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What’s Your QQ? #264

Published April 8, 2012 in the Monterey County Herald.
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BONUS QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”  —Margaret Atwood

 (Atwood is an award-winning Canadian novelist, poet and literary critic.)


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What’s Your QQ? #259

Published March 4, 2012 in the Monterey County Herald

 

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BONUS QUOTE OF THE DAY:

 

 “There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.” – Josh Billings

 (Josh Billings was the pen name of humorist Henry Wheeler Shaw, 1818-1885.)

Special Note: This quiz marks the five-year anniversary of “What’s My QQ?” I wish to thank the Monterey County Herald for allowing me the opportunity and space in the newspaper every week, and to my loyal readers (both of you) who inspire me in my continuing effort to be creative with other people’s words.


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What’s Your QQ? #250

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BONUS QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So let’s just wish each other a bileless New Year and leave it at that.”  – Judith Crist

 (Crist, now 89, was one of New York’s foremost film and theater critics.)



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What’s Your QQ? #242

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BONUS QUOTE OF THE DAY

“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.” – John Cage

 (Cage, 1912-1992, was an American experimental music composer.)

 


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