Lead Story “Many of my young patients think about getting plastic surgery the way they’d think about getting their hair done,” explained Dr. David Alessi of Beverly Hills, Calif., who […]
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The Straight Dope by Cecil Adams, crossword by Matt Jones, News of The Weird
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Napoleon. Dynamite?
How did it come to be that the comedic stereotype of the crazy person is someone who thinks they’re Napoleon? —Doug Frazey For all we know, delusions-of-grandeur gags predate the […]
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Repeat After Me
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Diary of the planet
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The whys and wherefores of vermiculite
Hey, Cecil: My wife and I had a very unpleasant experience selling our house after our buyer’s inspector came back with a report of vermiculite in our attic. After a […]
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No way. Way.
Government in Action! A Maryland governmental fund created to assist “innocent” victims of violent crime has paid out nearly $1.8 million since 2003 to injured (or deceased) “drug dealers, violent […]
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Diary of the planet
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What’s up with that?
The Aristocrats! Mayor Art Madrid of La Mesa, Calif., apologized in February for an incident the week before when police found him, along with a female city employee, passed out […]
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A Greet Addition
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It’s that time again
Too Much Time on Their Hands It struck Leo Hill, 81, of Lakewood, Colo., that he was being shorted sheets of toilet paper (in the 12-pack, whose rolls allegedly yielded […]
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Two of a Kind
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