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Lifting a satirical leg on popular culture

Persons in the Ether

Question of the Week

Salad dressing on the side or on the top?

MB

Marlowe Brint, artisnal jewelry designer

Reportedly outside Santa Fe, NM

On the side, obviously. A salad should retain the illusion of free will until the very last moment. Once dressed, it has chosen a direction and can never go back.

EV

Evelyn Voss, lobster fisher person

May once have lived in Bangor, ME

I prefer it on top, but only in a thin ceremonial line, as priests once applied oils to objects they feared and respected. A salad without dressing is just yard work in a bowl.

CK

Clyde Ketter, attack dog trainer

Unverified, but emphatically from Akron, OH

Neither. The correct approach is to keep the dressing nearby in a separate vessel and let the salad absorb its presence psychologically. That is how my father did it, and his lettuce feared him.

Adverse Effects

The following lines may induce brief clarity, misplaced certainty, and the sense that something has already been decided without your approval ...

There is a moment, just before sleep,
when the mind loosens its tie
and admits what it spent all day denying.

Read It All

There is a moment, just before sleep,
when the mind loosens its tie
and admits what it spent all day denying.

You remember the thing you said—
not the words,
but the angle of them,
how they leaned slightly wrong
and stayed there.

A life is not ruined in grand gestures.
It goes soft at the edges first.
Corners round off. Standards blur.
You start calling things “fine”
that would have once kept you awake.

Which is the problem.

Because now you do sleep.

Beautifully. Efficiently.
Like someone who has made a series of
very small, very reasonable surrenders
and arranged them into a pillow.

Police Searching for Stolen Breast Implants

16 years Chip Hilton

an image

PENNSAUKEN, N.J. – Police are searching for a pair of 38-D breast implants obtained under false pretenses earlier this month. The breasts were lifted from the Route 70 Center for Plastic Surgery by a thirty-year-old, red-headed woman who used a bogus ID to pay the first of three, easy $4,000 installments for body and fender work that included the missing breast implants, liposuction, and mustache removal.

The dispatcher at the Route 70 Center for Plastic Surgery became suspicious earlier this week after the perpetrator had failed to keep a scheduled appointment for a routine follow-up visit and complimentary bikini wax. When the dispatcher tried to contact the woman, the scam was discovered.

A Pennsauken police department spokesperson said the woman faces charges of commercial burglary, grand theft, identity theft, and failure to keep a doctor’s appointment without giving twenty-four hours’ notice. The department plans to “paper the tri-state area” with posters of the stolen hooters.

Defending this unusual measure, the spokesperson said, “There’s no point in posting her photo because she didn’t use her real name.”

Anyone who sees a pair of suspicious-looking breasts is cautioned not to approach them, the spokesperson said. “Don’t try to be a hero. Just call 1-800-BIG-ONES, and we’ll handle things from there.”

The woman, who stand 5’3″ and weighs 110 pounds, is believed to be in the company of a man wanted for using a false ID to obtain a penis enlargement.

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The preceding is satire. Straight up, Skippy. No warranties are expressed or implied. For life advice, try a professional. For investment tips, try a dart board. For salvation, the gentleman in the robe has been handling that portfolio for 2,000 years.

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