Say what you want about the archaic nature of phone books, but with one of them, I found exactly what I was looking for in about six seconds.
Mark LaFlamme
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Talk of the town: Ode to the potato
Target coming to Auburn Lord, I hope they don’t put up yellow poles to control parking. Stick with those giant red balls, Target. Only a fool would ram into one of those. (Wait for it …) Maine Legislature torches Viking-style funeral pyres bill Waddaya mean? Are you telling me these rituals are illegal at the […]
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Those yellow poles in the Walmart parking lot; they’re out to get us
Street Talk: I think we can all agree on this: In the war between Walmart’s yellow poles and our cars, trucks and minivans, the poles are winning on every front.
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Talk of the Town: Do you smell that?
“Lobster lovers feeling the pinch of high prices” “Feel the pinch!” I get it! Because lobsters have pincers. Ha! That’s a good one! I am laughing out loud. But as far as the craving for lobster, count me out. I lost my taste for them a few years ago when it occurred to me — […]
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Street Talk: Signing bonuses and fancy titles. Get your dream job today!
We are living in the kind of economic state that could allow a person to take giant leaps in status by simply showing up. And they’ll pay you just to be there!
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Talk of the Town: Trade you a gross green pepper for a tasty sausage
It’s happening again It’s my fault. I let my guard down. Once the chocolate graham crackers began to appear on store shelves again, I thought the crisis was over. But it’s not. Went to the Hannaford the other day to get a couple boxes and there they were, gone! Completely depleted! The regular, boring graham […]
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Street Talk: Naked people everywhere and doing weird things
By the time I was six months on the job here, I was already bewildered by how many people were running around naked on the downtown residential streets.
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Mark LaFlamme: Put your shirt on, Shatner
Talk of the Town is inspired by a reporter who was shirtless for some reason.
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Street Talk: Even pilgrims made the police log
I have never had any sort of personal link to the logs, other than the philosophical demand that if you’re going to run the arrests, you have to do it fairly.
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Talk of the town: If my cat calls, tell her I’m not here
The Great Leaning Pole of Walmart OK, what IS the deal with that leaning pole in the Walmart parking lot? Every day there’s a new picture of somebody’s car either tipped over on its side or just leaning comically because somebody drove into that pole again and at appreciable speed. Either we’ve got some strange […]