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Aug. 26, 2006

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Who's Carl This Time?

Quote 1

Carl: "My very educated mother just served us nine pizzas."

That mnemonic device no longer applies now that what has been demoted?

• Answer 1

Quote 2

Carl: "All of a sudden, you can question anything you serve in a restaurant -- the poor snails and the mussels and the shrimp, the lobsters. You can go on and on."

That was Chicago Mayor Richard Daley lamenting a city-wide ban on what that went into effect this week?

Hint: Morbidly obese geese all over France are rejoicing.

• Answer 2

Quote 3

Carl: "It's nothing to do with his acting ability; he's a terrific actor. But we don't think that someone who effectuates creative suicide and costs the company revenue should be on the lot."

That's the elderly and more than a little decrepit Sumner Redstone, chief of Viacom, explaining why his company, Paramount Pictures, told its biggest star to take his antics elsewhere... who?

• Answer 3

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