‘You picked a fine time to leave me, loose wheel’ and other misheard lyrics that surprise, confound and delight. Back in the big-haired days of 1984, I witnessed a group of nearly grown men fighting over the title of a hot new song on the radio. The argument preceding the fisticuffs sounded like this: “Idiot! […]
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Talk of the town
Quit making me cross What’s with the people who insist on mashing those traffic control buttons at street crossings no matter how much traffic is on the road? I’ve seen people pressing those things with an air of grave impatience at 3 in the morning, like it was noon in Time Square. Jamming those buttons […]
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R. Poisson: ‘Street Talk’ column made sense
Send up the fireworks, Mark LaFlamme has finally made sense. I refer to his “Street Talk” column of July 24. Once in a great while, I read part of his tirades, but they usually don’t amount to much. Most times he just rambles on and on, not saying anything. That column, however, about people using […]
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C. Arey: Getting the true story
I would like to thank Mark LaFlamme and the Sun Journal for the article, “Constitutional Coalition speaks out,” (July 6) about the group’s meetings with Gov. Paul LePage. It appears that LaFlamme is the only reporter who was interested in hearing Phil Merletti and Wayne Leach tell their side of the story. I am very […]
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S. Groleau: Thank you, Mr. LaFlamme
Kudos to Mark LaFlamme’s “Street Talk” of March 3 — “Live free or live in Connecticut.” It is very refreshing to read a column about gun control that illustrates the absurdity of lawmakers who would incarcerate otherwise law-abiding citizens, using gestapo methods to raid homes and arrest good citizens, all while lawyers and judges continue […]
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Giant blob? Who can resist such a story?
It’s really difficult for hardened newspaper reporters, like our own Mark LaFlamme, to ignore certain stories. Like those involving blobs. Or anything that happens in a subterranean urban cavern. Or bizarre things that happen to people while seated on toilets. And if a single story contains all of those items, and if it occurs in such […]
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Lawn trolling: Writer learns the art of ‘rommaging’ while swimming with the ‘sharks’
It’s a crisp Saturday afternoon and I’m brooding over an old typewriter. It’s a Smith Corona, just like I had as a kid, and it could be mine for 10 bucks. So many questions. Do I need a manual typewriter? Should I dicker over the price? Furthermore, now that I’ve been standing here gawking at […]
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J. Braun: Story did the situation justice
My compliments to staff writer Mark LaFlamme and the Sun Journal for the informative, respectful, front page article, “Crowd protests moving oil by rail” (Aug. 29). I also compliment the protesters for their bravery and members of the Auburn Police Department for their professional response. That was a model of civil disobedience on an extremely […]
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Street Talk: Better-late-than-never tips for surviving the storm, sort of
Good morning. It snowed. Look outside your window, and you will see evidence of this. I always back up my assertions with facts, you know. I’m a journalist. I had planned my usual report on world financial markets and parenting tips for this space, but in light of recent meteorological events, I’m making a sharp […]