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Dec 13, ’12:  It’s December boys & girls and you know what THAT means!  It’s “Suspend a bunch of bad boys Month” in BCS World.  ..... What socio-cultural “problem” will the NFL adopt as it’s very own next week? ..... and BobLee discusses the Whose Ox Rule for websites  .......
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Dec 12, ’12:  Well, well.  Look what crawled out of the graveyard of a 1950s Hit Parade – Harry “Banana Boat” Belafonte.   Ol’ Harry has been off the charts (and off his rocker) for decades apparently pickling himself in some really heavy-duty Marxist vinegar. This constipated old commie coot is coming to Winston-Salem on January 22 to stir up the students of Wake Forest and Winston-Salem State as part of their 2013 MLK Celebration. 

“Hell, He’s Nutz” you say.  Yep, crazy as an outhouse mouse.  “STOP HIM” you might say.  Nope; you really don’t wanna do that. ......
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Dec 10, ’12:  Of the bevy of incredibly insightful comments I’ve made here in 12+ years perhaps none has proven more “dead solid perfect” than – “a (college) football team is only as strong as its 3rd string offensive line”.  I knew that was insightful.  The incredible part has come over time.  As Doeren, Fedora et al attempt to lead their programs to BCS glory, it will depend on those unknown “big-uns” in the trenches.
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   Dec 8, ’12:  Buy green bananas IF you believe outgoing N&O Asst Op/Ed Editor Allen Torrey in his “Hit & Run” epistle on 12/08.  He boldly predicts that America Will Survive.... because it has so far.   YOWSA!   Move over Nostradamus and pass the biscuits ......
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Dec 6, ’12:  In 1897, when little Virginia O’Hanlon wanted to know “is there a Santa Claus?” her daddy told her “If you see it in The (New York) Sun it’s so.”   Darn good thing the O’Hanlons didn’t read The News & Observer circa 2012.  

Larry Fedora never interviewed with or considered Tennessee. .....
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Dec 1, ’12:  Frau Yow went ahunting up in DeKalb, Illinois and bagged herself a Dave Dornan.... Dan Dorane.... Doug Doherty.... Dick Dohicky....  It’s Dave Doeren.  And he’s from Western Iowa.... Middle Indiana..... Central Southern Ohio – It’s Northern Illinois...... A good solid choice with plenty of upside to please real adult Wuffs.... and enough question marks to provide yadda yadda fodder for non-Wuffs.
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   Nov 30, ’12:   The nation’s most unpopular Governor-ette – Bev “Lil’ Dumplin” Perdue will be booted out of office on her lil’ dumplin keister in just over a month.  But not before she can sabotage as much as possible.  Going out with the same “class” she showed while in office.   A “real piece o’ work” that Lil’ Dumplin.
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11/29/12:  Hellzapoppin’ in ACCWorld..... Frau Yow is flitting about with untold wads of cash..... Little Johnny is welcoming Papa John’s Folks..... ECU finds a home, sortof.....
   I must make a correction.  I said in my last column that NOTHING can match “an NC State coach search” for pure slapstick comedy hijinks.  Not so much from the NCSU admins as from the goggle-eyed crazies swinging from the tire swings in the Brickyard Zoo. ..... I must add an exception.
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