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There have been sooooo many typical Friday articles today...seems like folks are looking to blow off soem steam. :) So here we go...write whatever you want..."unnngh!" "All your base..." etc. Write about missing frogs (him name is pipkin green frog), big booties (please?), or even "ignore this thread!" Whatever you want. :)

TERESA SHARES REMEDY FOR ARTHRITIS AT CAMPAIGN STOP: GIN AND WHITE RAISINS 'You get some gin and get some white raisins — and only white raisins — and soak them in the gin for two weeks. Then eat nine of the raisins a day'... Sung to the tune of Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit One raisin makes you louder One more raisin makes you crawl And the ninth raisin soaked with gin Makes you feel nothing at all Go ask TeresaWhen she's off the wall And if you go on eating raisins And you know Lurch is going to fall Tell...

I'd been here a couple of months, and had begun to worry about handling all the threads. Sooooo, today I grabbed all of the pages by source, grabbed the tables of links to posts to and from me, and sorted them (the easy way, well, as easy as it gets) alpha instead of chrono. Please, don't tell me that there's a way to do that automatically, or my brain will hurt.

Senator John Kerry has just been through one of the most important tests of presidential leadership: leak management. The trial began last weekend, after The Associated Press quoted "campaign officials" saying that Mr. Kerry might delay accepting his party's nomination in order to avoid the restrictions on private fund-raising that apply to a presidential nominee. By not formally accepting at the Democratic convention in July, he could postpone receiving public financing and offset the advantage of President Bush, who will be free to raise private money until he is nominated at the end of August. The news broke on a...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. Residents of Atkins will be looking for a name for its annual springtime festival after the 13th annual Picklefest takes place May 14-15. Members of People for a Better Atkins (PBA) voted during its regular meeting April 1 to come up with another name for its annual downtown festival that has featured live entertainment, athletic contests, booths and concessions and gained national attention since the first Picklefest in 1992. According to PBA president Chuck Colflesh, the organization learned last week through a letter from Dean Foods, based in Green Bay, Wis.,...

A gallon-sized jar of whole pickles is something to behold. The jar is the size of a small aquarium. The fat green pickles, floating in swampy juice, look reptilian, their shapes exaggerated by the glass. It weighs 12 pounds, too big to carry with one hand. The gallon jar of pickles is a display of abundance and excess; it is entrancing, and also vaguely unsettling. This is the product that Wal-Mart fell in love with: Vlasic's gallon jar of pickles.

WASHINGTON (AP) - John Kerry has concluded that federal law bars him from tapping any of his wife's vast Heinz investment fortune for his presidential campaign, removing an arsenal of cash that some Democrats hoped he could use to counter President Bush's fund-raising prowess. Teresa Heinz Kerry's holdings have been estimated at $550 million or more, putting her among the 400 richest Americans on Forbes magazine's list last year. Federal campaign law stipulates that assets solely under the control of Heinz Kerry, including those reported on Kerry's recent Senate disclosure form, can't be used for the Massachusetts Democrat's presidential campaign,...