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...diminish Mac's achievement. The duration of Maris's record alone speaks to its elusiveness. But come October, Steve Trachsel and Sammy Sosa would do well to remember Tom Zachary--who served up baseball's greatest gopher ball but still reached its pinnacle...
...Crimson went on-line in the spring of 1994when former Managing Editor Joe Mathews '95collaborated with the Harvard Computer Society topublish The Crimson's top four stories on theInternet each night using an early informationdistribution service called Gopher...
Then Dole went to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, leaving himself open to unlimited Lawrence Welk jokes and leaving me with little excuse for failing to deal with the stuffed-gopher museum in Torrington, Alberta...
...been stalling since early June, when Torrington, a tiny community with access to a bit of tourist-development money from the province, opened the Gopher Hole Museum. Extrapolating from the area's limited renown for an overabundance of gophers, whose destructive burrowing has always brought armed retaliation from local farmers, the museum used stuffed gophers to portray daily life in Torrington. "In 31 displays," according to the Associated Press, "54 gophers play hockey and Little League baseball, get a hairdo, preach a sermon, shoot pool in the local tavern...even rob a bank, with the teller told, 'Put your paws...
...these issues begin. It may be only a matter of time before everyone will have to take a stand on deceased animals. Is it respectful, for instance, for Roy Rogers to display his horse Trigger stuffed in a noble pose but disrespectful for Torrington to display a stuffed gopher robbing a bank? (Burrowing, after all, is not a felony...