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Caruso’s Quips

Andreea August 8, 2018     Monthly Columns, Opinion

By Charles Caruso

Roof workers are good company on a grey morning.
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How to lose 120 pounds in one day: get divorced.
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Another day, another dolor.
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When you stay at a hotel you’re sleeping on a bed that a complete stranger slept on 24 hours before.
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We hear a lot about ‘American values.’ Here’s are some:
Slavery, the wipeout of the Indians, the invasion of Mexico, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Korea,
Vietnam, Bay of Pigs, multiple attempts to murder Castro . . . and the list goes on.
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A lively conversation in the next apartment turns out to be a lonely guy watching television.
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Moronhood achieved: Much binge-watching, little binge-reading.
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Our vaunted democracy has given us this blond bouffant buffoon.
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What next? A guy with a little black mustache?
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As intense and as brief as a hospital friendship.
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Poetry and pottery. Pottery much more useful.

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