Oh. So there’s the beef. Thanks, I’m here all week.

Overheard at Georgetown’s swanky 1789 Restaurant, March 9: Kerry: “…from what I hear, O’Reilly’s been getting a lot of mileage out of the word folks. So I’ve been thinking, why not incorporate it into my own speeches? As a way to connect with the little people, as it were.” Ketchup Heiress: “Ugh. ‘Folks’? Really? It’s so very…plebian sounding.” Kerry: “Of course it is. But you have to admit, it has

Cool! Trivial Pursuit™ picks up more game-card fodder, and I can start using Gillooly in everyday conversation again. It’s a win win situation! Here, check it out: “Oh, don’t mind him, that’s just the gillooly talking.” Or, “My, this gumbo is delicious! Please pass the gillooly.” Gillooly Gillooly Gillooly Gillooly Gillooly. Gilloooooooooolllly. Ah. Tell me that’s not heavenly…

Erstwhile San Francisco 49’ers wide receiver Terrell Owens: Tireless Civil Rights hero? Or greedy over-rated jaggoff…? We report, you decide.

Nobody drugs my bitch and gets away with it. There. I’ve always wanted to say that.

“Et tu, Brute?” Not anymore. “And you too, Brutus?” is what students read in a new genre of study guides that modernize the Elizabethan English found in “Julius Caesar” and other plays by William Shakespeare. These guides move beyond the plot summaries found in other study aides by providing line-by-line translations in modern-day English. Here, let me try: “Yo, Romeo! Where you at? ‘Cause peep this: Juliet’s in the hizzouse.”

Okay. But why…?

Actor Robert Pastorelli, a former boxer best know for his role as “Eldin Bernecky” on “Murphy Brown,” was found dead in his Hollywood home of a suspected drug overdose. He was 49.