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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
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Lawrence Welk sells out
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Advice from Butterball and Thanksgiving history
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Patton fifth in the five; and other great veterans
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Arcane ephemera from the bespectacled one
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Arcane trivia of the damnned!
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Shark defense from the one-armed bandit
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The rapture: gone like the wind
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'Star Wars' and Honey Mushrooms
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Strange ranchfellows; and the real king of the Jews?
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Ben Franklin & Gandhi battle it out with Franciscans
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Spongebob Squarepants, sloppy signifying, and stunning cell-block statistics
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Newt Gingrich, Southern Baptists, and food poisoning
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Deep sea diving, absinthe, and Lucy Liu
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Bullets, birds, and Booth
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OK in Ukraine, Negative decibels in Hawaii, Walt Whitman in Manhattan, and people in Yemen
Mr. Smarty Pants, July 23, 2004
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Bill, James, Lance, Tom, Burt, Ken, Festus, and Tommy
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