Shopping for your new girlfriend? Sweet. Here’s a piece of advice for you: that thing you have in your hand right now? Put it down. Put it down and walk away or it’s going to become a big, old thing and your Christmas morning will be filled with screaming and acrimony, instead of Johnny Mathis […]
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Writer misreads racism on campus
During the past few weeks, I have seen troubling responses to the college student movement against racism on campus. On Monday, Nov. 23, Mark LaFlamme published an article, “At college campuses, it’s ‘The Crucible’ all over again.” Words cannot begin to describe how incorrect LaFlamme was in analyzing the racial issues across this nation. As […]
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Street Talk: At college campuses, it’s ‘The Crucible’ all over again
The world has gone nuts. There’s hardly anything more that needs to be said about it. The world is crazy, and it’s apparently out of our control now to bring it back. In Missouri, a group of students stomping their feet and screaming about phantom insults was enough to force a president and chancellor out […]
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Street Talk: The lost art of note-passing
Dear Reader. I like you, do you like me? Your eyes sparkle like diamonds and I think you’re neat. Don’t tell anybody, OK? OK. In Florida, a 9-year-old fourth-grader is in trouble — in BIG trouble, little mister — for passing a love letter to a classmate. Apparently the lovelorn lad wanted the girl to […]
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Street Talk does not mean I’m talking to you
Hi there. How are you? I like your hair today. Do you like mine? Don’t answer those questions. I wasn’t talking to you. Sometimes I think I might be losing my mind. This will come as a shock to most of you. I know you’ve always considered me the very height of emotional and spiritual […]
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K. Gee: LaFlamme got it right
I am writing to say how much I enjoyed reading the “Street Talk” columns by Mark LaFlamme about the “nanny state” (Jan. 29) and “tips for surviving the storm” (Jan. 28). How right he was about the nanny state. Things sure aren’t like they used to be, when students walked to school, often long distances […]
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Street Talk: Hop on, I’ll race you to New Year’s Day
You know how I feel about you, right? We argue from time to time, and there are days when you just want to punch me in the snout and throw me into the Androscoggin — but you know I love you, right? Right? I do. And that’s why I’m hoping with all of my heart […]
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Enunciation frustration:
‘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 […]