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I would let jQuery make up the callback name.

Jake - thanks for the reply. 

Say I do as you suggest meaning  -----> url: "http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?callback=?"

What I still don't get is can I still name my callback ( at the same time ) at YQL? See the screenshot below?  Naming it jims below. I guess what I am really asking is does
?callback=?  mean you cannot name it at YQL? Can you use ?callback=? and jims at the same time?

I would not use jims at all. jQuery is capable of making up a callback name to send to YQL.  

Maybe this can be better explained then in the docs:

jQuery handles all the complex aspects of JSONP behind-the-scenes — all we have to do is tell jQuery the name of the JSONP callback parameter specified by YQL ("callback" in this case), and otherwise the whole process looks and feels like a normal Ajax request.

In laymans terms this says to me YQL is in charge so we must write our AJAX request to pacify YQL.  I believe
you are saying the AJAX request is in charge and YQL better do the right thing on the response.

This for me is where the problem lies.

But Jake thanks for the above code ( works fine ) and what are your thoughts on my "layman" example?

Jim

Jake thanks on this. I decided to modify this last bit of code of yours where the results are returned inside the $.getJSON function:

$.getJSON('http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?callback=?', 'q=select title from rss where url=\"http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/topstories\"', function(data) {
console.log(data); //the entire object returned by jQuery from Yahoo
console.log(data.query.count);  // the number of news articles - count
console.log(data.results);   // the individual articles themselves inside [] meaning an array
});

This works as well. And it helped to better understand for me how $.getJSON  works.

Jim