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			<title><![CDATA[Never take potentially fatal advice from a greeting card]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I saw a greeting card at a drugstore tonight that said, &quot;Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.&quot;

Actually, you won't be remotely close to any stars, and if you miss, you'll probably fall back to Earth and fry like a Frito on re-entry. And even if you reach]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:11:11</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Forget the dragons, just get me a vacuum cleaner]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A P.R. company from California just sent me a video game called Dragon Age that was packaged in a cardboard box full of straw.

I now have straw all over my pants and the carpet beneath my desk.

I am thinking this is not the best marketing decision the P.R. company ever made.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:49:37</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[I don't bet on football -- which was a good thing Sunday]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I stopped betting on football back when I lived in Las Vegas -- not because I was losing, oddly enough, but because of two occasions when I did well.


I never bet much, mind you. And in one of the above-mentioned instances, I didn't bet at all.


The Castaways, later bulldozed to make way]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:59:24</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[50 more don't-you-dares for food servers. You guys done with that?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I don't know that I'd want to work for this guy, but I wouldn't mind trying his restaurant, assuming he can find enough scrupulously correct staffers to get it open.

Last week I linked to 50 tips for servers and other employees. Here are the next 50.

I particularly like No. 65, &quot;Always]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:48:21</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dump truck escapes 4th-floor window]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Some people are appalled by this and some are amused. But however you feel about a bunch of guys shoving a dump truck out a window at the old Packard plant in Detroit, it's hard to ignore.


Along with its story, the Wall Street Journal has thoughtfully provided video.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:10:40</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[50 don't-you-dares for restaurant staffers]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Herewith is a link to a list of 50 things restaurant staffers should never do, as provided to the New York Times by a guy named Bruce who's getting ready to open a seafood joint.


I used &quot;herewith&quot; because he did, as the very first word of the piece. I used &quot;joint&quot; because]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:01:27</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Facebook Status Update of the Week]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[From my friend Jimmy Doom, noted actor-writer-poet and former lead singer of the Almighty Lumberjacks of Death:

&quot;Today is the first day of the rest of your life and about two weeks after I got tired of listening to you bitch about it.&quot;]]></description>
			<author>(Neal Rubin)</author>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:33:06</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[About those chickens ...]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I mentioned Kauai's wild chickens in this morning's column about why people drive what they drive, and figured I should probably elaborate here.

The first chickens were brought to Kauai for the same reason chickens get brought anywhere: They're tasty.

Then, the story goes, Filipino immigrants]]></description>
			<author>(Neal Rubin)</author>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:55:20</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[My lunch with Soupy Sales, a good and funny man]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A decade or so ago, a magazine asked me to do stand-up comedy and then write about it.


Okay, I said. So I started putting together some material, writing jokes and jotting down observations and condensing a few of the stories that always knock 'em dead at parties, and before long I had quite a]]></description>
			<author>(Neal Rubin)</author>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:19:55</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Nobel Peace Prize injustice? How 'bout the Cy Young?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I was puzzled to hear that President Barack Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday, but hardly -- as so many others found themselves yesterday -- upset.

Upset I save for truly important miscarriages of justice, like Fernando Valenzuela of the L.A. Dodgers winning the National League Cy]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:01:21</pubDate>
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