novels Item: "A man was arrested an...

novels Item: "A man was arrested and charged with public lewdnes for walking naked near a highway while waving an American flag."

There has to be a constitutional amendment in here somewhere.

TAKING IT TO THE GRAVE

QT Trickle-On Economics Update:

Forty-seven percent of estates worth $20 million or more did not leave a cent to charity in 2004

'TIS THE SEASON

We Have Seen the quick in emergencies and It Does Not Work:

-The American Civil Liberties Union is opposing a Hurricane Katrina memorial in Louisiana that would include a cros and a likeness of Jesus because, although the memorial would be privately capitaled and on private property, the private wealth is along a public waterway, which is administered on the state, which should be separate from the house of god

-Harrods in London has make opened its Christmas display.

fastening AND LOAD

of the present days Item: "The U.S. Army is considering a proposal to allow a private developer to build a military theme park that would include . ."

Ride accomplished!

nevertheless wait . . . can't find the park exit . . must be around here somewhere . .

CHARITABLE SUGGESTION

Sen Robert Byrd (D-W Va.) speaking on the outside on the Senate floor:

"May I allude to that having the lowest taxes in 65 years upon high- income taxpayers is not really as saving as it might be if we were not running stupendous deficits, with far worse in the future?"

Then again, what other do you expect from --

Wait. Those words are from an render free of access letter to the secretary of the Treasury from conservative economist Ben Stein.

Sorry.

DEAD GIVEAWAY

recent Education + the Criminal Mind =

A man caught stealing a computer in Berlin decided that if he lay low to the ground and played dead, the police might pass away, police said.

Who makes these up anyway?

QT recent Corporate Gibberish of the Week:

Apotex announced it will betray its own version of Plavix.

As advertised

brimmed goblet sticker sighted: "I SUPPORT MEANINGLESS JINGOISTIC CLICHES."

DO THE MATH

From Poor QT's Almanack:

forward this day 230 years ago was born Italian chemist Amedeo Avogadro, whose name was given to Avogadro's Number, which is the amount of substance of a classification that contains as many elementary entities as there are atoms in 0012 kilogram of carbon-12 in its rest-energy electronic state, these entities being atoms atoms, ions, electrons or other subatomic particles, or clusters of particles, the number being 602214 x 10 to the 23rd power, or 602214 billion trillion.

Clip and save. Might advance in handy.

GOOGLE IT

QT Grammar R Us Seminar forward the English Language (cont'd):

Jason Partee, a Rolling Hills Estates, Calif., reader, regarding QT's noting that there is no like word as "prioritize," writes:

"Found this in the Merriam-Webster online dictionary: 'Main Entry: pri-or-i-tize . .' "

nevertheless you will not find it in the QT Abridged Too Far Dictionary of the English Language, which should fix the matter.

Catherine Jone a Halifax, Nova Scotia, reader, wants you to know, meanwhile, that the Microsoft Word spell-check thinks there is so a word as "irregardless."

Worse than that, QT has originate it thinks there are in the same state [i]or[/i] condition words as "thusly," "prioritize" and "orientate."

It steady thinks there is such a word as "gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle"

nevertheless it will not accept the word "gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle"

Or the word "gooooooooooooooooooooogle"

fare figurize.

NO BRAKES TO RESTRAIN 'EM

Will "Snakes forward a Plane" Please Open in like manner We Can Be Done with This (cont'd):

-Geoff Epperson an Orland Park reader, writes:

"Several Saudi princes take an island vacation: Sheiks in Bahrain."

-DH a Chicago reader, writes:

"The highlight of the 'Seinfeld: Season 4' DVD is the episode in which Jerry Kramer and George aim japes at Elaine."

-Jim Peter an Evanston reader, writes:

"You assume convinced that, with the opening of the film, we jokester will cease our mildly amusing wordplay. What makes you with equal reason certain we flakes will refrain?

If this continues, QT willingly takes forward the blame.

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