“One more irony and I think I’ll rust.” -- Is a stupid pun on the old phrase “I think I’ll bust.” The word Irony being a pun on the word iron led me to . . . oh, never mind.

“… a small pile of salt …” -- From the Biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah. And that’s saying a Lot.

“If CJ Rehnquist will make appropriate adjustments … “ -- CJ (Chief Justice) Rehnquist is reported to have put the stripes on his robe after having seen a Gilbert and Sullivan play. Pope John Paul II was wearing wonderfully colorful vestments in St. Louis yesterday.

“Who played the David Kendall role in Hud?” -- Hud was a Paul Newman movie in which a small time thief goes to prison for taking the head off a parking meter and ends up dead. “What we have here is a failure to communicate,” is the famous line from this movie uttered by Strother Martin.