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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
since September 1988.
1021-1050 of 1,392 entries
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Slurpees, Texas slaughterhouses, Tina Louise, and helicopters
Mr. Smarty Pants, Oct. 7, 2005
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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
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Runaways, lobbyists, philosophers, and Pablo Picasso
Mr. Smarty Pants, Sept. 16, 2005
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Mitzi Gaynor, Topo Gigio, and "farthinder"
Mr. Smarty Pants, Sept. 9, 2005
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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
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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
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Drug makers, belly dancing, and Harrison Ford
Mr. Smarty Pants, Aug. 5, 2005
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Klaatu, Barada, and Nikto
Mr. Smarty Pants, July 29, 2005
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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
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Tom Cruise hates e-mail
Mr. Smarty Pants, July 1, 2005
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Nicolas Cage, albacore tuna, remote viewers, and the Shah of Iran
Mr. Smarty Pants, June 24, 2005
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Sex, oil, bikes, booze, and plasma
Mr. Smarty Pants, June 17, 2005
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Next year the United States will spend as much on defense as the rest of the world combined
Mr. Smarty Pants, June 10, 2005
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Kim Cattrall vs. a monkey
Mr. Smarty Pants, June 3, 2005
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Gyroscopic forces of spinning wheels don't keep a bicycle upright
Mr. Smarty Pants, May 27, 2005
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Poisonous frogs and British smiles
Mr. Smarty Pants, May 20, 2005
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Dead hair and Nixon's psychic
Mr. Smarty Pants, May 13, 2005
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Neutral Switzerland, zircon crystal, shampoo, Turkmenistan, and Type-B Men
Mr. Smarty Pants, May 6, 2005
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It's raining men
Mr. Smarty Pants, April 29, 2005
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Scissors, elephants, truck noises, lawnmowers, frogs, and 1/100th of a second
Mr. Smarty Pants, April 22, 2005
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Taxes on hats, boots, beehives, basements, chimneys, birth, souls, and beards
Mr. Smarty Pants, April 15, 2005
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There are more chickens than people waiting six months at a red light
Mr. Smarty Pants, April 8, 2005
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Slow growing lobsters and dog leash death for Bonapartes
Mr. Smarty Pants, April 1, 2005
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Lindsey Wagner, Atlantic tsunamis, Mount St. Helens, and Condoleezza Rice
Mr. Smarty Pants, March 25, 2005
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Hydrogen-fueled Hummers and coffee beans in animal droppings
Mr. Smarty Pants, March 18, 2005
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