"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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"Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.“
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