of fantastic facts, insouciant information, and delicious data on every subject of import to personkind: Is it true Thanksgiving was invented by the editor of HARPER'S BIZARRE...? Why do your fingers wrinkle in the bathtub...? and hundreds more burning questions explained at last! |
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... heard that one . Memo to History , Part One I personally heard Dick Biondi [ the Chicago DJ ] tell the infamous " baseball joke . " Showing an unusual brevity of expres- sion , he merely exclaimed : “ Hey , everybody , let's go out to ...
... heard that one . Memo to History , Part One I personally heard Dick Biondi [ the Chicago DJ ] tell the infamous " baseball joke . " Showing an unusual brevity of expres- sion , he merely exclaimed : “ Hey , everybody , let's go out to ...
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... heard . The other one is a limerick that has been quoted on various TV shows . It starts , " There was a young ( man , girl , woman - I've heard several ver- sions ) from Nantucket . . . " , and the reciter is always cut off at that ...
... heard . The other one is a limerick that has been quoted on various TV shows . It starts , " There was a young ( man , girl , woman - I've heard several ver- sions ) from Nantucket . . . " , and the reciter is always cut off at that ...
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... heard about gerbil stuffing , the nurse from cops in the emergency ward , the doctor at a medical meeting . That's pretty much been the story all over . I have checked with numerous sources in both the gay and med- ical communities ...
... heard about gerbil stuffing , the nurse from cops in the emergency ward , the doctor at a medical meeting . That's pretty much been the story all over . I have checked with numerous sources in both the gay and med- ical communities ...
Contents
Thats Entertainment? | 15 |
Food Stuff | 33 |
Urban Studies Revisited | 64 |
Copyright | |
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