Today is Friday, the 99th day of 2010. There are 266 days left in the year. Today is National Cherish An Antique Day. Your joints, for instance.

Late night chuckles

"Next week, the president of China will be at the White House. And good news - he has no plans to foreclose."

- Jay Leno

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"To give you an idea how important this visit is from the Chinese president, I understand Joe Biden is busy learning some Chinese curse words."

- Jay Leno

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"In a major reversal of U.S. policy, President Obama has narrowed the conditions under which we would use nuclear weapons. He said we'd only use them against Iran, North Korea or Fox News."

- Jay Leno

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"The government says the economy is bouncing back. So now we can go back to making cars nobody wants. That will be good."

- David Letterman

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"They've been talking about the iPad for months, maybe years. I'm telling you, it took longer for the iPad to come out than it did Ricky Martin."

- David Letterman

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"Experts believe the iPad will revolutionize the way people procrastinate."

- David Letterman

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"Michelle Obama held a town hall meeting on C-SPAN to answer questions from kids about her antiobesity campaign. The most popular question from kids was, 'Why are you doing this to us, lady?' "

- Jimmy Fallon

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"Tiger Woods will play his first golf tournament in five months, and his first tournament in six years without lipstick on his lucky underwear."

- Jimmy Kimmel

Define this

KIRSCHWASSER

Definition No. 1 - An alcoholic drink made from the fermented juice of black cherries.

Definition No. 2 - German pastry filled with sweetened cream cheese and walnuts.

Choose an answer, then check back here Friday to see if you were correct. Of course, there's nothing we can do to prevent you from Googling the word, but you'll know you cheated. And won't you be ashamed?

Scrambler

I ndo't dmin ggnoi nwohere sa nolg sa ti's na etntinrgsie apth.

ANSWERS

DUCAT - Any of several gold or silver coins formerly used in some European countries.

Poeple lliw eccatp ouyr edsai mhcu reom lrydaie fi uyo ellt tehm atht Ijanbmen Iankrlfn dsai ti trfsi. - People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first.

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