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“How to Stop Kids’ Bickering” Mission: Impossible…and Ridiculous
Ladue/Frontenac citizenry solve problem by reading between the lines of magazine headlines.
I was in the Ladue Crossing Schnucks over at 8867 Ladue, standing in the grocery store checkout line and reading headlines from the magazines in the rack. I read the heading on The Enquirer: "Paris Hilton Dating Bigfoot." I opened the magazine and flipped to the photos where it was revealed that "Bigfoot" is a basketball player with size 20 shoes. I expected the play on words because it's impossible for even Paris Hilton to date the Real Bigfoot, and because I know that the headlines are purposely ambiguous so as to tease us into buying the publication. Then I checked out the Cosmopolitan in another rack. One of its headlines read: "How to Stop Kids' Bickering." Being a parent of bickering children I anxiously thumbed to the story, …
Jeff Brandt
8:26 pm on Sunday, January 9, 2011
Very nice! This is a refreshing read. more ›