#436

Expats rendezvous for bisque at Paris cafes, just like Hemingway.

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#435

The crazy placekicker, when given job offers: "Extend my contract or I quit."

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#434

You explore fab views of Taj Mahal! (Amazing neck required.)

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#433

Another countdown week #5:

Bizarre! Jack finds avg.-quality whore Pam sexy.

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#432

Another countdown week #4:

Jocks have amazingly frequent earwax buildup.

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#431

Another countdown week #3:

In XL PJ's, I moved to a La-Z-Boy, watching ads for Quik.

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#430

Another countdown week #2:

Jo's driving irks: haze, squawking CB box, empty fuel.

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#429

Another countdown week #1:

Zoë, joking, explains why acquiring TV feeds is dumb.

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#428

Hil the quetzal sucked junebugs off expressway pavement.

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Hat-tip to my daughter who helped come up with this one.

#427

Chance that Jorge will offer expertly made baklava equals zero.

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#426

We required seven large boxes of zippers from YYK, the Japanese manufacturer.

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#425

Just a quick tip: Hold option-Z key, or beware a vexed mouse finger.

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#424

With apologies to fans of Jason Mraz (who is only mentioned here for his "z"):

Wax cylinder, quadraphonic LP, eight-track: J. Mraz blows in every format.

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#423

Wordplay week #5:

Amazing lexicon joke: sesquipedalophobia = the fear of very long words.

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#422

Wordplay week #4:

Waving, schlumpy Oz jokes: "If it ain't baroque don't fix it."

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#421

Wordplay week #3:

My bro realized squash was an expensive "racket" (forgive the joke).

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#420

Wordplay week #2:

I often quibble over wording, like "corn maze" (redundant) & "jumbo shrimp" (oxymoron).

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#419

Wordplay week #1:

The word "quixotic" seems to be in pangrams very often, like "jazz."

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#418

Jacco Griekspoor's quiet xylophone jazz bowled Muffy over.

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(Griekspoor really is a jazz vibraphone player. Muffy I made up.)

#417

Chimpanzees don't quack, beavers don't fly, oxen just wag tails.

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#416

I can never figure out how to work the fax machine.

Me, victor of a faxing prize?! What do they joke about a blind squirrel...?

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#415

Wow! J. Nelson (Breakfast Club movie) prays to Aztec goddess Coyolxauhqui!

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#414

Guess I should have posted this tip last week.

Preview holiday joy: Squirt E-Z Xmas Flocking in October.

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#413

What's bumming you? Unrequited love? Jammed fax? Yucky pizza?

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#412

With our excellent quality pizzas & brewed java, emerge well fed and awake.

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#411

The x-ray light waves from quasars zoom by dark planetary objects.

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#410

Aquilla, TX, citizens ponder why jobs are moving to Ft. Stockton.

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#409

In a far galaxy, quiet Jawas have immobilized Spock.

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This one required merging the Star Wars and Star Trek universes.

#408

Expecting moms frequently crave beef jerky and cheese-whiz.

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#407

Joel Veitch's Quizno's gerbil ads, for example, were hokey.

(46 letters)
(Remember those ads?)