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Written by NEXTnc staff
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Wednesday, 31 May 2006 |
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YES, IT IS CANDY
So, a NEXTnc staffer was innocently perusing the Oriental Trading Co. Inc. magazine. It’s catalog where you can buy all sorts of party stuff, toys, novelty items, candy — the works.
She was leafing through, looking at fake tattoos, sticky lizards and even some alphabet gummy candy.
Then, lo and behold, what did she see on the next line? A Bag O’Blood. It’s a bag like you’d find in an operating room, filled with red “sour, strawberry-flavored liquid candy.”
WTF? Do you give this to the aspiring vampire child in the family? Mind you, this isn’t being marketed to adults for Halloween. It’s right there with Twizzlers and Dum Pops.
Then again, it is fat-free. Whoo. Thank goodness.
PARK IT ALREADY
Ever been in a busy parking lot, at a Wal-Mart for instance, and a car backs up traffic flow by sitting and waiting for another vehicle to back out of a space?
We witnessed several times recently when, had the driver opted for a space eight rows farther back, he would have had time to walk in the store, purchased his Fiddle Faddle, and been back at the car by the time he parked.
Cripes, people, get a clue.
SNAP, CRACKLE AND YAWN
We understand why the critics were so hot and bothered by The Da Vinci Code.
Not because we’re intellectual snobs like many of the critics who blast the stiffness of the book’s dialogue. As a matter of fact, we’re fans of the book. No, director Ron Howard and actor Tom Hanks committed the most serious of movie faux pas: They made a boring flick.
Heck, halfway through the movie, we were rooting for Catholic Church to succeed in covering up the code.
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