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		<title>2012 Foolish Writing Contest</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Hart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Answer this question, “It was so funny ….” in 200 words or less and send it in to be eligible for the $100 first prize, $50 second prize and $25 third prize. Contest begins on January 1, 2012. Final deadline for entries is March 15, 2012. Winners will be published in the April 2012 issue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conversations with God and the Golden Pax</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robyn Justo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robyn Justo &#8211; You all should know by now that I have this little voice that speaks to me now and then (ok, a lot) and looking back, if I had listened to it, life would have been a whole lot easier. We all have this voice, but between our talking and the endless [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tumeric and Other Firearms</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:53:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Tompsett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mary Tompsett &#8211; Some folks say we’re in for a nasty winter if the squirrels have grown extra tufts of fur on their ears and legs. Around here, however, the most dependable mammalian forecasters aren’t hirsute rodents. No, they’re post-menopausal women. And I’m proud to say, for the past few months the growth of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stuffed Relatives for the Holidays</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Larson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mike Larson &#8211; One warm afternoon a couple of weeks ago, I was sitting outside of my favorite coffee house talking with a friend of mine, when a woman drove up, parked and went into the coffee shop. In the front passenger seat, seat belted in, she had what appeared to be a large [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Easy … or Hooked on Credit</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Gargiulo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ted Gargiulo &#8211; It started with an electronic sewing machine. I was earning $4.50 an hour at the time, back in 1983. My wife’s old appliance had outlived its usefulness. We couldn’t afford a new one. So we charged it. Our rationale was that the machine would pay for itself by saving us from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foolish Shorts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Hart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Proper Wages The Montana Department of Employment, Division of Labor Standards claimed a small rancher was not paying proper wages to his help and sent an agent out to investigate him. Government agent: “I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them.” Rancher: “Well, there’s my hired hand who’s been with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gliding in a What??</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Tompsett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mary Tompsett &#8211; Said the shepherd boy to the little lamb&#8230;do I smell like you smell?? Lo! I bring good tidings to all shepherds and unclean accountants! At last, we can quit chowing down on TUMS now that county fairs are no longer in the news. GOP candidates did their part at many fairs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Middle-Aged Fart Huffer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherine Badin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Catherine Badin &#8211; This is the story of a little girl named Heather who suddenly realized she’d gotten all grown up and had become &#8211; as if overnight! &#8211; a Middle-Aged Fart Huffer. Now, she didn’t feel like a Middle-Aged Fart Huffer&#8230; in fact, she felt like she was still somewhere in the vicinity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Testing Out of Death at 100</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Tompsett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is this world coming to?? A police SWAT team raided a mobile home last night on a tip that the residence was being used as a math lab. Authorities seized a cache of supplies for preparing the dangerously addictive math. They found flash cards, calculators, thousands of mechanical pencils, and an item rarely seen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There’s a High Price to Pay for Beauty</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was standing in the bathroom recently, having just gotten out of the shower, when something suddenly dawned on me. Standing there in my birthday suit, I realized I was surrounded by beauty products. To the left and to the right, the counter top was covered with them. Out of sheer curiosity, I opened the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Unemployment Blues</title>
		<link>http://www.foolishtimes.net/guest-articles/the-unemployment-blues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Larson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Michael Larson - I just got laid off from a job that I really liked, An HR Assistant for a local berry company, I’m sitting at Peet’s Coffee, Trying to think of humorous things that go with unemployment. I’ve got the unemployment blues … Well, I need to think harder for nothing is coming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best of the Inbox</title>
		<link>http://www.foolishtimes.net/guest-articles/best-of-the-inbox-19/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Hart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sawin’ Logs - A man, bug-eyed, disheveled-looking, displaying a long overdo stubble of whiskers and appearing fatigued visits a psychoanalyst. Man: Doc, I haven&#8217;t slept in days. Can you help me? Doc: What&#8217;s the cause of your insomnia? Man: I keep thinking there&#8217;s someone hiding under my bed fixin&#8217; to git&#8217; me while I sleep. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blondes Are The Best</title>
		<link>http://www.foolishtimes.net/guest-articles/blondes-are-the-best-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Hart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hair Apparent - A blonde goes into a nearby store and asks a clerk if she can buy the TV in the corner. The clerk looks at her and says that he doesn&#8217;t serve blondes, so she goes back home and dyes her hair black. The next day she returns to the store and asks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foolish Short</title>
		<link>http://www.foolishtimes.net/guest-articles/foolish-short-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Hart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What’s Up Doc!? After I had finished my work the other day and on my way to the car, I was spotted by two young medical students who were walking along the street. They saw me walking with my legs spread apart. I was stiff-legged and walking slowly. One student said to his friend: &#8220;I&#8217;m sure that poor old man has Peltry Syndrome. Those people walk just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Junior Jokes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Hart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A noise woke me up this morning. What was that? The crack of dawn! What’s red and flies and wobbles at the same time? A jelly copter! Why did the sword swallower swallow an umbrella? He wanted to put something away for a rainy day! What&#8217;s the name for a short legged tramp? A low [...]]]></description>
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		<title>But, Not to Worry</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Tompsett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mary Tompsett &#8212; Several Pulitzer-worthy ideas duked it out for center stage in this article, squabbling for my attention like tired, hungry kids. Actually, brawling ideas are worse than kids because you can’t shut them up by shoving Legos and stale corn chips under their bedroom door. But, not to worry. Each idea will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Pacific Mall Race</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MLarson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Larson &#8212; I use shopping at Pacific Garden Mall in Santa Cruz as an exercise training program. It’s a physical, mental and emotional challenge just to get from one point to the next. I only really go for three reasons: to buy books at either Logos or Book Shop Santa Cruz, cruise Chef [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fool On The Street</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Hart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FT: Basil, what are going to be for Halloween? Basil: A bottle of gin. How about you? FT: Try to guess. I&#8217;m wearing tight pants, a silk shirt and maybe a spray tan. And I&#8217;m someone you&#8217;ve never heard of. Basil: Hmmm, let&#8217;s see. Tacky clothes? FT: Yes. Basil: Bad make-up? FT: Correct. Basil: And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quirky Quotations</title>
		<link>http://www.foolishtimes.net/guest-articles/tonys-ticklers-12/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Hart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Quotation Quiz of Questionable Quality &#8212; by Quarlen Qurossman 1. “Wouldn’t this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive.” A. Albert Brooks B. Angelina Jolie C. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi 2. “The audience was swell. They were so polite they covered their mouths when they yawned.” A. Barack Obama B. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foolish Short</title>
		<link>http://www.foolishtimes.net/guest-articles/foolish-short/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Hart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marriage Counseling &#8212; After 35 years of marriage, a husband and wife come for counseling. When asked what the problem is, the wife went into a passionate, painful tirade listing every problem they had ever had in the years they had been married. On and on and on: neglect, lack of intimacy, emptiness, loneliness, feeling [...]]]></description>
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