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Next week's challenge: This week's challenge comes from a listener named Dave, who's from the city and state that's the answer to this puzzle. Name a U.S. city and its state — 12 letters altogether. Change two letters in the state's name. The result will be the two-word title of a classic novel. What is it?

The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press. - Ida B. Wells (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931)

I'm a middle-aged woman of European descent, actually.

Love that song; it's "Big Yellow Taxi" in reverse: the paved parking lot reverts to paradise.

I like both of them.

Happy Birthday, Joe Satriani (b. July 15, 1956)

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. - Iris Murdoch (15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999)

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart. - Emmeline Pankhurst (15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928)

Eddie Izzard, with a goatee, wearing a dress!

I have a friend who lives in San Diego whose three-year-old associates the US flag with the military, so if there's a flag image on her shirt, she says "I'm a Sir!" She also names lots of her toys "Sir." I don't know if she knows anything about Beyoncé, but she'll like the boy's name.

I like to tell jokes about Caesar the Ape and/or ghosts, and/or Prince Phillip, and/or robots/Jealous Machines going into bars. Also, I dislike Barry, so he gets to be the bartender, or in some versions, the soda jerk, in all such jokes.

A Jealous Machine walks into a bar, and orders a Vodka Caesar.

Charles de Ghoul floated into a boulangerie, et il dit: "J'aimerais un verre de bordeaux, s'il vous plaît."

Seriously, it was like "Carrol and I went to hear a band, and we enjoyed the music."

A Bastille Day riddle:

The fascination of any search after truth lies not in the attainment, which at best is found to be very relative, but in the pursuit, where all the powers of the mind and character are brought into play and are absorbed by the task. One feels oneself in contact with something that is infinite and one finds joy that is

The ghost of Michael Jackson moonwalks into a malt shop, and orders a can of Jesus Juice.