Setup: What Hannibal Lechter said when he had devoured a young girl and had been brought in for questioning.
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PALINDROMANIA WIN EMMONS Waco, Texas Setup : What Hannibal Lechter said when he had devoured a young girl and had been brought in for questioning Answer: MAIDE I ATE--DETAINED lAM -Setup: I emitted deep sounds of passion as I made love to Naomj , who was naked and on top Answer: I MOANED UNDER A BARED NUDE NAOMI Setup : Mr. Kramer wondered whether the poem on mammals he had read had a Middle East religious slant Answer: "WAS ISLAM IN AN ODE," KRAMER REMARKED, "0 ANLMALS I S W?" Setup : Describing Igor, a refined black solmer who can also run very fast Answer: IGOR, GE TEEL FLEET NEGRO GI Setup : A landlord has been trying to force a couple to give up their unusual pet as there is a no-pets policy. In an unusual circumstance the pet saved the landlord 's life, prompting the husband to ask whether the rule will be rescinded in their case Answer: HE WON'T EVICT CIVET OW, EH? Setup: A man is asked ifhis brother Wesley is doing better after a recent illness Answer: NO, WES PALER AS A RELAPSE WON Setup : Someone comments to the artist Edgar Degas that she viewed Sam g ttill a rubd wn Answer: DEGAS, SAM WAS, I SAW, MASSAGED Setup : My goodness, Ann, look at that huge grassy plain ahead! Answer: OH, ANN, A VAST SAVANNAH! O! Setup : Art is irritated by the vice-president in charge of trading for all xp rt-Ul1P rt finn Answer: TRADE VEEP PEEVED ART Setup: A Spanish woman confinns that yes, Emil , Mr. Egan and Mr. rt. n n 'u.l til m Answer: SI, ORTA, EGAN, EM AT A MENAGE A TROIS Setup : Elma is enjoying her Shakespeare cours reailing in bed well into the night. Her Answer: PUT, ELMA, HAMLET UP 10 so mu h that h ' n1\'t put h r asks h r t t P readm h' II 11 Setup: "Red" Jones is at the track getting advice that the horse named after The Three Musketeers author is good on a sloppy track Answer: RED, DUMAS IS A MUDDER Setup: The head of a research facility admits to Lewis that the reason business has fallen off is that he hasn 't been able to break away from his hobby, refereeing Fussball games Answer: WELL, LAB 'S SUFFERING IS A SIGN I REF FUSSBALL, LEW Setup: A woman exclaims in disbelief upon finding out that her husband, Red, has been having an affair with a slut down the block Answer: RED, NO! WHORE! HER? OH, WONDER! Setup: A Greek informs his friend Rex that despite having recently been divorced, Xerxes has still been making it quite often with his former wife Answer: XERXES TAXES EX AT SEX, REX Setup: Holy cow, Ned, Princess Diana is secretly keeping a dog in Buckingham palace, against all the rules Answer: GOD, NED--DJ HAS A HIDDEN DOG Setup: Mr. Berg is told to be polite and acknowledge the Yugoslavian Mafia chieftain Answer: NOD, BERG: A ZAGREB DON Setup: Lester, don 't try to pawn off those spuds on Opal Answer: SELL A POTATO NOT AT OPAL, LES Setup: After having taken a bite from an apple already bitten into by someone with bubonic plague, a man calls for assistance from actor AI Pacino Answer: 0 , HELP, PACINO. BUBONIC APPLE--HO! Setup: Abe, this former Israeli prime minister has a degree in business administration Answer: ABBA EBAN, ABE, A B.B.A Setup: A young Brooklyn tough, a punk who got his kicks by terrorizing the local Jewish Hasidic community, crows to his brother that fellow gang member Barnard has forced several rabbis to leave Answer: YO, BOFFO, SIB! BARNARD RAN RABBIS OFF--O BOY! Setup: Someone is amused that the hit will be done by a Scandanavian stewardess named Sarah Answer: HAR! ASSASSIN IS S.A.S. SARAH Setup: That Chinese-American English professor who detests Romeo and Juliet sure is stupid! Answer: SINO 'ROMEO' FOE MORON IS Setup: Did King Eli, tenth in a long family reign, banish Dido? Answer: 0 , DID ELI X EXILE DIDO? 12 Setup: Answer to the question "Well, where did you go during the war in order to be safe and on neutral ground?" Answer: GENEVA HAD A HAYEN, E.G. Setup: Jack Harris and Ulf Sandstrom, two professors at the local college, are instructed by the dean to be sure that a troublemaker from u Theta fraternity, a southern Louisiana bo , flunks out Answer: FLUNK CAJUN NU, JACK 'N' ULF Setup: Tell Bishop Desmond Tutu ' s oriental rug expert that he ought to be ashamed of himself Answer: TUT, TUT, TUTU RUG GURU--TUT, TUT, TUT! -Setup: Mister, Boris gained a lot of weight from eating feta cheese Answer: ATE FETA, SlR--OBESE BORIS ATE FETA Setup: And furthermore, the effort by organized labor to establish an AFL-CIO local for nuns in Viet Nam is really amusing Answer: TOO, HA 01 NUN UNION A HOOT Setup: Albert, Laura loves her small imported car so much that she kisses it Answer: LAURA BUSSES SUBARU, AL Setup: Dee has just fixed Ed up with her roommate, Toni . Ed leaves Dee a note commenting on Toni 's sexual attractiveness Answer: DEE, TONI'S SENSUOUSNESS I NOTE--ED Setup: O'Malley asks a youngster about Ella who lives in Salt Lake City-is she b an chan a Presbyterian? Answer: NO, MR. O' MALLEY, ELLA MORMO Setup: A man and his wife Ellen own a small restaurant where the sell pizza and Italian SIlud-wiches. He asks her whether they should cut back on the sandwich in fa r f pin,a Answer: LESSEN I SUB BUSINESS, EL? Setup: Von, even the village idiot saw I was not descended from the Russian ro Answer: VON, A MORON SAW I WAS NO ROMANO Setup: Ana, grab that monkey in order to get the fruit he is eating Answer: ANA, NAB A SIMIAN--AIM IS A BANANA I fumll ' -Setup: The proprietor at the Lusty T ranch relates to th captain fth autilu that hi I where the sultans of the Middle East send their har illS for sun and fun Answer: NEMO, WE TAN AT LUSTY "T' SULTA ATE WOMr:r'l Setup: Yes, the only thing [will ask for as paym ot II c rtain Answer: YAKS ALL I WlLL ASK, A ! f \I \;}JI 13 Setup: The cook in a backwoods greasy spoon yells to the counterman that the liquefied venison is ready to be served Answer: PUREED DEER UP! Setup: The thuggy prince, son of the king despised for plundering the country's peasants, haughtily tells Eva Herman that he possesses a royal sneer of superiority -Answer: EVA H., REGAL LIP I, PILLAGER, HAVE Setup: A well-known seed company has decided to expand its product line by selling a balm derived from an extract of some of its special seeds. Its name? Answer: BURPEE DEEP RUB Setup: Reggie, Elliot Ness, the nemesis of Chicago bootleggers, is on the train with us Answer: REG, NESS A PASSENGER Setup: A lazy college athlete complains that his laboratory session is too far across campus Answer: SIR, A FOOTBALL LAB TOO FARIS Setup: A pet shop customer, deciding that the man-eating fish are overpriced, tells this to the owner, Mr. Kahn Answer: PIRANHA, KAHN, A RIP Setup: Lemuel became aware that it was Melvin 's job to engage in foreplay with Eva Answer: MEL WAS TO HA VE EVA HOT, SAW LEM Setup: Listen--when he' s drunk and not with his girlfriend Eva, his behavior is abominable Answer: HEY, LIT SANS EVA, HE BEHAVES NASTILY, EH? Setup: An archaleological detective, asking a citizen of Rhodes if there is a large statue located in the harbor, receives the following reply Answer: SI, DET, A COLOSSUS SO LOCATED IS Setup: Delia, Dad was able to make it with the weirdest woman in Naples Answer: DELIA, NAPLES ' MAD DAMSEL PA NAILED Setup: Geoge Gobel has retired and is living near a swamp in Spain Answer: GOBEL LIVES AT A SEVILLE BOG Setup : Evelyn, there' s a loud noise from a little room off the hall Answer: EV, 0 CLAMOR FROM ALCOVE Setup : Darling, that antelope doesn 't have a particularly long penis Answer: 0 HUNG G U, HON Setup : Where they do drug testing in the South Pacific Answer: BALI LAB 14 Setup: A much-decorated Confederate soldier, asked whether the South after the war recovered an operatic manuscript stolen by General Sherman, replies in the affirmative Answer: DID, 0 HERO, C.S .A. REPOSSESS OPERA SCORE? HO--DID! Setup: Melvin is trying to prove a theorem, but is having trouble. The speaker notes to Dee and Sam that what Melvin needs is a couple of preliminary results proved yesterday in class Answer: DEE ' N' SAM, MEL DID LEMMAS NEED Setup: In a lackadaisical operating room, a doctor yells to Elmore to close Wesley's wound Answer: HEY, EL, SEW WESLEY, EH? Setup: in a small southern town the General Motors dealership has been broken into. The sheriff informs his deputy that Ida did it, but all she got away with was a beat-up old Cadillac Answer: DEP., PO ' CADILLAC ALL IDA COPPED Setup: A woman frets whether her antique dealer has sold out his last China shipment, but is reassured by her husband that something has been held back for her Answer: NO, HE SAVED A JADE VASE, HO Setup: The speaker asks his audience to acknowledge that a poem of John Donne titled .. has both good and bad qualities Answer: DONNE " VE US" UNEVE -- OD! enus Setup : Magellan, back at work after his circumnavigation of the world, tells his boss that he wished he could have crossed the isthmus of Panama Answer: YO, BOSS! I, MAGELLAN, A CANAL LEG A MISS--O BOY! Setup: The speaker tells Ogden Nash that Santa Claus is really a hip laid-back kind of guy Answer: OH, OH, OH! SANTA CLAUS A CASUAL CAT, ASH--O, HOHO! Setup: A young Asian boy, questioned about his maternal lineage, gi es th following ply Answer: SIAMESE MA IS Setup : A lady librarian tells an arbitrageur how she has mastered the art f up r lit usn Answer: NOTE LIBRARIAN AIR, ARB, I LET 0 Setup : Listen, Obadiah, those young men need help--wh not support Big B . th rs Answer: HEY, OBADIAH, AlD A BOY, EH? Setup: You ' re wrong, Sid--mirrors do not have red borders Answer: SID, ERROR--R1M ON NO MIRROR RED I Setup : An Italian vacationer tells his buddi s Levi and rthur tllat h " 1\ en \I 'h III th r game last night to visit the Leaning Tower Answer: AS I POT WON, LEV, ART, I TRA EL OW T PI " 15 Setup: A former Nazi concentration camp commandant tells Robert that he was in charge of a hell-hole Answer: ROB, I BOSSED A HADES: SOBIBOR Setup: A courtier clears his throat a couple of times to announce the entrance of a member of the Hawaiian royal family Answer: AHEM! AHEM! A KAMEHAMEHA Setup: I tell Diana that I would steer clear of desserts made with bad eggs Answer: DI, OVA-DISTRESSED DESSERTS I'D AVOID Setup: What Wall Streeters called the first offeringJor stock in Ron Howard's production company Answer: OPIE I.P.O. Setup: Robert, unable to speak, was the man in charge of a large wooded park Answer: MUTE ROB RAN AN ARBORETUM Setup: Los Angeles is both crazy and huge Answer: LA'S SO LOCO, SO COLOSSAL Setup: A very wide frankfurter in Germany Answer: EIN 'EE' WEENIE Setup: Identify the woman gaping wide-eyed at a CLuadrilateral with two pairs of parallel sides Answer: MARGO LELLA, RAPT AT PARALLELOGRAM Setup: What a stannous compound contains (brush up on your high school chemistry) Answer: TIN IS IN IT Setup: Someone points out to former Celtics coach and star player Jones a snack treat which consists of a skewered piece of smoked pig from a famed Nebraska meat-packing town Answer: K.C., IT'S AN OMAHA HAM ON A STICK Setup: Grindl's slayer is questioned about his sneezing and runny nose Answer: FLU WOE, BEOWULF? Setup:Nan is covered with a bad case of zits which she picked up in the mountains of South America Answer: ENCASED NAN IS, IN ANDES ACNE Setup: European citizen wishing to travel abroad laments the recent drop in purchasing power attributable to the decline in the new European currency Answer: EURO DIP I DO RUE 

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