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Try to remember the best of September

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The figures are in for this blog’s most popular posts in September, and readers showed a wide variety of interests. They flocked to our pieces on rugby, especially the nude variety, and were eager to learn about flying machines and submarines you can build at home.

Throw in some arts, politics and entertainment, and you’ve got a well-rounded month for folks who no longer need constant supervision.

Thanks for coming back, readers.

Here you go, your top 10 for the month. Now go out in the yard and build those planes and submarines!

10.  Welcome to the Barney Fife Pistol Range

9. She’s the Darjeeling of the Tea Party? 

8. How many floozies live at this address?

7. It’s just like in the disaster movies!

6. The club doesn’t have a dress code, huh?

5. So it’s the nudes vs. the dorks?

4. Nobody booed, and the players were nude?

3.  Our ten-second in-flight movie will be…

2. Cocktails with Miss Universe, sir?

1. Great science projects for your family

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Top: Miss Universe 2011 contestants enjoy a samba dance class at the Vila Maria samba school in Sao Paulo September 4, 2011. REUTERS/Patrick Prather/Miss Universe Organization, L.P. LLLP./Handout

Cocktails with Miss Universe, sir?

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Blog Guy, I don’t see how you can cover Miss Universe year after year. It’s so boring, it never changes!

That’s where you’re wrong. Compared with the old days, the modern pageant is much more complex and demanding.

Why is our waitress twirling a baton?

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Blog Guy, I love going out to restaurants, but I enjoy being surrounded by beautiful women. I find standards are falling in that area lately.

You don’t sound like a terribly evolved person.

No, I’m as shallow as they come. So is there someplace I can go where my sensitivities won’t be offended?