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Children of the Corn
There’s a commercial for bottled water on TV right now that shows kids frolicking in a swimming pool, and a voiceover goes something like: “your children don’t swim in high fructose corn syrup.” The conclusion you’re supposed to draw, I guess, is that your kids shouldn’t eat foods with high fructose corn syrup, and should…
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The Dead Squirrel Conundrum
The following exchange has recently been unearthed from the online archives of the University of Western Ontario’s school newspaper, The Gazette. It occurred in October of 1998, when the instigator of the discussion was just a budding first-year undergraduate student. Get that dead thing outta here Re: Dead things on campus To the Editor: A…
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The Doggone Song is Mine
Sometimes I get a strange feeling when I hear Michael Jackson songs on the radio or TV. I don’t mean the big ones – Billie Jean or Bad or Heal the World – but the lesser-known songs that didn’t get as much play – Dirty Diana, or Human Nature, or Give In To Me. I…
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