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According to news reports, some U.S. citizens feel that the new surveys being issued by the U.S. Census Bureau are too invasive and ask questions that violate people’s privacy. What are some of the questions being asked?

–*Do you have a mortgage?

–*Do you have adjustable rate mortgage?

–*Did you flee a house because you couldn’t pay the adjustable rate mortgage?

–*Are you at your sister’s now? Didn’t she predict this would happen?

–*Did you know when you showed up at your sister’s door that she would get that look, the one that says she’s disappointed in you?

–*Wouldn’t you like to smack her when she looks at you like that?

–*Do you own a car?

–*And by that I mean, do you have a car in your possession, even though you have no moral, legal or ethical right to one.

–*Does your penis hang to the left or to the right?

–*Do you have a name for your penis?

–*Is it Shemp?

–*When was the last time you gave somebody a hug?

–*Did it give you a boner?

–*Did it give them a boner?

–*When you arouse the attraction of the opposite sex, are you doing it on purpose, or are you totally innocent of the provocative manner in which you prance about like a tit?

–*Why should we believe you when you wear tops like that?

–*Do you like Brad Pitt?

–*Do you really think he knows who you are or gives a shit about you?

–*Do you see how stupid you’re acting with that obsession of yours, reading about him in People magazine and whatnot?

–*Are you stupid?

–*Are you an invalid?

–*Are you able to bathe yourself?

–*Even that hard to reach spot in the back?

–*If you don’t bathe yourself, who is doing it? How does he touch you? Is he tender? Do you give him time to be tender?

–*Are you ambidextrous or double jointed or limp wristed?

–*How long does it take you to get to work and how easy is it to masturbate in the bathroom there?

–*Can a smile make your day?

–*How about an abortion?

–*Do you eat organic fruit?

–*Why do you bother when someday the sun will envelop the Earth?

–*Have you ever ripped somebody’s arm off and beat him to death with the bloody stump? Would you not have the moral conviction to do so even if it were absolutely necessary? Explain.

–*What have you got against dwarfs? Be honest, now.

–*How have you personally made redress to the American Indian?

–*Is your sense of well-being and self-esteem wounded when you see pictures of Lance Armstrong on a bicycle?

–*If so, how much do you weigh?

–*Would you like some Twizzlers?

–*Would you like them right now?

–*Do you carpool, or do you just think “Fuck the environment”?

–*Have you ever shot yourself in the leg to get out of the Vietnam War or a bad family argument? How’d it work out?

–*Why can’t you say “I love you”?

–*On the other hand, how is it that you get away with saying “I love you” so easily?

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Topeka, Kansas (API) Karaoke night was almost ruined Friday as two revelers in the local karaoke bar The Rubber Hose chose a song from Broadway musical “Avenue Q” for the night’s 11th number, a choice that sent many of the bar’s patron’s into befuddlement, grousing and ultimately acts of violence.

The two singers, Liz Miller and Melissa Snow, chose the song from the hit Broadway parody of Sesame Street because they had seen it on a recent trip to New York, but the number nearly brought the festivities to a screeching halt when several of the flummoxed patrons stood dead silent.

“I don’t know what those girls were singing,” said Ross McAdams, a middle manager at a nearby natural gas refining plant. “I was just coming off feeling real good about my “Hotel California” vocal and then these two girls come up with this shit.”

What made it worse, said local tax attorney Florence Halberstadt, is that the two girls picked a song called “Schadenfreude,” a word many of the patrons were unfamiliar with.

“I just don’t get what those two girls are singing,” said Halberstadt. “I came here to have fun. If I knew this was going to turn into some German song night I would have stayed home.”

“I don’t get it,” said Ed Chalmers, a plumber. “Are those two making fun of us?”

The crowd became increasingly pouty and dejected as the lyrics scrolled across the screen. Even though the song offers much helpful explication of the word “Schaudenfreude,” mainly through humorous contexts, the wit was largely lost on the crowd, many of whom turned angry and sour.

“It’s my birthday,” said Holly Knoxall, a local gym teacher. “It’s totally ruined now, all because a couple of no-goodniks think they’re better than we are.”

A winner of several Tony Awards, Avenue Q uses parodies of several Sesame Street characters to address mature themes like adult sexuality, racism and intolerance, mostly by having its characters espouse extreme viewpoints at odds with those of the artist’s true feelings.

“Specifically it’s called ‘irony,’” Liz Miller said to the crowd. “Get a clue, jerk-offs!”

But yet again, tackling of subject matter by having a character embrace the very viewpoint being satirized was something poorly understood by the crowd, many of whom were drinking Rolling Rock and smoking Camels and singing mostly songs by the Beach Boys, the Eagles and U2 and many of whom showed they were in absolutely no mood to be made to feel inferior.

“These two little ho bags are pissing me off,” said Harold Osprey, who ended the night yelling at his girlfriend and telling her, “Get in the car, bitch. If I stay, somebody’s going to get hurt.”

Having almost ended one of the song’s signature lines, “Fuck you lady, that’s what stairs are for,” Miller and Snow hoped the song might finally inspire a few belly laughs, but by that point, several of the patrons had started pushing each other at the bar and were no longer in any mood to laugh. Instead, it seemed blood sport would be the night’s game, and as the lone karaoke machine played “Schadenfreude, making the world a better place …” the atmosphere in the bar finally descended into shouts, flying beer bottles and fire.

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