Emerald Nuts

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Scientists have found that stress makes you forget. That certainly explains a lot. Just today, I read that scientists have found that stress makes you forget. That certainly explains a lot.

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Marketers are pitching deodorant to 10-year-old boys. Maybe it makes sense to mask the pungent whiff of playground, but I ask you, what will they be pitching next?: MacIntosh-B'Gosh? Viagraham crackers? Just for Men for Boys?

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Have you heard of a new snack called "Emerald Nuts?" Their ads better be clever, or else people will think it's the new name for The Green Party.

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Those of you who have been with me since Blog #1 know that I said I wouldn't do any political humor. But can you blame me? Emerald Nuts. I mean, come on. It's a name begging for a joke. Here's a meme: write your own!

Stay tuned this weekend for a Chapter One excerpt from my unread (but not unreadable) manuscript, "Blown Job: an unemployment odyssey." See the excerpt from the Introduction below.