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
Slurpees, Texas slaughterhouses, Tina Louise, and helicopters

Mr. Smarty Pants, Oct. 7, 2005

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Texas cities claim four of the seven top spots in per capita daily driving in the whole world

Mr. Smarty Pants, Sept. 30, 2005

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Killer whales, the Pope's e-mail, Stephen Hawking, and thousands of popping toads

Mr. Smarty Pants, Sept. 23, 2005

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Runaways, lobbyists, philosophers, and Pablo Picasso

Mr. Smarty Pants, Sept. 16, 2005

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Mitzi Gaynor, Topo Gigio, and "farthinder"

Mr. Smarty Pants, Sept. 9, 2005

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
A state treasure, gas theft, and sexual favors

Mr. Smarty Pants, Sept. 2, 2005

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The original sexbot film and the meat of white people

Mr. Smarty Pants, Aug. 26, 2005

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Saturn's moon Titan has square craters that appear to be lined up along north-south, east-west lines

Mr. Smarty Pants, Aug. 19, 2005

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The first annual Auto Glass Industry Technician Olympics will be held Oct. 17-18, 2005, at the Rio All Suites Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas

Mr. Smarty Pants, Aug. 12, 2005

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Drug makers, belly dancing, and Harrison Ford

Mr. Smarty Pants, Aug. 5, 2005

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Klaatu, Barada, and Nikto

Mr. Smarty Pants, July 29, 2005

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
24,000 metal knife-shaped objects of unknown origin and purpose

Mr. Smarty Pants, July 22, 2005

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Mr. Smarty Pants, July 15, 2005

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
LSD, chess, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, and 12 pianos

Mr. Smarty Pants, July 8, 2005

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Tom Cruise hates e-mail

Mr. Smarty Pants, July 1, 2005

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Nicolas Cage, albacore tuna, remote viewers, and the Shah of Iran

Mr. Smarty Pants, June 24, 2005

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Sex, oil, bikes, booze, and plasma

Mr. Smarty Pants, June 17, 2005

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Next year the United States will spend as much on defense as the rest of the world combined

Mr. Smarty Pants, June 10, 2005

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Kim Cattrall vs. a monkey

Mr. Smarty Pants, June 3, 2005

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Gyroscopic forces of spinning wheels don't keep a bicycle upright

Mr. Smarty Pants, May 27, 2005

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Poisonous frogs and British smiles

Mr. Smarty Pants, May 20, 2005

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Dead hair and Nixon's psychic

Mr. Smarty Pants, May 13, 2005

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Neutral Switzerland, zircon crystal, shampoo, Turkmenistan, and Type-B Men

Mr. Smarty Pants, May 6, 2005

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
It's raining men

Mr. Smarty Pants, April 29, 2005

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Scissors, elephants, truck noises, lawnmowers, frogs, and 1/100th of a second

Mr. Smarty Pants, April 22, 2005

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Taxes on hats, boots, beehives, basements, chimneys, birth, souls, and beards

Mr. Smarty Pants, April 15, 2005

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
There are more chickens than people waiting six months at a red light

Mr. Smarty Pants, April 8, 2005

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Slow growing lobsters and dog leash death for Bonapartes

Mr. Smarty Pants, April 1, 2005

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Lindsey Wagner, Atlantic tsunamis, Mount St. Helens, and Condoleezza Rice

Mr. Smarty Pants, March 25, 2005

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Hydrogen-fueled Hummers and coffee beans in animal droppings

Mr. Smarty Pants, March 18, 2005

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