Using stats the way we read them we'll find value in players that nobody else can see
MONEYBALL
This term for a tapering or triangular flag is also used to mean a baseball league championship
Pennant
This man founded RI
Roger Williams
Also known as Generation Y this group of young adults was born between 1982 & 2000
MILLENNIALS
One of Emily Post's Ten Conversation Stoppers is asking a woman When are you ___ (this 3-letter word)
DUE
All my life I've been waiting for someone & when I find her she's... she's a fish
Splash
Gilbert Baker designed this flag first seen at 1978 gay pride activities
The Rainbow Flag
Rhode Island's nickname
The Ocean State
Of a third, half or two-thirds the approximate fraction of American adults with at least a bachelor's degree
A Third
In a traditional wedding procession the bride & groom bat leadoff then the flower girl & a young person with this job
RINGBEARER
2003: Santaaaa! Oh my God! Santa here? I know him! I know him
Elf
This emblem on Canada's flag was changed from green to red to show the maturity of the country
A Maple Leaf
The 3 smallest states by area
Rhode Island, Delaware, Connecticut
Response rates for these, a vital research tool of sociologists, have fallen from about 30% to 10% in recent years
A SURVEY (OR PUBLIC OPINION POLL)
It's often said to those with hay fever & columnist Miss Conduct says it's okay to say it to an atheist
GOD BLESS YOU
2007: Spider-Pig Spider-Pig does whatever a Spider-Pig does can he swing from a web no he can't he's a pig
The Simpsons
These 2 of the 3 Benelux countries have similar red white & blue flags
THE NETHERLANDS AND LUXEMBOURG
3 of the 4 smallest states by population
Wyoming, Vermont, North Dakota, Alaska
Back in 1868 N.Y.'s gov. made note of homelessness among these men; now there's a whole Cabinet dept. to help them
Veterans
Miss Manners says not Miss but this palindrome works for a woman old enough to do her own banking
MA'AM
1969: Think you used enough dynamite there Butch?
BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID
The blue triangle on the flag of this relatively new nation represents the Nile
South Sudan
In the 19th century this town was known as the summer capital of high society
Newport
In 1977 the A.S.A. president defined it as a set of norms & values ...that sharply contradict the dominant ones
COUNTERCULTURE
Millennials prefer texts & think it's a waste of the recipient's time to leave this except maybe to say happy birthday
VOICEMAIL