Crash blossom alert

[James A. Landau <JJJRLandau@netscape.com>]

USA Today, Tuesday October 25, 2011 page A1 column 4 headline:

     1 million
     get shot
     to save
     on loans

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Q.  What do you call someone who speaks several languages?
A.  Polyglot.
Q.  What do you call someone who speaks two languages?
A.  Bilingual
Q.  What do you call someone who only speaks one language?
A.  American.

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>From a detective novel:

[a college football player has just died from steroids]
Detective's girlfriend:  Why has the NAACP been called in?  Was the football player black?
Detective:  Not the NAACP [, you idiot].  It was the NCAA


     - Jim Landau

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