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...somehow even missed its name. Given Trie's eagerness to please, though, I suspect he chose a name designed to make some of those Arkansas legislators from places like Mount Ida and Ash Flat feel as comfortable as they could in an Oriental setting--maybe something like the Jade Goober...
There has been so much written about Clinton's life in Little Rock that it's not difficult to imagine what his visits to the Jade Goober must have been like. In my mind, the trip from his office to the Goober would have been on foot, a poll by Dick Morris having shown that most Arkansans prefer that the Governor walk rather than ride to lunch and, if possible, not via a route that would take him by McDonald's for hors d'oeuvres...
...Bears. 10 Brookline St., Cambridge. 492-BEAR. Mike Johnson Band on Thursday, Nov. 4. Letters to Cleo on Friday, Nov. 5. Goober and the Peas on Saturday...
From the moment I punch in or step into a warehouse, I feel as if I have entered the Tower of Babel: nothing makes sense. For instance, when my foreman tells me to "cut the grass down thar between that patch of goober weeds and them stink weeds," I am at a complete loss...
Twenty minutes later, surveying the massacred patch of flowers, he hits me with the inevitable line: "You go to HARVARD and you don't know the difference between goober weeds and stink weeds?!!! Gawwwwdamn...