WHAT THE MONKEY SAW

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2007-05-23T09:16:00.001-07:00

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WHO SAID IT #38

2007-03-28T10:01:00.000-07:00

"We get so much love out there. It's overwhelming sometimes in Florida. But this is what it's all about. You've got to enjoy it. This stuff doesn't last forever."

A. Jeb Bush
B. Skink
C. Mickey Mouse
D. Joakim Noah

star of the Sunshine State

WHO SAID IT #36

2007-03-28T06:32:00.000-07:00

"I died and came back."

A. Jesus H. Christ
B. Adam Sandler
C. Andy Kaufman
D. Levi Draher, teenage doofus who almost killed himself playing the choking game, and now as a self described miracle, spends his time as a killjoy speaker, trying to convince other teens that the pleasures of self-asphyxiation are overrated.

yep

WHO DID IT?

2007-03-28T06:06:00.000-07:00

She shoved Mary Ann and pushed her, and Mary Ann said, 'Don't you touch me! Don't you touch me!'" says a source. "Mary Ann grabbed her wrists to try to stop her, and she just started flailing."

A. Ginger
B. Condoleeza Rice
C. Pete Townsend
D. NYT Fashion editor Anita LeClerc

slow day

WHO SAID IT, AND TO WHOM?

2007-03-21T08:39:00.000-07:00

"The public aren't stupid."

A. Dr, Kinsey, to the Mrs.
B. Cardinal Egan, to the St. Patrick's Day crowd.
C. Jimmy Neutron, to the nanobots.
D. Strunk, to White.
E. Heather Mills, to Larry King.

here

WHO SAID IT #35

2006-09-11T05:41:00.000-07:00

"I believe, at the end of the day, personally, my life is not about a banana."

A. Curious George
B. Bob Dole
C. Patrick Kennedy
D. Maria Sharapova

I agree

WHO SAID IT #34

2006-09-08T11:56:00.000-07:00

"We've always tried to entertain ourselves and figured that the outside world would be entertained if we were making ourselves laugh."

A. Osama Bin Laden
B. Condoleeza Rice
C. Bill Parcells
D. Matt Groening

don't have a cow

WHO SAID IT #33

2006-09-08T02:28:00.000-07:00

"I don't want to muzzle myself"

A. Clifford, the big red dog
B. Dick Cheney
C. Matt Drudge
D. Meredith Viera

how about a ball gag then?

BREAD AND CIRCUSES

2006-08-16T06:14:00.000-07:00

Q: What do all the degenerate rubes do on weekends when there is no NASCAR race?

A: Professional wrestling?

Q: Too complicated for them.

A: So what then?

Q: See:

"We brought the pig races back last year, and you couldn’t find a seat," says Sue Gooding, Texas State Fair spokeswoman

yes,yes

WHO SAID IT #32

2006-08-15T08:18:00.000-07:00

"When you look at people who are great, they make better decisions than people who are not so great..."

A. Napoleon
B. Napoleon Dynamite
C. Donald Rumsfeld
D. Rick "not Dr. Suess" Peterson

Answer

WHO SAID IT #31

2006-08-02T10:16:00.000-07:00

''As the human population increases, many wildlife species are decreasing, and the primary reason is that humans fail to treat animals as friends."

A. Jane Goodall
B. Dick Cheney
C. Ted Nugent
D. Captain Kangaroo
E. The Crocodile Hunter, whatever his name is
F. Kiefer Sutherland
G. Yao Ming

of course

WHO SAID IT #30

2006-07-11T04:26:00.000-07:00

"I’ve adopted a philosophy of telling it like it is.”

A. Plato
B. Tony Snow
C. Pamela Anderson
D. U.S. Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner

trifecta Tuesday

WHO'S THIS QUOTE REFER TO?

2006-07-11T04:22:00.000-07:00

“He treats us all equally. He treats us all like dogs.”

A. Cesar Milan
B. Joe Torre
C. All Wal-Mart managers
D. U.S. Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner

sounds like a bit of a rabid dog himself

WHO'S THE CHARMER?

2006-07-11T04:19:00.000-07:00

He is commonly described as “prickly,” “cantankerous” and “unpleasant.” And this is by his friends.

A. Michael Moore
B. Barry Bonds
C. Dandy Don Rumsfeld
D. U.S. Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner

Of course, all answers are correct, but today, this one is more correct

WHO SAID IT #29

2006-06-29T04:26:00.000-07:00

"I don't do guys for money anymore. I only do girls."

A. Condoleeza Rice
B. Rosie O'Donnell
C. Anne Coulter
D. Brazilian bombshell Andreia Schwartz

it had to be

WHO SAID IT 27 & 28

2006-06-27T06:08:00.000-07:00

"It's embarrassing to get cursed out in front of your father."

A. John Quincy Adams
B. Noelle Bush
C. Michael Jackson
D. Michael Strahan

and

"You want to (expletive) with me?"

A. Travis Bickle
B. Condoleeza Rice
C. Jenna Jameson
D. Jean Strahan

both here

WHO SAID IT #26

2006-06-24T04:32:00.000-07:00

"All of a sudden, this man moved into my frame of reference, and I was staring at a penis. I couldn't believe it."

A. Pam Anderson
B. Condoleeza Rice
C. Liza Minelli
D. Juliette Fairley, 35, an actress who said that she encountered a flasher on her N train at 42nd Street not long ago

yup

WHO SAID IT #25

2006-06-21T07:12:00.000-07:00

"I am such an idiot."

A. Iggy Pop
B. Neil Innes
C. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
D. Phil Mickelson

here

WHO SAID IT # 24

2006-06-13T06:24:00.000-07:00

"Nobody's going to respect us if we have a gay homosexual boss sitting down discussing business...."

A. Larry Bowa
B. Dick Cheney
C. Maureen Dowd
D. DeCavalcante turncoat Anthony Capo

intolerant thugs!

WHO ARE WE TALKING ABOUT?

2006-06-09T03:50:00.000-07:00

"We're good partners because we've worked together for so long that we think alike."

"You have to be compatible to be a good team."

"It's almost like you have to read each other's mind."

A. Martin and Lewis
B. Abbott & Costello
C. Ringling Bros., Barnum, and Bailey
D. Heloise and Abelard
E. Feliciano and Castillo

yes

WHO GETS PROPS LIKE THESE?

2006-06-08T08:21:00.000-07:00

"Joan, you are obscenely sexy, and I want to marry you!"

A. Joan Cusack
B. Joan Baez
C. Joan Armatrading
D. Joan of Arc
E. Joan Osborn
F. Pope Joan
G. Joan Jett

here

WHO?

2006-06-08T07:43:00.000-07:00

"They are lazy; they want to save money and they have a total disregard for the environment"

A. Hollywood liberals
B. NASCAR fans and their massive RVs
C. Oil executives
D. Lacey Township Police Chief William Nally said, describing the reasons why people illegally dump in township park areas.

link

WHO SAID 1T #23 - AND ABOUT WHAT?

2006-06-07T06:37:00.000-07:00

"I am viciously underqualified to do this, but admitting that is the first step to making this okay."

A. George Bush, about being President
B. Donald Rumsfeld, about being Sec. of Defense
C. Condoleeza Rice, about being Sec. of State
D. Jeremy Piven, about hosting a fashion soiree

oh

WHO SAID IT #22

2006-06-06T07:04:00.000-07:00

"I think that any gay person in the world would be seduced at one point by a certain kind of camp. For certain people it's kind of a saving grace."

A. Pee Wee Herman
B. Dick Cheney
C. Rudi Giuliani
D. Rufus Wainwright

ho, hum

WHO SAID IT #21

2006-06-06T06:15:00.000-07:00

OR, BEEN DOWN SO LONG IT LOOKS LIKE UP TO HIM

"I didn't know how miserable I was until I started to be feeling better."

A. Pete Doherty
B. Jean Valjean
C. Lynne Truss
D. Patrick Kennedy

answer here

WHO SAID IT #20

2006-06-01T07:32:00.000-07:00

"If you see some hot guys at the gym, you're going to check them out. But chances are you won't talk to them. You wouldn't be like, 'Um, can you show me how to do a bicep curl?' I would be embarrassed because I should know how to do a bicep curl. And I do."

A. Governor Schwarzenegger, of California
B. Governor Corzine, of New Jersey
C. Ex-Governor McGreevey, of New Jersey
D. Matt Drudge, of the blogosphere
E. Jennifer Vanlerberghe, 29, who works for a travel company and belongs to the Reebok Sports Club in Manhattan

oh yeah

WHO SAID IT #19

2006-05-30T09:54:00.000-07:00

"It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks."

A. The Fat fraud who hitchhiked across the country.
B. John Fowles
C. A whole lot of dogs
D. Anatole France

ug

WHO SAID IT #18

2006-05-30T07:40:00.000-07:00

"I'm terrified the birth will go wrong or the child will have evil in him or her. Even worse my beautiful baby could be the devil himself -- the anti-Christ."

A. Kevin Federer
B. Barbara Bush
C. Meadow Soprano
D. Melissa Parker

dopey person gets free publicity revealing what a dope she is

WHO SAID IT #17

2006-05-26T12:14:00.000-07:00

"Without a monkey, you are nothing, absolutely zero. Absolutely nothing."

A. Charles Darwin
B. P.T. Barnum
C. Admiral Rickover
D. Famous Amos
E. Joe Bush, last of the organ grinders

oh, well

WHO SAID IT #16 - AND OF WHERE?

2006-05-26T08:08:00.000-07:00

"The food here, to me, is awesome. For me to be able to go through the line here ... and pass up the cheesesteaks and the pizza and the baked macaroni they had today, that's a great accomplishment for me. Last year, it was all bad. Every day it was pancakes, I have to drown 'em in syrup, like you can't even see the pancake anymore. That's not good."

A. Martha Stewart goes to IHOP
B. Thomas Keller's got a new place
C. Donald Trump discovers cafeteria dining in Jersey City
D. Frank Bruni continues his downmarket road trip
E. None of the above

right

WHO SAID IT #15

2006-05-25T08:13:00.000-07:00

"I don't think Jesus would be mad at me and the message I'm trying to send."

A. Rupert Murdoch
B. Ron Howard
C. Aleister Crowley IV
D. That Dixie Chick
E. Madonna (a singer from the old days)

yes

AND WHO, EXACTLY, IS ADAM RITA?

2006-05-24T04:31:00.000-07:00

"It's like that old saying, when you get to the end of your rope, you tie a knot. We're the knot."

Adam Rita

A. Spokesman for the Old Sailor's Society
B. President, American Obstretician's Association
C. Prozac salesman
D. The Toronto Argonauts' vice president for football operations.

here

WHO?

2006-05-23T07:01:00.000-07:00

"combined two types of utterances according to a rule ... " - a procedure perhaps analogous to forming a word from two sounds.

A. Philip Roth
B. George W.
C. Mike Tyson
D. the putty-nosed monkeys, Cercopithecus nictitans

a ha

WHO SAID IT #14

2006-05-18T07:30:00.000-07:00

"I'm not an exhibitionist. I really don't like attention. Whenever I get bored at fashion shows, I look down at my feet and say, 'Look at my cute shoes.' "

A. Condoleeza Rice
B. Cinderella
C. Rosie O'Donnell
D. Buster Poindexter
E. Noted author Kelly Killoren Bensimon

bah

WHO SAID IT #13 - RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES

2006-05-17T07:56:00.000-07:00

''Do you think you are dealing with a 4-year-old child to whom you can give some walnuts and chocolates and get gold from him?''

A. Milton Hershey
B. Joseph Sexton, founder of the California walnut industry
C. Bond villain Goldfinger
D. Madman du jour Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

big trouble?

WHO WAS CALLED

2006-05-17T06:50:00.000-07:00

"... that insane and evil man, who deserves to be covered with chains and whipped with a rod."

A. Alec Baldwin
B. Roger Clemens
C. Vaslav Nijinsky
D. Michael Moore
E. Tony Blair
F. 17th century philosopher Baruch Spinoza

they took the marketplace of ideas very seriously in the old days

WHO SAID IT #12 AND OF WHOM?

2006-05-16T16:49:00.000-07:00

"He is the finest person you will ever meet."

A. Peter, of Jesus
B. Butch Casssidy, of the Sundance Kid
C. Saved Jews, of Raoul Wallenberg
D. Winnie the Pooh, of Christopher Robin
E. Saved Africans, of Albert Schweitzer
F. Sports reporter Susan Waldman, of injured New York Yankee Hideki Matsui

figure it out

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

2006-05-15T13:12:00.000-07:00

"An enlightened cannibal is still a cannibal.”

Leonard Cohen

here

WHO SAID IT #11

2006-05-12T09:11:00.000-07:00

"Our sticks are important to us. Mine always has to feel light in my hands. When I'm struggling, maybe I will do something different with the length. I can tell if the stick feels an inch too long or an inch too short."

A. The Village People
B. The Village Voice editorial staff
C. A Sudanese death squad spokesman
D. Scott Gomez

oh, well

WHO SAID IT #10

2006-05-11T07:32:00.000-07:00

Some women move away from me while I kiss their feet and touch them. Some women kick me and scream. ... I do hold on, but not a long time. Just till they start screaming."

A. Donald Trump
B. "Dog Whisperer" Cesar Millan
C. My uncle Mike, describing his amatory technique
D. Rush Limbaugh, thinking the mike was off
E. Don't tell me that Joseph Weir, New York's pervert du jour, is making another appearance

answer

WHO SAID IT #9

2006-05-08T03:30:00.000-07:00

....he kissed her boot and shouted, "I'm not worthy!"

A. George Bush, to Condoleeza Rice
B. Woody Allen, to Scarlett Johansson, on the set of Match Point
C. Bud Collins, on first apprehending Chris Evert, Tracy Austin, Lindsay Davenport, Anna Kournikova, Maria Sharapavo, et al.
D. Subway pervert Joseph Weir, who would - "drop to his knees in front of women in near-empty subway cars, grip their ankles tightly and sometimes lick their shoes - then release them at the next stop and calmly walk away."

answer

WHO SAID IT #8

2006-05-04T07:38:00.000-07:00

"I was a peculiar young man — borderline Asperger's, I would guess."

A. Dan Quayle (oh, sorry, that was dyslexia)
B. Andrew Dice Clay (oh, sorry, that was Tourettes)
C. Terry Bradshaw (oh, sorry, that was just plumb stupidity)
D. Christine Jorgensen (oh, sorry, that was transgenderism)
E. Noted Scotsman David Byrne

answer, of course

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TomorrowKnows offers a takeoff on "Who Said It'

SportsQuotes is playing as well

WHO SAID IT #7

2006-05-03T08:52:00.000-07:00

"Humans have the worst sperm except for gorillas and ganders of any animal on the planet."

A. Pamela Anderson
B. Paris Hilton
C. Mrs. Magilla
D. My first wife
E. Mother Goose
F. Sherman Silber, a high-profile urologist

how'd you guess?

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InsideDisney makes a pathetic attempt to jump on the 'Who Said It?' bandwagon

WHO SAID IT #6

2006-05-02T06:11:00.002-07:00

"I'm going to dress like a Jew so that no one will check me."

A. Bobby Fischer
B. A. J. Soprano, on his way to knife Uncle Junior
C. Kentucky Derby entrant Sinister Minister
D. Bumbling would-be terrorist James Elshafay

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"I have to, you know, ask my mom's permission."

A. The Beaver, angling for a sleepover at Larry Mondello's
B. The President, to Dick Cheney, on whether he will attack Iran
C. The Arctic Monkeys, before getting the OK to tour America
D. Bumbling would-be terrorist, Shahawar Matin Siraj, accomplice to bumbling would-be terrorist James Elshafay

you figure them out

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"...wherever I go I am preceded by a toxic chill poisoning the very air.”

A. Dick Cheney
B. Mr. Freeze
C. George Clooney
D. John Cleese
E. Hans Jaeger, a pornographer and intellectual charlatan who has been well summed up by a British critic as a “fin-de-siecle Viking nihilist

you knew it all along, didn't you

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CONTRIBUTIONS:

Say, the Experts are on roll.

WHO SAID IT #5

2006-04-29T06:52:00.000-07:00

"I have girlfriends that love gratuitous violence, blood and gore and people getting carved to pieces."

A. Ellen DeGeneres
B. Ed McMahon
C. Prince
D. Prince Harry
E. Prince Philip
F. Alan Thicke
G. Chris Zelez, female horror movie fan

letdown here

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"If you look at his picture, he has a smile on his face,"

A. Raw foods pervert Dan Hoyt
B. Spokane Mayor Jim West
C. Emmett Kelly
D. Palm Beach County sheriff's spokeswoman and Rush Limbaugh fan, Teri Barbera
E. Jesus, in his high school graduation photo

Answer here

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SportsQuotes follows a breaking story

WHO SAID IT #4

2006-04-27T06:15:00.001-07:00

"I can't take full responsibility for what my attorneys do."

A. Ken Lay
B. Corrado "Uncle Junior" Soprano
C. The RIAA
D. Scooter Libby
E. My aunt Ethel, after her bogus personal injury claim was thrown out of court

answer here

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"... people don't want to know what meat is. They don't think of meat as an animal; they think of it as an element of a meal."

A. Hannibal Lechter
B. Raw food pervert Dan Hoyt
C. Sanctimonious "New Yorker" Bill Buford
D. Anyone who has ever had a burger at Applebee's
E. Armin Meiwes (who?)

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CONTRIBUTORS:

A victim of usury gets little sympathy from InsideDisney.

I guess the Experts hate America.

WHO SAID IT?

2006-04-25T04:55:00.000-07:00

"If God wrote my biography, I wouldn't like it."

A. Jerry Falwell
B. Pope Benedict
C. Barbra Srteisand
D. Oral Roberts
E. Umberto Eco
F. The Duke lacrosse team

big surprise

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"Since eels do not keep diaries," ...the only way to determine gender was to cut and slice, "but in vain, all the eels which I cut open are of the fairer sex."

A. Young Ted Bundy
B. "Killer Clown" John Wayne Gacy
C. Young Sigmund Freud
D. Famous sushi chef Masahuro Morimoto
E. One of the sharks in "Finding Nemo"

answer here

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"I'm looking for Ms. Right. I'd love to do The Bachelor. That would be perfect for me. I've been single too long. I need to settle down and try the love thing for a while."

A: New Jersey governor Jon Corzine
B. Robert Blake
C. OJ Simpson
D. Bart Simpson
E. The ubiquitous Gilbert Arenas

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SPORTSQUOTES jumps on the "Who Said It?" bandwagon:

"Unfortunately, I can't talk about any legal business.... But when things are sorted out, I'll be more than happy to tell my side of the story so you can find out what happened."

A. O.J. Simpson
B. Ray Lewis
C. Robert Blake
D. Ricky Manning, Jr.
E. All of them, of course.

E is the correct answer. Who said it most recently here.

DON'T WORRY, KAAVYA. THEY SAID THE SAME THING ABOUT ME WHEN I WROTE THAT BOOK ON THE DANGERS OF WHALING.

2006-04-24T10:26:00.000-07:00

BOSTON -- The publisher of a 19-year-old Harvard University sophomore's debut novel is investigating the work because it includes several passages that are similar to a book published in 2001.

Kaavya Viswanathan's "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life" was published in March by Little, Brown and Co., which signed her to a hefty two-book deal when she was just 17.
On Sunday, the Harvard Crimson reported the similarities on its Web site, citing seven passages in Viswanathan's book that parallel the style and language of "Sloppy Firsts," a novel by Megan McCafferty that Random House published.

details, details

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IS THAT A THICK SOCK IN YOUR BOOT, PAAVO, OR ARE YOU JUST GLAD TO SEE ME?

Finns are so uncomfortable with themselves, says Alexander Stubb, a Finnish member of the European Parliament, that when they meet someone for the first time, they stare at their own feet. Then, after 10 years of friendship, they stare at the other person's feet.

all the news

AND OJ IS STILL LOOKING FOR THE REAL KILLER

2006-04-23T05:55:00.000-07:00

SAN JOSE - As oil prices hit a record, drivers worried about $3-a-gallon gas and politicians feared the impact on elections, President Bush on Friday acknowledged the pain but seemed resigned to being able to do little about it.

"I know the folks here are suffering at the gas pump," the president said while promoting his competitiveness initiative at the Silicon Valley headquarters of Internet networking company Cisco Systems Inc. "Rising gasoline prices is like taking a - is like a tax, particularly on the working people and the small-business people."

But to address the immediate problem, Bush offered only a pledge that "if we find any price gouging it will be dealt with firmly."

link

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CONTRIBUTIONS

SPORTSQUOTES has a nostalgic post:

"... I was surprised to see that Bill Madlock is black. Mostly, blacks don't go by Bill, you know. They call themselves Willie."

Whitey Herzog's first day managing the Texas Rangers, 1973

lots more here

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MONKEYSAYS (I think this site is actually fiction) has a man in street report:

"Guess who I saw at the FoodMart?" I asked.

"Who?" LZ responded.

"Chase Utley," I said.

"Who?" LZ repeared.

"Chase Utley," I said once more.

"I heard you," LZ said, "I meant, who is Chase Utley?"

"He's on the Phillies," I said. "Plays second base, I think."

"And he was in the FoodMart?" LZ said.

"Buying Pop Tarts," I said. "They were on sale."

"Hmm," LZ said.

"He's very pasty, a little overweight, and has bad skin," I said. "You wouldn't know it from the tv."

"A fat man with bad skin who plays for the Phillies was buying discount Eggos in the FoodMart down the street?" LZ stated.

"Pop Tarts," I corrected.

"How can you be sure it was him?" LZ asked.

"He was wearing a Phillies shirt," I said. "The striped version, and his name was on it."

WHO SAID IT?

2006-04-21T09:18:00.000-07:00

''I feel like smacking you in the face, mate, stay away from me.''

A. Queen Elizabeth
B. Julian Barnes
C. Martin Amis, to Julian Barnes
D. Pete Doherty
E. All of the above, at one time or another

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FROM TOMORROWKNOWS: (common atrocities)

School big pleads guilty in sex sting

A Manhattan high school administrator who bragged about sexual liaisons with teenagers was nabbed trying to hook up with more underage girls in an Internet sting operation, authorities said yesterday.

Steven Mark Rubinstein, 49, an assistant principal at Murry Bergtraum High School, pleaded guilty to kiddie porn and child enticement charges in White Plains Federal Court.

School officials reassigned Rubinstein last month after learning of the allegations and will move to fire him, a Department of Education spokeswoman said.

Using the handle "DaddyMark," Rubinstein sent sexually explicit messages from his home and school computers to federal agents posing as 13-year-olds over the past year, prosecutors said.

Rubinstein, who lives in Poughkeepsie, claimed in the cyberchats that he'd had sex with 15-year-old and 17-year-old girls in the past. After trading messages with the undercover officers, he requested a meeting so he could addthem to his list of conquests. When confronted, Rubinstein admitted trying to meet the "girls" but shied away from an actual rendezvous when he became suspicious that he was dealing with officers.

A teacher since 1985, Rubinstein also admitted downloading and trading images of child pornography over the Internet. Authorities said they seized images of minors having sex withadults from his computer. Rubinstein faces a mandatory minimum of five years in prison when he is sentenced July 10.

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FROM SPORTSQUOTES: (this one came to me in a dream)

--"I went to a Billy Joel concert at the Staples Center on Wednesday. Billy Joel was rockin'. I went with my family and had a great time. I'm a huge fan. We were all waiting for "Piano Man." It was his last song. He saved the best for last."

Excerpt from Matt Leinart's diary
Read the rest of the the installment here.

FROM EXPERTSSAY: (there's one born every minute)

U.S. Bird Flu Threat May Be Overstated, Experts Say

Dr. Marc Siegel, author of False Alarm: The Truth About the Epidemic of Fear and a clinical associate professor of medicine at New York University School of Medicine in New York City,said, "There's a complete psychosis here."

"The whole problem with the topic is the blurring of the distinction between birds and people. I'd be worried if I was a bird -- maybe. But not even all birds should be worried," Siegel said.

FROM INSIDEDISNEY: (q's and a's that shed light on the great entertainment giant)

Q: With 2 deaths in less than year, Epcot's Mission: Space is becoming quite notorious. Is it true that going on this attraction is more dangerous than actually going to outer space?

A: Absolutely not. The space shuttle has a death rate of 2%. Mission: Space's 2 deaths over the last year are statistically insignificant. Taking into account ride capacity and Epcot's average attendance, I put the number of Mission: Space "missions" at around 500,000 a year. You do the math.

Q: Thanks for putting my mind at ease. Now I know that it is much to go on a theme park ride than to be blasted into space.

A: Glad to be of service.