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March 05, 1999 Volume II, Number 27
What's Latin for Hiatus?

Title: "What's Latin for Hiatus?" -- Hiatus.

"… Lolita had been written by …" -- "Lolita was a novel by Vladmir Nabokov about a middle-aged man's infatuation and illicit love affair with a young girl.

"Georgie Girl" was a movie about a girl with a weight problem. T'Blisi is the capitol of the Republic of Georgia (formerly Soviet Georgia).

"New Clues Show Life …" -- A play on the enormously popular book by Dr. John Grey, "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus."

"So Many Trees, So Little Time" -- A play on one of the many rejoinders credited to Winston Churchill (Sir, you're drunk. So I am, Madam, but you're ugly and in the morning I shall be sober.) which was approximately "So much whiskey, so little time."

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