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“I am so sorry to hear of Barb's passing. I worked with Barbara about 17 years ago. We went out to lunch all the time and always laughed our heads...Read More »
1 of 19 | Posted by: Kara Morelli - Troy, NY

“My heart goes out to all the family and friends of Barb. She was such a beautiful person and it showed in so many ways. Yes, we have lost a beautiful...Read More »
2 of 19 | Posted by: Michael Galvin - Scotia, NY

“I am deeply saddened to hear of Barb’s passing. Barb was a wonderful person and a devoted friend. Her angelic nature was infectious- always being...Read More »
3 of 19 | Posted by: Matthew Johnson - Friend

“I remember her as fun, loving, and energetic. She willed be missed by many. I am sorry it has been so long since i seen her and look forward to...Read More »
4 of 19 | Posted by: Eric Hollenbeck - Corinth, NY

“Very sad to hear the news of Barb's passing. Worked with her for many years at APA Partners. She was always smiling and positive. Thoughts and...Read More »
5 of 19 | Posted by: cathy alvey - latham, NY

“Kind heart, super mom, never ending ambition and a lovely girl that will be remembered until the end of time. She faced and conquered many of God's...Read More »
6 of 19 | Posted by: Janice Thompson - Troy, NY

“May you rest in peace, you will be remembered and never forgotten. ”
7 of 19 | Posted by: diane mccabe - malta, NY - friend

“Barb was one of the kindest and thoughtful person, always thinking of others. I am very sad to hear of her passing. My thoughts and prayers are...Read More »
8 of 19 | Posted by: Darlene Siler - Schenectady, NY

“I am very sad to hear of the passing of Barb. She was such a sweet and kind person. Thoughts and prayers go out to her and her family at this very...Read More »
9 of 19 | Posted by: Rita Schmidt

“My heart is heavy that Barb is no longer here with us on earth. I will always remember the past 21 years of girl talks we had. I will never forget...Read More »
10 of 19 | Posted by: Paula Paniccia - Duanesburg, NY

“I have fond memories of Barb while working with her at The Lawrence Group. Although it's been over 10 years since I've had contact with Barb, I will...Read More »
11 of 19 | Posted by: Cindy Krowel - Burnt Hills, NY

“WOW... I am in shock by this news. So sad. I meet Barb. bowling and then from working at the nursing home, meet her mom and sister. We loved to...Read More »
12 of 19 | Posted by: Tina Bailey - Abany, NM - Friend

“Annette, Marc and family, I was saddened to learn of Barb's passing-She was always fun to be around, full of life and fun. I will always remember...Read More »
13 of 19 | Posted by: tina and ben - Niskayuna, NY

“I am very sorry to hear of Barb's passing. She was a lot of fun to work with at APA. ”
14 of 19 | Posted by: Erica Teiper - Colonie, NY

“I am sorry to hear of Barb's passing. She was a lovely person. My sincere condolences to her family. God Bless ”
15 of 19 | Posted by: Donna Smith - Schenectady, NY

“So sorry to hear of your loss. Enjoyed working with Barb while she was at MVP. ”
16 of 19 | Posted by: Mary Dougherty - Wakefield, MA

“I have worked with Barb for many years at Lawrence Group and APA, and always thought she was a sweet and kind person. She always had a smile on her...Read More »
17 of 19 | Posted by: Julia Coons - Colonie, NY

“Barb was such a wonderful person, we had many years of working together at Lawrence Group and APA. She would do anything to help. Her son Chris was...Read More »
18 of 19 | Posted by: Sandy Mead - Amsterdam, NY

“I was fortunate to work with Barb over the years and know a woman who cherished her son and was a very giving loving woman. Peace to her family. ”
19 of 19 | Posted by: Bonita Joslin - Glenville, NY

Schenectady-Barbara J. Alling, 45, passed away at Ellis Hospital on August 11, 2011.

Born on March 8, 1966 in Niskayuna, daughter of the late Lawrence and Marion (Miller) Hubert, Sr.

She was employed by MVP Healthcare in Schenectady. Barbara was a devoted and loving mother to her son, Christopher. His care was her first priority.

Survivors in addition to her son Christopher Wideman of Albany include her companion, Bryan Thompson of Schenectady, her siblings, Rev. Lawrence W. Hubert, Jr. of Esperence, Carol (Don) Trotter of Texas, Marion (Dave) Sullivan of Brunswick and Annette (Marc) Hathaway of Rotterdam. Also, several nieces, nephews and cousins.

In addition to her parents, Barbara is predeceased by her sister Patricia Schaible.

Visiting will be from 5-7pm on Wednesday, August 17 at the Jones Funeral Home, Inc. 1503 Union Street, Schenectady. Prayers will follow at 7 in the funeral home with Rev. Lawrence W. Hubert, Jr. officiating. Burial will be at the convenience of the family.

In lieu of flowers, kindly consider donations to the Center for Disability C/O Chris Wideman, 82 Woodside Drive, Albany, NY 12208 in Barbara’s memory.


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The Wrap reports that MGM has set Cohen to direct the remake from a script by Michael Stokes, who previously wrote the script for ‘Crash Bandits,’ another action vehicle that Cohen is directing. Cohen is currently working on the Jennifer Lopez thriller ‘The Boy Next Door’ for Blumhouse as a follow-up to ‘Alex Cross.’

MGM has been in the business of trying to recycle some of its classic properties lately, with ‘Carrie‘ being its most recent attempt (and failure), while a ‘Poltergeist‘ remake is also in the works. (We’re still a little optimistic about that one — it does star Sam Rockwell, after all.)

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After a long run at the top, Marco Rubio has been overtaken by Bobby Jindal as Hot Air’s pick for vice president. Allen West came in third, followed by Paul Ryan and Condoleezza Rice. Over 2300 votes were cast:

How likely do readers think it is that Mitt Romney will win? Pretty darn likely, actually, to the tune of about a 73% chance overall.

And with how many electoral votes? The average, mode, and median EV predictions all hover right around 300. That’d be a very big win.

Also, the survey’s demographics have remained remarkably consistent over time; the number of voters over age fifty was roughly the same as the number of voters under fifty, and the gender breakdown was again right about 70-30 men-to-women. That’s all pretty standard for Hot Air surveys.

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Good results Patrick. Thanks for the poll. My pick, the one from the get go is West and nice to see others like him also. The top three are great picks, IMO!

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Since launching the MobileMe syncing service in July, Apple has been working on various fixes. Earlier this week, Apple revealed that 27 changes were made late last month. MobileMe is a hosted service, so you don’t have to do anything to get the updates—Apple made all of the changes on the servers. All components of the service were affected by the update, with MobileMe Mail receiving the most updates. Keyboard shortcuts that didn’t behave as expected were fixed, along with a bug that didn’t remove messages from the Drafts folder once they were sent. MobileMe Mail users should also see improved performance when first logging in to MobileMe Mail and also when Junk Mail Filtering is enabled.

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MobileMe has had problems since it was launched. Shortly after releasing the service, Apple apologized for the continuing problems users were experiencing and offered members a 30-day addition. Not long after, Steve Jobs issued a memo to employees stating that the service was not up to Apple’s standards. The company then issued another extension, this time for 60-days.

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The Minx has posted about Great Sage in Clarksville, and she says the food was so good that it almost brought her back to a vegetarian life.  I haven't been back since the kitchen went completely vegan.  We should try it again.

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JERSEY CITY - As the Hudson County region struggles to return to normal in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the area faced challenges due to the midweek nor'easter. The nor'easter, which has been named Athena, brought high winds, snow and rain, and was likely to cause potential storm surges to the area through Thursday morning.

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High risk pools are workable alternative to costly pre-existing condition mandate
Some Republicans are now suggesting what Bill and Hillary Clinton proposed in 1993.

Every Republican is campaigning on a theme of “repeal and replace” the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, known as ObamaCare; but, given recent comments from some Republicans, maybe it should be “repeal and embrace.”

Their newfound fondness for some ObamaCare mandates is reportedly based on the notion that they’re popular, not because they’re good policy—which is the very worst way to try and regulate the health insurance system. Or anything else, for that matter.

It’s a pattern we have seen before from Republicans with respect to health care legislation—e.g., the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and State Children’s Health Insurance Program of 1997, to name two. These Republicans adamantly denounce and oppose liberal Democratic reforms, but eventually embrace a Democratic-lite version and claim it’s the free market approach.

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Republicans are considering retaining the most costly of the act’s mandates: The requirement that health insurers accept any applicant regardless of health status, known as “guaranteed issue.”

Polls show that most people think that if they’re uninsured and have a pre-existing medical condition they should be able to get health coverage. But that goal can be achieved without the pre-existing condition mandate, which only encourages people to game the system by waiting until they need coverage to get it. That’s one reason Democrats included the individual mandate requiring people to have coverage.

Under guaranteed issue, many people, especially the young and healthy, drop their coverage knowing they can return if they need expensive medical care, leaving the pool very small, very sick and very expensive.

How expensive? When President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton attempted to socialize the U.S. health care system in the early 1990s, Democrats in eight states—New Jersey, Massachusetts, Vermont, New York, Maine, New Hampshire, Washington and Kentucky—imposed guaranteed issue without a coverage mandate in their individual market, where individuals buy their own health insurance. That’s essentially what some Republicans are now suggesting. (Note: employer-based group health insurance, which covers 165 million Americans, has been guaranteed issue for years.)

New Jersey was the easiest to track since the state published health insurance premium costs for all of the available policies.

Between 1994, when guaranteed issue went into effect, and 2004 (when a book, “Destroying Health Insurance Markets,” comparing the changes was published), the monthly premium for a Plan D ($500 deductible) family policy sold by Aetna grew from $769 to $6,025 a month; Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey’s family policy rose from $695 to $5,239 a month; and Fortis’s went from $847 to an unbelievable $17,356 a month.

In order to mitigate some of the gaming, some people are suggesting an annual “open season,” which allows people to obtain coverage or switch health insurers during a designated time. The Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan has such an annual open season.

However, the man who used to manage the traditional health plans in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan once told me people still gamed the system, even though he did his best to stop it.

What successful states do right

The better solution—and one that most Republicans and many Democrats support—is a state-based high-risk pool. Thirty-five states had already established such pools, covering about 222,000 uninsurable Americans, when the Affordable Care Act was passed.

Strangely, the act actually created a new, mostly redundant, system of high-risk pools until guaranteed issue takes effect in 2014. However, the Obamacare version never attracted the hundreds of thousands of enrollees it predicted—only about 62,000 people are currently enrolled.

The pools provide several health insurance options and usually operate through a state insurer, like the Blue Cross Plan. Premiums are higher than a standard policy, and yet all the pools still lose money. All the pools lose money because these are people with pre-existing medical conditions, some very expensive, and the premiums do not cover the costs. In most states the difference is made up by assessing health insurers, though some states use tax money or lottery income.

Wisconsin and Minnesota are considered two of the best high risk pools, in part because they have allowed premiums in the private sector to remain lower than they otherwise would have been; but pools in Louisiana, Oregon, Utah, Missouri and Montana also work well.

The successful states keep the premiums in the range of 125 percent to 150 percent of a standard premium. They make coverage available to people who have been denied coverage by an insurer, or to those whose premiums would be significantly higher than a standard premium. And successful states don’t put caps on how many people can participate in the pool or on how long they can participate.

By contrast, the high risk pools in Florida, California and Illinois are closed to new entrants because of funding problems. Addressing those issues could be part of the Republican “replace” proposal.

By working with the current state-based high risk pools, Republicans could abandon guaranteed issue while ensuring there is an adequate safety net for those with a pre-existing condition, which would help keep private health insurance pools large and more affordable.

If Republicans embrace guaranteed issue instead, they will also have to impose a coverage mandate, which every Republican denounces, or destroy the individual health insurance market, just as Democrats in those eight states did.

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“Free enterprise has done more to increase the standard of living of Americans than all the government programs combined.”

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I am speaking at the Investment U conference this week in St. Petersburg, Fla., and the focus is mainly on income-producing stocks and funds. We had a big panel discussion about whether dividend-paying stocks now are so popular that they are overvalued and whether interest rates will rise and cut off the bull market on Wall Street.

The Dow has been hitting new highs for the past week, and now the S&P 500 Index is about to hit a new high.

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“We don’t have an immediate crisis in terms of debt. In fact, for the next 10 years, it’s gonna’ be in a sustainable place.”

– President Barack Obama

“What, me worry?” is the apparently attitude of President Obama when it comes to the national debt and the deficit.

We currently have $17 trillion in debt, more than 100% of our gross domestic product (GDP), approaching World War II levels.

But the president says there’s nothing to worry about. Speaking with ABC News correspondent George Stephanopoulos, President Obama downplayed concerns of an impending financial catastrophe, claiming quite to the contrary that the country is on track to turn the economy around.

But there’s always danger when a nation has no backbone in fiscal responsibility. The problem is that interest rates are so low that financing the deficit and the national deficit is easy right now. That situation could change when interest rates rise sharply. Then everything will get out of control and the president will suddenly play a different tune.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, the deficit is expected to fall below $1 trillion this year, but will get worse after that, with a total of $7 trillion expected to be added to the national debt during the next decade. By then, the entitlement crisis will be full blown and we will be in real trouble.

Ben Franklin said it best: “Revenue is never sufficient without economy.”

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Unlock criteria Completing a game with Great White Shark

100% growth with Great White Shark

Max health 300 HP
Max size 25 meters
Max depth No limit

"The size of a house and razor sharp teeth... the most ferocious predator ever to exist is back!" - In game description.

Megalodon is the sixth standard shark to be unlocked in Hungry Shark Evolution. Of colossal proportions, the Megalodon is the largest legitimate shark in the game and the third largest shark in the game, with a mouth large enough to swallow a human whole; it has over-sized gills, and a large scar running down the right side of its snout down to its gills.

This shark is extremely powerful, able to eat almost all creatures and even basic Mines and boats. When fully leveled up, it is also extremely agile, being able to quickly ski across the lands and seamlessly wipe beaches clean of human life.

However, this monstrous creature has a few flaws. Its enormous build makes it difficult for the shark to travel across tunnels, and also renders it an easy target for various other smaller aggressive creatures such as Reef Sharks and Divers. Although it can devour huge amounts of meat at a very quick pace, its health drains equally fast.

There are only three creatures that can defeat the Megalodon; the Dunkleosteus, Mr. Snappy , and the Giant Crab.

Megalodon costs 50,000 coins OR 900 gems.

  • The Megalodon is the third most powerful playable creature after the Big Daddy and Mr. Snappy, being able to eat everything except Toxic Barrel, Death Mines, Mini Sub torpedoes, and beach balls. Megalodon's extremely high Bite stat allows it to eat many creatures in under a second. Sometimes, Megalodon eats so quickly that it doesn't even close its mouth; it just leaves it open and lets food fly into it.Megalodon shares the second highest health and boost stat with the Great White Shark, though both are bested by the Big Daddy and Mr Snappy. When a jet-pack is equipped, this makes it possible for all sharks to fly continuously if the boost is used in bursts. Combined with its amazing speed stat, Megalodon is able to reach the bottom of the ocean in seconds. It can also leap extremely high into the air, letting it eat Paragliders with ease.

Megalodon is a massive shark. It can eat paraglider without having to boost out of the water. It can just lift its head out of the water and this will be enough to reach the paraglider.Along with the Big Daddy and Mr Snappy, the Megalodon can eat the King of Summer and the Jetskiers without needing to jump on their backs.

Megalodon is great for earning gems, as it can jump high in the air, eating paragliders, Helicopters , and harpoon boat men with ease (which sometimes yield gems). Megalodon can also bite fishing boats in half, which also sometimes yields gems as well.

One of its weak points is it can get stuck easily, and it cannot easily avoid Mini Sub's mines.

Missions Edit

Name Objective Reward
Crowd Surfer Eat 100 beach bystanders 2,500 coins
Jelly Junkie Eat 100 jellyfish 3,500 coins
Mine Eater Eat 125 mines 3,000 coins
Paraglider Punish Eat 5 paragliders 2,750 coins
Harpoon Boat Bite Eat 5 harpoon boat men 2,750 coins
Flying Feast Eat 100 flying fish 2,750 coins
Boat Breaker Eat 12 fishing boats 2,500 coins
15 Sunken Objects Find 15 sunken objects 3,750 coins
Super Mission 6 Earn 5,000,000 points!!! 20,000 coins

Diet Edit

The Megalodon has the second broadest diet in Hungry Shark Evolution, as it can eat everything. Exceptions'''; Toxic Barrels, Enemy Big Daddies and Death Mines.

Pros and Cons Edit

Pros Edit

  • Unbelievable bite power
  • Large health capacity
  • Fast movement speed
  • Large boost capacity
  • Massive diet
  • Can perform special actions on enemies (e.g. destroying whole boats)
  • Can consume lots of creatures in a single bite
  • Can move on land just as fast as through water
  • Massive mission rewards
  • Long bite range

Cons Edit

  • Extremely rapid health drain
  • Extremely challenging missions
  • Immense cost to unlock and upgrade
  • Colossal size makes it get hit easily and get stuck between rocks
  • Prone to Mini Sub's torpedoes
  • Health drains faster over time

Trivia Edit

  • Its health drains extremely fast on land. Some players report that if the megalodon eats a lot, especially pink jellyfish, the health drain of your health will increase until you start a new game. This may be the reason why the health drain of the other sharks are slower than the Megalodon or more powerful sharks.
  • In a previous version of the game, when purchased, the Megalodon had all of its stats maxed out. This is no longer available.
  • The Robo Shark and the Megalodon are the only sharks who can get a x64 multiplier during a gold rush. Two sharks can get bigger multipliers than the two, and these sharks are Big Daddy (Dunkleosteus) (x80 multiplier), and Mr. Snappy (Mosasaurus) (x96 multiplier).
  • Megalodon was considered the most powerful shark in the game, but many people argued that the Robo Shark was more powerful. One such debate can be found in our forums, under the Fun and Games board. The new Big Daddy (Dunkleosteus) is more powerful than both of them, and the newer Mr. Snappy (Mosasaurus) is also more powerful than the two and even more powerful than Big Daddy.
  • The exact method of unlocking Megalodon is a cause of fiery debate amongst the Hungry Shark community. However, roughly, you must first reach the Hammerhead Shark at Level 3 to view the "Relic of Megalodon ", which is the first information you will find about the Megalodon's inclusion in the game. The relic will tell you that you must "experience the Great White Shark" to see Megalodon. Once you have unlocked and played as the Great White Shark for the first time, then the actual Megalodon will finally appear in store. To buy it with coins, you have to reach level 10 with GW.
  • It is more common to find Enemy Big Daddies as a Megalodon.
  • It has a lot of scars and its gills are oversized because according to Hungry shark's Facebook page, it was either resurrected with 'Twisted Science', or it fought a lot in its previous life.
  • Although the shark's description in the game says it reaches 25 meters long (83 feet), it is obviously much smaller in the game, being less than 50 feet; a real Megalodon would actually have been larger, although larger specimens almost certainly existed in the past; teeth discovered would indicate the existence of Megalodons that would have reached 67 feet long and a weight of 114 tons (114 thousand kilograms/228 thousand pounds).
  • It is extremely rare to find a Megalodon that is bigger than the maximum length it normally is, though it is possible and also works with stars and Penguins,
  • Megalodon (while not the largest creature in the game) is the largest and fastest standard shark in the game (as Big daddy and Mr. Snappy are technically not sharks and are just primitive marine creatures).

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  • Filling the assembly with compressed air, then slopping soapy water on it to see if bubbles reveal leaks.
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  • Pressurizing the sealed assembly and watching a gauge for pressure decay.

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Taxonomy: Tringa subruficollis Vieillot, 1819, Paraguay.
Genetically close to Calidris; also suggested to be intermediate between Calidris and Philomachus. Monotypic.

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Hi all

Brenton from South Australia here. My wife and I were charged with fish-sitting my eldest daughters two Male veil-tails about 2 months ago. They came in these silly little jars with massive crystals in the bottom. No heater, no filtration, and gold fish flakes.

We immediately went out and brought bigger accommodations and our first crown-tail. The move into the bigger home didn't go well for one VT. So I began to learn more. I joined the Australian chapter of the IBC. We brought a bigger barracks system with heating, etc and another VT. Our daughter's last fella wasn't enjoying the move so I isolated him and ordered in a new medicine cabinet full of remedies - unfortunately he passed away two days into treatment.

My two new Betta's however flourished. I understand they are LFS rescues now, and even some of the deficiencies in them through my research. I wanted to know more and raise even better fish. The bug had well and truly inserted its teeth.

I now have four tanks. A fifth is planned as is a new barracks system. I'm even designing sumps. I've just ordered my first imported breeding pair of green/turquoise CT's. I'm about to commence live feed production. My wife is wondering how much of the house I'm going to take over...

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Wonderful Brenton and welcome to the IBC you trully joined with full force that's great! :)
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It becomes a case of how little of the house you really need to live in.

And welcome. Lots more Aussies here abouts these days.
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Glad you are here and yeah there are a lot of Ausies and even more on the way!

Australia is going to bustling with IBC activity very soon.
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Welcome to the IBC Brenton!

Sounds like your off a great start mate!!

The bug had well and truly inserted its teeth.

Looking forward to hearing from you soon and good luck with all your spawns.
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The Time is right: join me for a ride to Parliament to demand safer cycling for all

In just 13 short days The Times cycle safety campaign has ignited an incredible debate here in the UK; after a fellow reporter was crushed by a lorry on her way to work the Times team set to work on creating what must be the fastest growing cycle safety campaign the UK has ever seen.  Some 25,000 people have signed up to the campaign, with thousands calling directly on their MPs to act.

The MP for Cambridge and Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Bicycle Group, Julian Huppert, has secured a 3 hour cycle safe debate in Westminster on Thursday February 23rd.  So far as I can tell this will be the most significant debate for 16 years on what we should and could be doing to make cycling safe enough to be attractive to many more people.

As writer and editor Carlton Reid points out in his article on there hasn't been this much political interest in cycling since 1996 when New Labour were seriously courting power for the first time.  Labour were full of platitudes for cycling, as were the Conservatives.  Politicians were clamouring to be seen as pro-bike and a friend of the cyclist, but later when it came to the crunch and putting money where their mouths were, all those promises and platitudes were only so much hot air.  Just enough money was found to paint some terrifying and frankly dangerous cycle lanes and install the occasional bike rack, whilst billions were squandered on widening the M25 (now a comfortable 12 lanes wide in places, vroom vroom!)

Cycling carried on being the preserve of the brave and the few, but in recent years something - certainly here in London - has changed.  For various reasons, the number of people using a bicycle has started to grow.  Now the bike lanes are no longer just the reserve of the couriers and the road racing teams.  Suddenly there are gents on Bromptons pedalling from Waterloo to magic circle City firms.  Chief Execs skittle to boardrooms on Boris Bikes.  Yummy Mummys are ditching their 4x4s and striking out on Christiana cargo bikes instead.  People from all walks of life, from every background, are taking to their bikes.  Many many more would like to do so, if only conditions felt safer for them.

With their cycle safety campaign The Times have caught the zeitgeist fairly and squarely; they know that most people are sick to death of paying through the nose for fuel or exorbitant rail fares and would love to have more travel opportunities if only the terrifying, relentless death toll of cyclists wasn't so aspiration-crushingly high.  More than 10 cyclists have already died on the UK's roads in the first 2 months of this year.  In London alone, 16 people set out on their bikes in 2011 and never made it to their destinations.  As yellow jersey champion and Olympic Gold medal winning cyclist Chris Boardman explains in The Times; "I don’t want people to see cycling as a dangerous mode of transport. It isn’t, but it could be a lot safer, and acting to make it so right now, while it has almost fashion status, will see numbers explode. We are at a tipping point, a crossroads, a moment where we could easily become the next Amsterdam, reducing pollution and congestion as well as improving health and quality of life. ...2012 is the moment to wholeheartedly capitalise on this opportunity.. ...Wouldn’t it be great if by the time of the Rio Olympics in 2016, the school traffic I once tried to avoid was made of young bike riders and their parents?"  I couldn't agree more.  Britain's transport budget is by no means lean, so I'm sure it could afford a percent or two for cycling.  When it comes to building safe cycle facilities we might have to lose a parking space or two here and there, but who in their right mind would argue against that when the trade off is giving our children and families a passport to freedom and independence?

How the Dutch got their cycle paths - all the inspiration you'll ever need when it comes to cycle campaigning!

The Times campaign has very noble aims outlined in its 8 point manifesto; reducing road danger by fitting dangerous lorries with cheap electronic sensors, identifying and making safer Britain's most dangerous junctions, a 20mph default speed limit for residential streets, and allocating at least 2% of the transport budget to building world class architecture.

But unlike in 1996 when there was last a Parliamentary debate about what we should do for cycling, word of mouth is now global, whilst best practise from around the world is now hyper-local.  Because of the internet, everyday and ordinary cyclists can see for themselves how we should be looking to the Dutch and the Danes to design our city streets.  Examples of superb, well-designed, safe and continuous cycling infrastructure are available at just the click of a button.  We know that we don't need any more botch solutions like shared use paths, or cheap fixes like painted lanes that lead us only in to danger.  I believe there is a genuine, palpable sense of people - not just cycle "campaigners" - but everyday and ordinary people wanting here what is second nature just on the other side of the North Sea; sustained investment in cycling, safe cycling and mass cycling for all.

Cycling to be debated in Parliament - it is time to take our demands direct to our MP's door

Some of our elected politicians have a somewhat tabloid view of what constitutes a "cyclist" and their contribution to any debate about increasing safety for cyclists will no doubt focus on more helmets, more high vis, more training, more sticks and no carrots.  All of the things that cycling exactly doesn't need right now.  The time has come not just for us to have a debate about our cycling safety, but for people who want safer, more equitable, fairer and more enjoyable cities to own it for themselves.  We need action, not just platitudes and soothing words from the Government.  The terrifying death rate of cyclists in the UK can no longer be politely ignored; neither can the evident hunger of so many people who would cycle more if only conditions on the most terrifying stretches of road were better and made us feel subjectively as well as statistically safe.

How Parliament Square could be, if there wasn't such paucity of imagination about how we should be designing our cities.

I'm inviting you all to join me, Danny Williams from Cyclists in the City and indeed our friends at the London Cycling Campaign, for a ride to Parliament to highlight Julian Huppert's cycling debate.  All too often protests are about what the Government should not do.  Just last week, the London Cycling Campaign launched their exciting new Love London, Go Dutch campaign; one of their images shows what Parliament Square would look like if it was re-designed to Dutch design principals - only a fool could argue against how much better it would be for everyone, but most especially for whole families who might need to walk or cycle there.  Our ride the night before the debate will not be about telling the Government not to do something, but showing them that we have the answers, it is time they were acted on and that they should come and get them!  If they too grab the zeitgeist and put their money where their mouth is, cycling in Britain could really be on to something this time.  At present, Parliament Square - the very seat of democracy in the United Kingdom - is a traffic choked, stinking, congested, roaring lunatic roundabout stuffed with traffic going nowhere fast.  There are countless junctions just like it all over the country which actively limit people's ability to feel they can be safe riding a bike.  With The Times and their campaign, and the MPs with their debate, we just need to push the pressure high enough to ensure that change comes.
I hope you will join me.

The Ride:

Gather for our Cycle Safe Ride to Parliament at the bottom of Duke of York steps at 6.15PM for a 6.30PM departure on Wednesday 22nd February.  The short continuous ride route will take in Trafalgar Square, Whitehall, Parliament Square, Lambeth Bridge, Westminster Bridge and Bird Cage Walk before returning to the Duke of York steps.   A number of the media have said they will be there, so do come in your finest attire and bring your family and friends with you.  The ride will be lawful, respectful, prompt and fully marshaled - if you'd like to volunteer as a marshal get in touch via the Contact Me page.

Tell Your MP:

Julian Huppert's Early Day Motion will frame a 3 hour debate on cycling on Thursday 23rd February.  I'm writing to my MP to tell them to sign and attend using WriteToThem - why don't you too?

Dear Member,

I have written to you previously about The Times cycle safety campaign which has been growing from strength to strength - some 25,000 people have now signed up to the campaign.  The time for safe cycling for all here in the UK is now.

Member for Cambridge Julien Huppert has tabled an EDM [EDM 2689] calling for cities fit for safer cycling which I would encourage you strongly to support.  There will be a debate on the issue in Westminster Hall on the 23rd February which I would urge you to attend.

Kind regards,

Mark Ames

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Anonymous said...

great idea mark. i want my children to be able to ride independently - we live near elephant and castle. i can train them and they can keep their wits about them but anyone with half a brain can see it is about more than *just* mirrors and training. see you there!

Vocus Dwabe said...

Well done, Mark, and let's hope there's a good turn-out of us utility cyclists in addition to the usual enthusiasts: ordinary clothes and no mindless ugly violence or confrontations with the police.

I've just trailed it on the "Guardian" cycling blog, but I'm far from confident there will be much response from that particular constituency: there's a distinct air of miff that it was the Times that got this going and not them.

Anyway, looking forward to seeing you next Wednesday.

ibikelondon said...

Thanks Vocus! All types of cyclists are welcome as we all share common issues on the road, but absolutely I think the focus of our message is about making cycling accessible and safe for all - so not just more helmets and high vis but actually creating conditions that would allow your Mum or your Nan to cycle. As such it will be very much a family spirited ride with no run ins with the Police (who we are liaising with about the ride) with our great marshals keeping us all together and absolutely no violence!

Thanks for flagging it to the bike blog - will be interesting to see if they pick it up.

Jono said...

Great Post Mark,

Very upset I cant come down with my family, but will encourage some other Kenyons to head down. Best of luck with it, and I will be cheering from Italy!

Anonymous said...

Please choose your words carefully (like Chris Boardman did in his quote). To talk of the "terrifying death rate" in the same sentance as "statistically safe" is just incoherent. Cycling is 'safe', but could be made appreciably safer, and more enjoyable and attractive to people who don't currently cycle, by improved behaviours and infrastructure. Let's please have a sensible debate based on facts rather than emotive language.

ibikelondon said...

Nick, you've misunderstood me. I think the death rate *is* terrifying. Teriffying in the sense that it is a shock that so many people are being killed on the roads every year (and it *is* a lot - 16 in London last year, 0 in Paris) and terrifying in the sense that it is frightening people off from riding bikes. When I talk about statistical safety I mean that in the sense of there being two types of safety: statistical and subjective. One is about actually being safe (as in, statistically unlikely to be hurt or killed) and then there is subjectively safe (as in, feel like you are unlikely to be hurt or killed). Surely it is undoubtable that Britain must do more to improve both?

Beth A said...

Just as a response to Vocus Dwabe. Why ever would there be any 'mindless ugly violence or confrontations with the police'?

..and what is a 'utility cyclist'?

In any event, glad you're coming, sure we can send a real message with the numbers I'm sure will be there.


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To have a threesome, two girls and a guy. First heard on How I Met Your Mother.
Ted is fated to ride the tricycle and gain the belt.
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A threesome, sexual in nature or otherwise.
"Where's Josh?"
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to be a third (or fifth, or seventh...) wheel in a group, acting as a third wheel.
"Hey, you want to hang out?"
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Pedal tricycles can either be upright much like a common bicycle or can be recumbent. Most upright tricycles tend to have have two wheels at the back (frog) where as the recumbent variety more commonly have two wheels at the front (tadpole).
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A boygirl/ladyman etc. and has a variation between two penises, two vaginas, or one penis and a vagina.
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I Am Gollum

Among the questionable creative decisions made by Peter "Dead Alive" Jackson in the latest Lord of the Rings installment was the change in the origin of Gollum's onomatopoeic name from a swallow to a cough, a cough which, while hacking in nature, sounds suspiciously like phlegmy throat clearing as opposed to any debilitating malady that might be brought about by insane devotion to a magic Ring. As a chronic throat clearer myself, and someone who already receives his fair share of ribbing therefor, I'm forced to take umbrage. And I'll take all the umbrage I want, thank you.

As for the movie itself, movie reviews 'round these parts are taken care of in another place, and I'm not about to step on anybody's toes by offering my own meager analysis. Instead, I'll just tell you what I thought of a few of the actors.

Karl Urban as Eomer: HOT.
Brad Dourif as Wormtongue: Bad ASS.
Miranda Otto as Eowyn: Also hot, but in a cute way.
Liv Tyler as Arwen: Still thoroughly unengaging.
John Rhys-Davies as Gimli: Hey! Isn't it funny how he's shorter than everyone else? He's a dwarf, get it? Har har! Dwarves are small!
David Wenham as Faramir: Also hot, also cute, but in a Viking way.

Until next year, then.

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This ambushed me on my way out of the shower just now:

She wears real tight dresses
And high-heeled shoes
And if you've got cash
She'll have sex with you
Oh, she'll take you to bed
And she'll charge you for head
She's a call girl after all

She's a call girl after all
She's a call girl after all
She's a call girl after all
And she's worth... the... price...

Oh, you won't find her
In the back of a car
'Cause she hangs around
In the hotel bar
She's a classier ho'
And she rakes in the dough
She's a call girl after all

She's a call girl after all
She's a call girl after all
She's a call girl after all
And her name... is... [(preferably single-syllable) name of girl in room]

Wednesday, indeed!

On the Subject of December 16th

(1) During my Criminal final today I was forced to abstain from making a solid gold pun, and accordingly I'm going to be cranky and sullen for approximately 35 hours. The pun was "Just as there was no money in the pocket, there was no meth in the madness." No further explanation will be provided.

(2) For some reason every now and then I'll check my bank balance online, and it'll be about $20 short. I'll click the link to the detailed statement, and it will be missing a number of entries since I tend to do a lot of check-card business after bank hours, and it only updates once a day at 7:00 a.m. The following morning, without fail, the $20 is always back. I'm imagining some night clerk at B of A headquarters "borrowing" $20 from my account just in case he needs a little extra cash over the weekend, and then returning it on Monday. I'd like to complain about whatever is going wrong to the bank, but how on earth do I even approach this?

Me: Uh, hi. [Explains problem.]
Customer Service: Well if it always comes back, what are you complaining about?
Me: Well, where's it going? Why is it doing that?
Customer service: ...
Me: It's very disconcerting, that's all!

(3) Apparently if I walk on the grass instead of the sidewalk while traveling between the laundry room and my apartment, Mimi, the friendly cat who lives behind me, won't zig zag in front of me like she usually does. She's a rescued stray who lives outside but apparently she's too dainty to walk on the grass.

(3) What the hell ever happened to Phil Tanofsky, that bastard Jew-fro Texan?

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The flush handle of the handicapped urinal in the second floor mens room of the UCLA law library is the funnest thing under God's Green Sky. It's SO big. I like to press it on the very tip, and watch as the extended lever arm allows me to apply the appropriate flushing torque with minimal effort. In my mind I envision the R vector crossing with the F vector and creating a great and mighty Tau, and I become wistful for the days when the only laws I needed to know where the laws of Physics, and the laws against statutory rape.

It's shiny and metal and flat. And when it hits home, a thoroughly satisfying swoosh of industrial-strength water pressure destroys the evidence. It really is, my friends, a thing of utmost beauty.

For some reason parties got a lot cooler after I left the Bay Area. Or maybe I just wasn't being invited to the cool parties while I lived there.

Opposite Day

Happy Friday the 13th, everybody.

When I began reading this story about the latest cross-burning battle brewing in the Supreme Court, my first thought was, "You know, I'll bet there's a Black lawyer representing the KKK guys." Sure enough, about halfway down the page:

The ACLU agreed to represent Black, even hiring David Baugh, a prominent African American lawyer, who argued Black's his right to free speech was violated, however disturbing the speech.

I was reminded of a movie we watched in high school about a neo-nazi march in a small town in Illinois, where the lawyer representing the neo-nazis was Jewish. Apparently based on a true story. While discussing this with a few of my classmates someone mentioned that a very lucrative field for female attorneys is the defense of rape defendants. I'm usually suspicious of things I hear in the air like this, but I don't doubt that it's true to some extent. Furthermore, I'm told by one of my professors that when Ruth Bader Ginsburg brought her first sexual discrimination cases in her ACLU days, her clients were almost exclusively men.

Now I'm wondering how extensively this idea can be pushed. Should they find lawyers who are also cattle ranch owners to defend ELF and PETA activists? How would the communicate this to the jury? Would the judge allow the lawyer to eat a fat steak drowned in butter at the defense table?

The task remains for me to find out what I'm the opposite of, and make a career out of defending them. How about this:

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You sugar-hating freak.

Ignorantia Legis Neminem Excusat

And another thing. If people are going to take it upon themselves to draft criminal statutes related to sexual offenses, they accomplish NOTHING by being shy about what they're talking about. To wit:

Model Penal Code Section 213.0(2): "Sexual intercourse" includes intercourse per os or per anum, with some penetration however slight; emission is not required.

More Horrendous Jokes

Yesterday the Torts final happened. You know that part in The Princess Bride when the guy is in the Pit of Despair and he has a year of his life sucked away? That's how I felt afterwards. But then, there was beer.

I don't know what it is about tort law that brings out the second-grade comedian in me, but regardless:

What do you call the ghost of a potato?
A spectater.

What do you call a tyrannical potato ruler?
A dictater.

What do you call an introspective potato that is made up of many smaller potatoes?
A meta-tater.

What do you call a potato that copies you?
An imitater.

What do you call a potato that's a very close friend but is also threatening?
An intimate-tater.

What do you call a German potato that kills people?
A taeter.

I realize this is just the same punchline over and over again, but after growing up on "hare/hair" jokes I think I'm operating under diminished capacity.

Dirty, Dirty Revenge

This week's hurriedly drawn smut-fest continues the theme of creative yet impractical revenge plots that I began last week. I'd like to eventually develop the ability to design schemes of retribution that don't necessarily involve billions of dollars or science fiction, but for now it seems that my enemies are safe as long as I don't get hit by a radioactive meteor or anything of that sort.

Also, as I said, this week's strip is hurriedly drawn. Sadly, this isn't reflected in the actual artwork since it's on par with previous efforts on which I spent considerably more time. There are, however, two things I would have changed had I started with pencil instead of pen. First, the picture of Kam's head projecting the naked Ted would have been replaced by a bald version, it being the future and all. Secondly, I would have inserted the word "legal" before "career" in the third panel, to forestall the possible misreading that Kam means to ruin Ted's adult film career by making a movie in which Ted has a small wang.

What do you want from me, people? I've been studying the economic fucking theory of torts all day.

Yet Another Thing Starbucks Has Taken From Us

This graphic accompanied an article in The Daily Bruin yesterday about how people don't like taking finals. Okay, now what's interesting about it? What might an overly sensitive freak like me find objectionable? I'll give you a few seconds to figure it out. (Hint: It's not the fact that the artist's name is "Wang.")

Give up? Okay, check out the way they visualize coffee. It used to be that coffee would be symbolized by a coffee mug, with or without steam. But now, instead, we have a paper cup with a plastic lid and the implied logo of a trendy coffee shop. So in addition to rubbing out unique local flavor across the continent, Starbucks has gone ahead erased the Great American Coffee Mug from popular culture.

And Michel Savage gently weeps.

Four Guys Who Are Cooler Than I Am

I went to my first Hollywood club last night to see Demon Bros. play some music at me. The lead guitarist is Mike from my class, who incidentally is only the second most punk rock person at UCLA Law. The name of the club was A.D., located just barely on the ghetto side of Hollywood (just a few blocks past where they stop lining the streets with big glowing stars), and getting there reinforced my theory that to get anywhere in the Los Angeles area from my apartment I just head down Santa Monica Boulevard for nine miles and turn right.

The band was cool. Much rocking was done. My latent purism forced me to scoff somewhat at their use of backup recordings, but since they're going for kind of a dance-metal sound that necessary involves unnatural noises, I made allowances (the standard response given by Sourdough Gunn, for example, when people complain about Nine Inch Nails' drum machines and backup tapes, is "Do you want to watch him sit there and program a computer on stage?"). Anyway, the highlight of the set was a really cool cover of "Strange Love" which, enjoyable as it was, really shouldn't be their first single if they hit the radio lest they suffer the fate of Orgy, Frente, and Alien Ant Farm.

Other high points of the evening were nearly making Jedi cry by asking him about the earlier version of "James K. Polk" (he didn't know about it), subsequently getting beaten by Jedi at arm wrestling, and learning from Steve that there was never any interesting Presidential hair.

I Am A Horrible Human Being

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How many Supreme Court Justices does it take to change a lightbulb?
Six. One to turn it, and five to overturn it.

What did the Supreme Court Justice say when his friend asked him for a mint but he didn't want to give him one?
"Cert denied."

What do you call it when twelve women of various ethnic backgrounds become lesbians?
Diversity jury's dick shun.

What do you call a sarcastic lawyer's second lawsuit against the same person?
A witty re-tort.

What kind of cheese do judges put in their lasanga?
Res juricotta.

What do you call someone who used to be your mother's sister?
Your ex ante.

Okay, after finishing off the last of the non-cherry donuts I'm ready to come on get happy.

I've spent a great deal of time this past year thinking up ways to exact revenge on the schools that rejected me in the Spring. I'm not talking about rats or stink bombs or fountains full of sewage here, I'm talking about undermining the academic and professional reputations of these schools. I am, basically, talking about the U.S. Fucking News and their intolerable rankings.

Unfortunately most of my plans have entailed me having a great deal of money and a law school of my own. All I could think to do was somehow attract professors away from the top schools, thereby weakening the respective academic strengths and reputations of the schools. Needless to say this plan didn't afford me much pleasure as I stared helplessly at the darkened ceiling every night fantasizing about admissions officers curled up and crying in their offices.

But all that changed today. With the new scandal at Boalt Hall, I realized that I've been approaching it from the exact wrong angle. Why attract professors away from law schools when I can push them out from the inside? All I need is a small army of attractive women to gain admission into high-end law schools, engage in brief, steamy affairs with professors, and then blackmail them into resigning in disgrace! Disgrace!

For what, indeed, is a Dean but a professor with a nicer suit? No one will be immune to the charms of my sexual army. I will employ agents of all shapes, sizes, and races. I will have thin women, heavy women, and medium women. White women, Black women, and China women. Oh, and gays! I'll have gays, too! No one will be safe!

And it'll pay for itself! A small, rotating band of sexual predatees will hit one school at a time, and who do you think will represent them in their sexual harassment suits? Why, a graduate from a school with a 92% bar passage rate, that's who! The money from the settlements from one school will fund the downfall of the next! Genius! Genius, I say!

Think of it. Just think of it! Dozens of law schools being utter destroyed just because a single guy bubbled in the wrong letter on his LSAT four or five too many times! Oh, the bitterness! Oh, the pettiness! Oh... Oh, the POWER!!!

Mwa ha ha. Mwa ha ha ha ha ha. MWA HA. MWA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'll Show You the Power... of Anger!

So this happened.

This kind of shit really, really, really pisses me off. In fact, there's not a single thing about it I don't hate. Let's go point by point.

I certainly don't consider myself to be a person governed by traditional morality, but even I get really angry when I hear about professors banging students. I'm not going to get on some high horse here, I'm just saying that, as inappropriate consensual sex acts between adults go, professor-student ranks pretty high on the list. If anyone out there is suffering from the delusion that the "single consensual encounter" between Dean Dwyer and the unnamed student was anything more than the indulgement of a pathetic power fantasy (on both sides), I'll point out that true love can wait until after graduation. So, it would seem, can sexual harassment reports (see below).

But really, it's the hearing about it that I mind more than the banging. The Daily Californian, shining bastion of journalistic incompetence, got something out of this that makes every newspaper editor drool: A banner headline with the word "sexual" in it. I'm increasingly glad that Berkeley continues to use its status as Home of the Free Speech Movement to fill its deplorable newspaper with cheap, non-substantive sex while student publications who push the limits of free speech in courageous, insightful ways are consistently swatted down by campus politicians.

And then there's our sainted victim, who was so deeply violated by the Big Bad Dean's sexual predation that she went right out and filed a report against him. Two years later.

That said, I'm not asking for much sympathy for Mr. Dwyer himself, who knew exactly what the fuck he was getting into, knew that to keep your job after getting head under your desk you have to be an extremely popular world leader, and should have kept it the fuck in his pants. But, to be fair, you can tell he's been deeply affected by this and has learned his lesson:

"I acknowledge that this reflected a serious error in judgment on my part and was inappropriate," Dwyer wrote in an internal memo to the Boalt Hall community. "I believe I can no longer effectively lead the school."

Accordingly, following his immature, inexcusable abuse of power, he promptly resigned from his position as head of one of the nation's leading law schools. Two years later.

I was going to turn this around into a light-hearted revenge plot against schools that rejected me, but after writing all of this I'm too depressed. Maybe a little later.

Worst Lawyer in the History of the Future

Our futuristic adventure this week begins with a reflection on the fact that I can't do something as simple as take a field trip to federal court without almost being permanently relieved of my belt. But that's not what this week's strip is really about.

It's difficult for me to begin discussing my tragic encounter with cherry flavored donuts without getting emotional. I feel like I've been violated on a very personal, very fundamental level. Even in our mid-twenties, as we outgrow religion, come to terms with the humanity of our parents, and watch our childhood dreams collapse into dreary day jobs, there remain a few unassailable truths to which we can still cling. And for me, one of these truths has always been that donuts taste good. Accordingly, last week when I found that I had unwittingly purchased a box of cherry flavored donuts, I was nearly crushed under the weight of human existence once and for all.

Now let me just make it absolutely clear what we're dealing with here. These weren't cherry frosted donuts, or cherry filled donuts. No. The cherry flavoring was baked into the very cake of the donuts themselves. Imagine biting into what you expect to be a delicious chocolate-coated fluffy cloud of goodness and suddenly finding yourself with a mouth full of pink cake and chunks of crystallized cherry flavoring. So wrong.

The sheer profanity of cherry flavored donuts was further evidenced by the fact that I literally couldn't give these things away at school the following day. This is how it went down.

Me: Care for a donut?
Classmate: Ooh! Donuts!
Me: They're cherry flavored, though.
Classmate: Cherry flavored? That sounds disgusting.
Me: And how.
Classmate: Mmm... No thanks. I think I'll just go chew on this shoe leather over here.

I've written a letter to Ralphs Grocery Company detailing my disappointment with their culinary heresy and urging them to repent before they're damned for good. In the meantime, I'll be checking food labels for cherry flavoring as well as peanuts.

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