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Columnist Mr. Smarty Pants Rolls On

Educating Austin Chronicle readers since 1988.

In the July issue of Bay Woof, a San Francisco magazine for dog lovers, Mr. Smarty Pants focuses on canine factoids. Of course.

But in his weekly trivia column for the Austin Chronicle, which he has been writing since 1988, anything goes. Here’s some cocktail party ammo from his latest:

Back in the Twenties, if a man was called a “cake-eating bimbo,” that meant he was a macho ladies’ man. Later, however, “cake-eater” became slang for homosexual.

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