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Al Denny describes his career as a best-selling author of self-improvement books. En route to San Francisco for a conference on Birthing Our …
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On the day of abundance, the author takes a moment to confess that life is good.
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The goddess Hera's lawyer, Alan, meets Zeus at a cafe in Rhodes, to persuade him to stop his insatiable philandering. Zeus turns him into a pitcher of …
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Leonard is a cowboy who thinks he should give up this life style. After his horse, Old Dan, steps on Leonard's foot and breaks it, Leonard sits down …
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Vast hordes of barbaric Huns invaded Chicago, Illinois & & took over the savings & loan offices while President Bush was playing badminton in Aspen. Bush, …
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Narrator is a writer who explains that all of his books, including Wagons Westward!!! Hiiiii-YAW! and Ck-ck Giddup Beauty! C'mon Big Girl, Awaaaaayy! …
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Writer deliberately confuses names of well-known people and connects them together in impossible ways. He matches Mark Van Doren, poet & critic with Mamie …
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Story in the form of questioning by a lawyer of Jim, who writes magazine "list articles," such as "Fifteen Great Ideas for Putting New Life in Those Dingy …
REPORTER AT LARGE about writer's visit to Tennessee in May to see his old friend Chet Atkins. Writer and Atkins played golf with a banker from Columbia…
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Preceded by quotation from N.Y. Times of Charles Z. Wick, a member of President Reagan's Kitchen Cabinet. Mr. Wick expresses the opinion that …
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Jack Schmidt's business is raising funds from federal and corporate sources for artists with weird projects. He was a private-eye until Ollie, the …
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In 1954, when the narrator was 12 years old, his cousin drowned in Lake Independence. The narrator's mother made him take swimming lessons at the Y in …
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Two brothers, Edgar and Roy Elmore, opened Elmore's Court restaurant in 1919 in Minneapolis. They served six sandwiches and were immensely popular with…
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Spoof of a scientific treatise based on anthropological study of the Oya people in the Oya Valley. Writer tells of the difficulty in observing the Oya: …
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By Bill Horne Column by Ed Farr (today's replacement for Bill Horne who is sick) about the Flyers, a baseball team that played poorly this season. Farr…