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...Salsa, no. Tango, yes. Fox-trot, no. Electric slide, please. Roger Rabbit, thanks but no thanks. Freaking, you betcha...
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...couple of times a week, because I know I should and wish I did. No doubt this was the mentality of the more than 3,000 working adults who, when asked by the Families and Work Institute whether they were spending more time with their families, said, "You betcha!" Men claimed they were devoting more than two hours every day to Kinder and Kuche, half an hour more than 20 years ago. This, naturally, spawned outsize headlines, led by the New York Times's MEN ASSUMING BIGGER SHARE AT HOME, NEW SURVEY SHOWS...
...YEARS BACK, HOWARD MOHR of A Prairie Home Companion wrote a book called How to Talk Minnesotan. Was it funny? Hey, you betcha. So are the twistings of that frosty, flabbergastingly flat accent as heard on the Minnesota-based Mystery Science Theater 3000. Two other gifted natives, the filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, have apparently never got over the giggle value of their regional dialect. Fargo, their derisive new true-crime comedy, could be subtitled How to Laugh at People Who Talk Minnesotan...
...battling the problem of fat: throw away the TV set. Nutritionists believe overweight people are particularly susceptible to external cues about food--and commercial TV offers a relentless barrage of such cues, showing creamy, crispy, salty, sugary, savory, toasty, melts-in-the-mouth, betcha- can't-eat-just-one concoctions. The dieter who wants to stop constantly thinking about food, yet spends each night in front of the tube, is doomed to failure...