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Joke 1 might have been better as

“He worked it out with a #2 pencil” instead.

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Back in the day, the mathematician worked it out with a slide rule. I guess when slider rules became obsolete, the joke switched to "pencil," which has not yet become obsolete.

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As i recall, you insisted you were joking. Still joking? How Trumpian!

"Never did it. It was an idea I abandoned. I was going to offer to write a feature story – or a bit of doggerel – about anyone who found me 20 new subscribers to the Gene Pool. I still like the idea but wasn’t persuaded people would do it. "

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Ed Wood’s The Sinister Urge from 1960 was surprisingly ahead of its time. Recruiting by the adult entertainment. Exploitation of the vulnerable. An unexpected villain.

It was on MST3K, but it’s one of those films that wasn’t quite bad enough to get riffed on by the show.

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I voted for the Nut House. He can be king of the Nut House; he'll never be king of the Slammer.

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He can paint himself as a political prisoner in the slammer, get out, and get right back on the horse.

The nuthouse, however, might take a lot of wind out of a lot of sails.

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True, but he has probably watched Goodfellas and figures that he’ll be able to get someone to overcook his steaks on the inside.

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He will NOT amuse anyone.

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Take the man’s money, but never, ever accept a horse from him.

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Unless the legal Dobermans at the newspaper whose name we dare not speak are likely to start making unpleasant growling noises, please consider making inquiries about selling naming rights to the Invitational already. This incessant groveling for gelt is beneath you as nearly an American icon and you almost certainly don't want to be confused with that other stable genius. Allow me to add (seriously...) also consider selling ads --- discreetly, of course --- like PBS (or least as the ads there used to be) --- since you provide the same enlightenment, as a public service. I know they're permitted here --- discreetly, of course.

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Jokes: None of them are funny. At all.

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You meant none of them IS funny. "None" translates into "not one."

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I sit corrected.

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Speaking of surnames, it has come to my attention that you are not the only notable humorous (by intent) Weingarten. It seems Johnny Wayne of the Wayne and Shuster Canadian comedy duo was born Louis Weingarten. He (and his partner) appeared a record 67 times on the Ed Sullivan Show. And you only have two Pulitzers. Compare and contrast.

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Plan 9 is still my favorite also. As much fun as it is to discover the many, many examples of unbridled incompetency, it's the sincerity of Ed Wood's ineptitude that makes it #1.

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Who's with me? We tie Mark Raffman to a fast-food drive-thru window until he gives us the next seven verses of "The Twelve Days of Xmas." Hilarious, Mark!

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When I first read LEGLOB up at the top there, the image that ran through my mind was, LEG LOB: what Pete the Pirate does when he throws his leg over his motorcycle and it comes loose.

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Cletus sounds more Appalachian than PA Dutch. I think it would be more likely that Abram or Jacob would be going to the Hog Maw Buffet down the street.

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Trump’s unique ineptness is reflected in that he doesn’t just not have a defense, he doesn’t have an argument. Declassification, nope. Pres. records Act nope. Free speech, nope. It’s his acts of conspiracy, not his speech, but his speech was illegal in that it was used to perform acts of conspiracy. When your justifications of past acts change, you realize they are being floated, aren’t really real.

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Very true, which is why he's desperately pinning all his hopes on the court of public opinion and the equally baseless "weaponization of the justice department" argument to win over skeptics and sweep him back to the White House, where he would return to his checklist of additionally unconstitutional tactics to delay, enrich himself, and avoid jail.

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Ah, but you have overlooked the "Because we say so" defense recently used in the case of that Colorado website designer and validated by an enthralled Supreme Court majority in its ruling. Now that it has put its stamp of approval on it, expect this unassailable defense to regularly show up in future oral arguments to the oohing and aahing of Alito and Thomas in particular.

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Joke 1 is more like a riddle.

Joke 3 suffers from the awkward "on the beach" component .

Joke 2 is spot on.

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The National Park Service posted a better version of #3. Cute photo of an ermine and the caption “did you know that if you hold an ermine up to your ear you can hear what it sounds like to be attacked by an ermine?”

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I think I voted for joke 3 because it's the only one I hadn't heard a million times before. But I really did like #2.

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It's a good thing I didn't send Pat my complaints about Tuesday's puzzle. Now, I can use them for entries.

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