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  • Good Morning to you

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    This morning as I walked through Times Square, I walked down the block where “Good Morning America is filmed. As I walked past the stage door, out popped ABCNEWS’ Diane Sawyer. I gave her a hearty “Good Morning” and after a stunned second, in which she seemed puzzled, she gave me one back. Hello? It’s…

  • Spock, there’s no intelligent life here….

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    CNN.com – Qapla’! Hospital seeks Klingon speaker – May. 10, 2003 PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) — Position Available: Interpreter, must be fluent in Klingon. The language created for the “Star Trek” TV series and movies is one of about 55 needed by the office that treats mental health patients in metropolitan Multnomah County. “We have to…

  • Don’t Drink (coffee) and Drive in NJ

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    Philadelphia Inquirer | 05/09/2003 | N.J. driving bill puts phone ban on hold N.J. driving bill puts phone ban on hold By Mitch Lipka Inquirer Trenton Bureau TRENTON – Drivers could be pulled over and ticketed for eating, drinking or reading while driving in New Jersey – in addition to talking on cellular phones –…

  • Mother’s Day

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    When it is time to pull out all the stops and impress the mother of your children, you have very little choice. Pancakes. You gotta pull out the pancakes. Fortunately, I had the “perfect pancake maker” (as seen on tv.) The results were satisfying.

  • Goodbye Sam

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    In the end, as they say, we’re all dead. After that, maybe we’re judged, as so many religions suggest. The living will never get to hear the verdict. However, if tonight’s memorial is any indication, Sam Albert is going to heaven. The sad thing about memorials is that the dead never physically hear what people…