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L.L. Bean's relentless hunt leaves this consumer feeling trapped

1:49 PM Thu, Mar 29, 2007 | | Comments (4)
By Jack Perry    Email

It's been five or six days since we received our last L.L. Bean catalog, and I'm starting to worry. Is the mailman sick? Did he injure his back hauling the catalogs to my house? Has the company gone out of......

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Mouse got your dentures?

11:13 AM Mon, Mar 26, 2007 | | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

The mouse in this Associated Press story has a vendetta, a sense of humor or both: Mouse absconds with Maine man's dentures "I knew that little stinker stole my teeth - I just knew it," said Bill Exner, 68, of......

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If not the Easter Bunny, why not Bugs Bunny?

2:16 PM Fri, Mar 23, 2007 | | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

Like a lot of readers who responded to our survey, I'm disappointed by the decision in Tiverton to replace the Easter Bunny with Peter Rabbit at tomorrow's school fair. Unlike many of the readers, I'm not so upset that this......

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The bank robber who left his address and another dumb criminal story

3:14 PM Thu, Mar 22, 2007 | | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

This Associated Press headline out of New Hampshire caught my eye: Bank robber who left address behind pleads guilty I wonder if he's related to the guy arrested for allegedly threatening Governor Carcieri last Friday on a recorded line in......

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Big Momma tells her big kids to eat veggies

1:26 PM Wed, Mar 21, 2007 | | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

It's probably too harsh to claim that Rhode Island state government is acting like Big Brother with its employees. Big Momma might be more appropriate. Your choice: Veggie hash? You remember mom demanding that we eat our vegetables when all......

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R.I. state police to lawn mower man: Call ahead

3:23 PM Tue, Mar 20, 2007 | | Comments (2)
By Jack Perry    Email

The Rhode Island State Police won't chase the lawn mower man out of the Ocean State, if he makes it this far, and he calls ahead. "Obviously he can't drive down 95 on his lawn mower, unless it goes 60......

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Will the R.I. State Police chase world's fastest lawn mower?

12:24 PM Mon, Mar 19, 2007 | | Comments (1)
By Jack Perry    Email

The lawn mower man could soon roll into Rhode Island on the "world's fastest lawn mower," part of his effort to raise money for charity and break a record for riding across the country. The question is: Will the police......

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Fried skunk: A dish best served to in-laws?

12:46 PM Fri, Mar 16, 2007 | | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

The guy from Cape Cod who claims to enjoy roadkill skunk liver might find a few people willing to join him at the dinner table after all. Due to a twisted fasicnation with the topic in my corner of the......

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Dreaming of care-free driving

2:15 PM Thu, Mar 15, 2007 | | Comments (1)
By Jack Perry    Email

Providence Mayor David Cicilline dreams of looking out his office window and seeing a downtown uncongested by cars, an idyllic place where people have left their Fords and Hondas home in favor of walking or taking streetcars. The ambitious young......

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