Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows is a weekly humor/trivia column by R.U. Steinberg that has appeared weekly in The Austin Chronicle since September 1988.
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Mr. Smarty Pants, Dec. 23, 2005

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Queen Elizabeth keeps her Cheerios fresh and clean

Mr. Smarty Pants, Dec. 16, 2005

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Students swearing at teachers, penguins coining credos - what's next?

Mr. Smarty Pants, Dec. 9, 2005

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His facts will getcha every time

Mr. Smarty Pants, Dec. 2, 2005

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On portmanteaus and other things you can't be bothered to look up for yourself

Mr. Smarty Pants, Nov. 25, 2005

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Who ranks 16th among 21 industrialized nations when it comes to achievement in science?

Mr. Smarty Pants, Nov. 18, 2005

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Some parts of the Bible are not actually true

Mr. Smarty Pants, Nov. 11, 2005

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On minding your Q's and W's, the company you keep, and the drinks you drink

Mr. Smarty Pants, Nov. 4, 2005

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Termites. A thousand million of them.

Mr. Smarty Pants, Oct. 28, 2005

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Ingrid Bergman, Planet of the Apes, Carnival Cruise Lines, and Grizzly Adams

Mr. Smarty Pants, Oct. 21, 2005

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Leather Tuscadero, Don Shula, and Alan Shepard in a wet space suit

Mr. Smarty Pants, Oct. 14, 2005

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Slurpees, Texas slaughterhouses, Tina Louise, and helicopters

Mr. Smarty Pants, Oct. 7, 2005

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Texas cities claim four of the seven top spots in per capita daily driving in the whole world

Mr. Smarty Pants, Sept. 30, 2005

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Killer whales, the Pope's e-mail, Stephen Hawking, and thousands of popping toads

Mr. Smarty Pants, Sept. 23, 2005

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Runaways, lobbyists, philosophers, and Pablo Picasso

Mr. Smarty Pants, Sept. 16, 2005

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Mitzi Gaynor, Topo Gigio, and "farthinder"

Mr. Smarty Pants, Sept. 9, 2005

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
A state treasure, gas theft, and sexual favors

Mr. Smarty Pants, Sept. 2, 2005

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The original sexbot film and the meat of white people

Mr. Smarty Pants, Aug. 26, 2005

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Saturn's moon Titan has square craters that appear to be lined up along north-south, east-west lines

Mr. Smarty Pants, Aug. 19, 2005

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The first annual Auto Glass Industry Technician Olympics will be held Oct. 17-18, 2005, at the Rio All Suites Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas

Mr. Smarty Pants, Aug. 12, 2005

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Drug makers, belly dancing, and Harrison Ford

Mr. Smarty Pants, Aug. 5, 2005

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Klaatu, Barada, and Nikto

Mr. Smarty Pants, July 29, 2005

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24,000 metal knife-shaped objects of unknown origin and purpose

Mr. Smarty Pants, July 22, 2005

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Mr. Smarty Pants, July 15, 2005

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LSD, chess, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, and 12 pianos

Mr. Smarty Pants, July 8, 2005

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Tom Cruise hates e-mail

Mr. Smarty Pants, July 1, 2005

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Nicolas Cage, albacore tuna, remote viewers, and the Shah of Iran

Mr. Smarty Pants, June 24, 2005

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Sex, oil, bikes, booze, and plasma

Mr. Smarty Pants, June 17, 2005

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Next year the United States will spend as much on defense as the rest of the world combined

Mr. Smarty Pants, June 10, 2005

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Kim Cattrall vs. a monkey

Mr. Smarty Pants, June 3, 2005

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