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...doesn't take much exposure to the residents of Fayette County to discern the profound social conservatism that permeates the mountain communities. One elderly woman at the church lowered her voice to a whisper to say "I hope they ain't any dope at Harvard." I suspect that the most hated phrase in southern West Virginia is "gun control...
...course, pedestrian meteorology is a lot like the vice-presidency; in the words of John Nance Gardner, "It ain't worth a bucket of warm spit." Still, the warm weather--however transitory it may turn out to be--defrosted a few minds around campus, shaking some latent thoughts into the fray of public debate. Some hot topics...
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Less than six months later Public Enemy released a new single, Welcome to the Terrordome, on which Ridenhour, in an apparent reference to the earlier incident, says, "Crucifixion ain't no fiction;/ So-called chosen, frozen./ Apology made to whoever pleases./ Still they got me like Jesus." Upset by the references to deicide and the term so-called chosen, the Anti-Defamation League wrote a protest letter to CBS, the record's distributors. The company eventually issued an internal memo instructing its employees to ensure "that none of our recordings promote bigotry." But Public Enemy and its supporters remain unapologetic...
...Maybe you understand frogs and maybe you don't understand 'em," says Smiley in Mark Twain's The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. "Maybe you've had experience and maybe you ain't only an amature, as it were." Seattle animal importer Andy Koffman ain't no amateur. In 1986, while visiting the African nation of Cameroon, Koffman watched a 10-lb. Goliath frog leap 30 ft. across a river, and jumped to a conclusion. "The first thing I thought was, 'Wouldn't it be fun to win the Calaveras contest?' " recalls Koffman...