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This is surely one of the best 2 or 34 Alligator News editions ever (And I won't stop calling it Shirley).

I'm not surprised that SI is demonstrating the Second Law of Thermodynamics. What was some of the best sports journalism up to the early seventies managed to go progressively into the radical chic of the times. Before Colin Koepernick was, Armen Katayen was, sort of.

I will hazard only one minor addendum to your first-rate chicken history. I think the proper expression on its lessons is this:

Those who do not know why the chicken crossed the road are destined to repat it.

Wind be in your sails!

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Sports figures, 2nd law of thermo, and chicken jokes. You are one seriously well-rounded writer, Shirley!

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In item number 5, the Europeans didn’t lift the tariff on German trucks because they didn’t initiate it. The US didn’t remove the truck tariff when the Frogs lifted the chicken tariff. 🙂

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Right, of course, Don. I knew that if I hung that out there I could get at the real truth. Because that's what we do here.

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