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...game wasn't overly dramatic or heart-wrenching, nor did it have any major effect on the league standings. But it was won because of a single, flailing, smelly catfish. Imagine the possibility of sitting in front of an entire city, lavishly telling the tale as if a Greek epic. Imagine sports journalism...

Author: By Bradford E. Miller, | Title: Miller Time! | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

Among the items dropped from the menu are lamb curry, Asian bluefish, ginger peach catfish, turkey parmesan and Moroccan stuffed peppers--all of which received low ratings on HDS's electronic surveys...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HDS Cuts 25 Items From Menu | 1/6/1997 | See Source »

...becomes part of a familiar chant ("Fireflies, fireflies, light my way/ Lead me to the place where the turtles play") when the story is read by an adult with a three-year-old chiming in. Linda Messier's glowing, Henri Rousseau-inspired illustrations help a child recognize the frogs, catfish, wood ducks and otters that inhabit a nighttime pond deep in the woods. Alligators turn up too, but this being a gentle tale, they pretty much keep to themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ...AND SOME NICE THINGS TO READ | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

...Bruce Nelson, a Minnesota resident who, while catching frogs for catfish bait, realized that almost all of the frogs he caught were horribly deformed. The deformed frogs, which can have anywhere from zero to six legs, shrunken sex organs and missing eyes, are almost ubiquitous in Minnesota. Scientists are not sure what's causing the deformity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWSPEAK | 10/10/1996 | See Source »

...work for a new kingdom over the resistance of the sheep people, or "sheeple." The Militia of Montana offers a similar vision: those who will rescue the Constitution are an underground army of men who have semiautomatics cached in barrels in the woods and who know you can catch catfish with Ivory soap as bait, men whom society now views as "outcast," "strange" or "erratic primitives" (in highlighted descriptions from clippings in Trochmann's mailings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OUTCASTS DIGGING IN FOR THE APOCALYPSE | 5/1/1995 | See Source »

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