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 Karin Elton |
Hi, honey?Fri, July 3, 2009 @ 10:11AM Went to Casey’s last night with my two girls for a quart of oil and a bag of gummy worms. The clerk asked the girls if they were twins. After hearing a “yeah,” he said his mother was a twin and their husbands had trouble telling the two sisters apart. He said, “they looked alike, sounded alike, had the same mannerisms...” Wouldn’t that be weird if you’re a husband and someone walks into the room and you’re not sure if it’s your wife or your sister-in-law? When I lived with my sister in San Francisco I would answer her phone. Her husband would start talking right away and I would have to say “this is Karin” because my sister and I sound alike. But to see the wives and not be sure who was whom, is strange. The husbands probably had to learn the art of finessing. Pretending you know until you kno.
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 Deb Gau |
Summer memoriesWed, July 1, 2009 @ 10:45AM I saw a pickup truck carrying a plastic kiddie pool in the bed the other day. It was the kind with the little waterslide built in - this sounds stupid, but it kind of takes me back. A kiddie pool with a slide was one of the things I coveted most when I was about four or five. Oh, we had a wading pool for our backyard, but it was the floppy vinyl kind that only took shape when you filled it. The sides were taller, so you could put more water in it than the hard plastic pools, but there was no slide. In my five-year-old view, life was just plain unfair. It got to the point where my brother and I (okay, mostly me because my brother was only two at the time) had to get creative. We had one of those Fisher-Price toddler slides around, and we pulled the end of it up over the side of the pool. Finally, I had my waterslide! Unfortunately, every time one of us would slide down, we’d smack into the opposite side of the pool and let out a bunch of wate.
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 Rae Kruger |
American flag where?Fri, July 3, 2009 @ 9:25AM I was annoyed when I saw the front page photo in today's Star Tribune. Not with the photo but with the content. I don't blame the photographer, I don't blame the kid wearing the American flag attire but I do blame a society which seems to believe this is acceptable. Glasses that look like the American flag? Come on. And a head cover that resembles the American flag? Ironic that the child was holding an American flag. The American flag is a symbol of our freedoms and our rights. While I know some of you will disagree with me, I believe the the flag represents the freedom we have to burn it in protest. That is, if it's our own flag and we are not destroying someone else's property. What I find disgusting is use of our national symbol to decorate our heads, over our eyes as glasses, on bumper stickers on our vehicles, on our rear ends or backs on clothing, on stickers, practically any place we can get red, white and blue stripes and stars.
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 Per Peterson |
Dobry zbavovani to GabbyThu, July 2, 2009 @ 12:20PM Another star disappeared from the Minnesota skyline this week when Wild winger Marian (Mary-ANN) Gaborik inked a five-year deal with the New York Rangers. Gaborik joins the likes of Kevin Garnett, David Ortiz, Johan Santana and Randy Moss and superstars who left the State of Corn (whoops, I guess it’s officially the State of Hockey now isn’t it?) to further their budding careers on the East Coast. Well East Coast, you can have this one. Gaborik is truly a dynamic player and goal scorer — ALERT, here comes the kicker: when he’s healthy. “When he’s healthy” is like saying “I did not KNOWINGLY inject an illegal substance into my body, as pro baseball players are wont to say. It’s the same with Gaborik and his “lower body injuries.” What drives Gaborik and makes him the player he is, is his speed. He’s a good puck handler, too, but doesn’t like to play in traffic. That’s where his speed comes in handy.
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 Cindy Votruba |
Michael Jackson...dead or alive?Mon, June 29, 2009 @ 4:45PM Last week I went to Somerset, Wis. for a few days to visit my parents and brother. Practically a non-event in itself until the brother and I got home from shopping Thursday afternoon. Dad’s in his recliner watching the news. It’s reporting that according to TMZ, Michael Jackson was dead. OK, TMZ isn’t exactly high on the list of where I want to get my entertainment information. My brother switches on another channel to Headline News and CNN, which reports that Jackson sustained cardiac arrest and was then in a coma; not dead. OK, so which was it? Is he dead or in a coma? So many conflicting stories. My brother was just amused about how much attention was being paid to the entire story. Finally, the LA Times declared Jackson dead. End of debate, but not the end of the coverage. Then came MTV broadcasting Michael Jackson videos. Pretty soon, VH-1 Classic and MTV2 jumped on the MJ video bandwagon. Got to see "Thriller" again after several years.
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