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 Knows
Malnutrition in Iraq, hot dogs in the United States, Ketu will change into Virgo, and D&D at least once a month

Mr. Smarty Pants, Dec. 31, 2004

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Taking the bark off banana trees with slippers and four tons of potatoes

Mr. Smarty Pants, Dec. 24, 2004

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Weight Watchers, Teflon, Jacqueline Kennedy, and the average house

Mr. Smarty Pants, Dec. 17, 2004

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Lawrence Welk sells out

Mr. Smarty Pants, Dec. 10, 2004

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Resisting enemy interrogation, government- subsidized health care, and hula dancing

Mr. Smarty Pants, Dec. 3, 2004

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Advice from Butterball and Thanksgiving history

Mr. Smarty Pants, Nov. 26, 2004

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
A wholphin, some Harp seal milk, and 1 quadrillion operations a second

Mr. Smarty Pants, Nov. 19, 2004

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Patton fifth in the five; and other great veterans

Mr. Smarty Pants, Nov. 12, 2004

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Arcane ephemera from the bespectacled one

Mr. Smarty Pants, Nov. 5, 2004

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Arcane trivia of the damnned!

Mr. Smarty Pants, Oct. 29, 2004

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Shark defense from the one-armed bandit

Mr. Smarty Pants, Oct. 22, 2004

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The rapture: gone like the wind

Mr. Smarty Pants, Oct. 15, 2004

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
'Star Wars' and Honey Mushrooms

Mr. Smarty Pants, Oct. 8, 2004

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Strange ranchfellows; and the real king of the Jews?

Mr. Smarty Pants, Oct. 1, 2004

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Ben Franklin & Gandhi battle it out with Franciscans

Mr. Smarty Pants, Sept. 24, 2004

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Dachshunds, Delta, Dodgers, dance floor, and ham drippings

Mr. Smarty Pants, Sept. 17, 2004

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Spongebob Squarepants, sloppy signifying, and stunning cell-block statistics

Mr. Smarty Pants, Sept. 10, 2004

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Cricket fights, cousins, and birds

Mr. Smarty Pants, Sept. 3, 2004

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Mr. Smarty Pants, Aug. 27, 2004

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Deadly decompression, tired tuna, wolfberry the "red diamond," and Stroganov in Siberia

Mr. Smarty Pants, Aug. 20, 2004

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Newt Gingrich, Southern Baptists, and food poisoning

Mr. Smarty Pants, Aug. 13, 2004

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Deep sea diving, absinthe, and Lucy Liu

Mr. Smarty Pants, Aug. 6, 2004

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Bullets, birds, and Booth

Mr. Smarty Pants, July 30, 2004

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
OK in Ukraine, Negative decibels in Hawaii, Walt Whitman in Manhattan, and people in Yemen

Mr. Smarty Pants, July 23, 2004

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Bill, James, Lance, Tom, Burt, Ken, Festus, and Tommy

Mr. Smarty Pants, July 16, 2004

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Mr. Smarty Pants, July 9, 2004

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Souls saved, bulletproof vests and suspension bridges made from goat's milk, and gluttonous lighting

Mr. Smarty Pants, July 2, 2004

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Horseshit, oarfish, toothpaste, cheese spread, and mouse traps

Mr. Smarty Pants, June 25, 2004

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
There's something familiar about the Japanese weasel

Mr. Smarty Pants, June 18, 2004

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Ted Kennedy, Emmylou Harris, gas, and UFOs

Mr. Smarty Pants, June 11, 2004

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