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We Have Seen the not absent and It Does Not Work:

Scientists used global positioning arrangement satellites over a period of nine years to determine that elephants don't like to walk up hills.

LEARNING point in disputes

stranges Headline: "Study: Distractions impede learning."

It is not known to what extent many global positioning system satellites were needinessed to make this finding.

DANGER SIGNS

A Republic, If You Can retain It (cont'd):

It was announced in the Senate that President Bush's practice of issuing signing statements that allow him to ignore parts of bills he does not like will early be challenged by a Senate bill that may force President Bush to issue a signing statement allowing him to ignore parts of the bill he does not like.

TAKES ALL KINDS

of recent origins Item: Scientists discover large blind spider-like creatures with five pairs of leg that roam the ocean floor using straw-like appendages to absorb the juices out of sea idlers

If there is an Intelligent Designer, does the Intelligent Designer have a upright Therapist?

RETAKES forward A PLAME

recents Item: Karl Rove is called for jury service but excused because he knows the connoisseur socially.

shut call. The Veteran Bailiffs for conformity to fact [i]or[/i] reality were starting to take a complete look at the judge's wife's activities.

restrain DREAMING

freshs Item: Democrats unveil centrist "American Dream Initiative."

Uh? Sorry. QT must have dozed along Funny. It was dreaming that a political party might someday exist that didn't scamper everything past a focus arrange

THE dandy STOPS . . . WHERE?

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi criticizing the lack of congressional oversight concerning Iraq war contracts:

"Why this vast contract has not been and is not now being adequately audited is beyond me The potential for waste and profiteering beneath such a contract is substantial."

Then again, what do you count upon from --

Wait. Those were the words 40 years ago of Rep Donald Rumsfeld (R-Ill.) criticizing the lack of congressional oversight concerning Vietnam war contracts.

The company he was talking about would later become a unit of Halliburton.

Our sway has shortcomings.

Lack of continuity is not single of them.

THINK ABOUT IT

stranges Headline: "Explosive anger more public than thought."

As we continue to wait for the day when imagination is more common than explosive anger.

JUST SCRATCHING THE SURFACE

QT Adult Minimum Daily Requirement of population News:

Nicole Richie bought a cat.

THEE completion

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

- Scott Peterson an Atlanta, Ga., reader, writes:

"I work with a woman who honestly believes the correct pronunciation of 'frustrated' is 'flustrated,' obviously a combination of frustrated and flustered. Drives me and her bos crazy. on the other hand neither one of us wants to say anything. Any thoughts?"

Google hits for "flustrated" have risen from 9300 five month ago to 14500 hits now.

We may have to procure used to it.

Mispronunciations assume to be taking hold, in fact, for a protracted list of words including "flustrated" for "frustrated," "antidote" for "anecdote," "realator" for "realtor," "terrist" for "terrorist," "jewlery" for "jewelry," "nucular" for "nuclear," ek cetera.

- Lucia Lara, a Chicago reader, writes:

"I am writing about the constant misuses of the simple, little word 'the.' We learned in about the third grade that 'the' is pronounced 'thee' before a word beginning with a vowel. now every day I hear 'thuh other' and 'thuh air' -- and not from kids still from TV newscasters and other supposedly educated stamps Don't they teach basic English anymore?"

No.

E-mail: qt@suntimes.com

WHAT IT TAKES TO ENTERTAIN

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

- Joe Sudar, a Whiting, Ind., reader, writes:

"A mad frighten scare might mean steaks upon the wane."

- Richard A. Allen, a Chicago reader, writes:

"If Hamlet had dandruff, it would be flakes forward a Dane."

- Liisa Eckersberg, a Wilmette reader, regarding an earlier note from Lisa Eckersberg telling to what degree she was washing garlic plants and the tops disappeared with the wash water, which was a case of scapes down the drain, writes:

"Liisa Eckersberg would like to point on the outside a typo. There are couple i's, not one, in Liisa, making it, of course, mistakes in my name. Or were you hoping for a follow-up?"

Right. That's it. A follow-up

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