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Submitted by John Spencer Yantiss, Nov 30, 2007 16:48

As Sherlock Holmes was wont to say, "Wey hey," Emmett! It is good to turn to the best paper--either print or Web-based--and find the best kind of humour, to wit, the truth put into the comical setting of real life. "Back in the day" that is the way such huourists as Twain and Rogers did it. Thank God there are some latter-day journalists of the same ilk around! I makes "news," the doings of human society. that would otherwise be discouraging, almost palatable.


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