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...already showing signs of waning. And targeted marketing can take on ridiculous dimensions - Nice On, for example, is an energy drink that's supposedly just for golfers. Then there's Man Fragrance gum, which purports to release beads of rose and menthol essence through human pores so the chewer can change the smell of sweat. (The gum might make a nice chaser to Kirin's recent hit, Fire Menthol Coffee...
Talk on the bench shifted from the massacre on the field to an appraisal of the accomplishments of various tobacco chewers on the team: Bill Scheft was pronounced the veteran star, but all agreed that Dave Crowley would be in there for rookie chewer of the year, since "he's gone the distance...
American politics and government are particularly vulnerable to Rogers' kind of humor. Politicians who parade as national leaders look silly when you notice their common imperfections. Rogers described Calvin Coolidge's stiff-lipped way of talking: "Coolidge is what we call at home a close chewer and a tight spitter." But he did not limit his jokes to personal failings; he also knocked irresponsible government policies and actions. The moral self-righteousness with which we infuse our policies seems absurd against the hard truths of government inefficiency and immorality. Rogers used this contrast as a major source of his biting...
Snyder is strictly a competitive chewer; he started at 17 when he first heard about the contest, and has been out to win from the beginning. He wears boots exactly twelve inches long, "so I can measure my practice spits without a tape." For a month before a big contest, he spits for about two hours a day, fixing his eyes, his head, his entire body on target before he lets fly a practice shot. Unlike others, he uses hardly any body thrust...
...prodigious feat and they are ecstatic. "I don't see how anybody'll ever catch him unless he slips up," says George Craft. But against the day that Snyder is the sport's grand old man, Timmy Tullos, aged nine and for two years a chewer, is toeing the line with the men and firing away...