"Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence."
-Erma Bombeck
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"Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.“
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