Tabloid Headlines

July 28, 2002: Things you would never know if you did not
browse the tabloids while waiting for your wife at the counter
in the supermarket – today's headlines:

JONBENET PARENTS DIVORCE BLOW-UP
Will dying mom rat out dad?

[courtesy National Enquirer]

'PRICE IS RIGHT' BEAUTY FIRED!
Too sexy for Bob Barker

[courtesy the Star]

BRITNEY COLLAPSES
Crash diet causes health nightmare

[courtesy National Enquirer]

LETTERS to and FROM the EDITOR:

Frank Reed <Jansblooms@aol.com> wrote
Sun 28 Jul 2002 @12:07:09 CDT "for Jan":

Hi Natty, I do not read the Tabloids and recommend
you not waste your time on them either.

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July 21, 2002: Things you would never know if you did not
browse the tabloids while waiting for your wife at the counter
in the supermarket – today's headline:

END TIMES HAVE BEGUN!

[courtesy the Star]

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July 14, 2002:   Things you would never know if you did not
browse the tabloids while waiting for your wife at the counter
in the supermarket – today's headlines:

AMELIA EARHART'S PLANE LANDS ON PACIFIC ISLAND
                  . . . WITH SKELETON AT CONTROLS!

                                                                   [courtesy Weekly World News]

PRINCE WILLIAM GOING BALD!

                              [courtesy the Star]

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lined up for meetings in the near future include Ted Williams' son,
Ted Williams, and Iranian women who murdered their husbands.

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July 7, 2002:   Things you would never know if you did not
browse the tabloids while waiting for your wife at the coun-
ter in the supermarket – today's headlines:

BULGING BRITNEY PILES ON 15 lbs

                                  [courtesy the Star]

OPRAH LOSES 68 lbs!

         [courtesy the Globe]

GREEDY MARTHA STEWART COLLAPSES

                                 [courtesy the Star]

PRINCE WILLIAM CAUGHT DOING DRUGS

                                         [courtesy the Globe]

LETTERS to the EDITOR:

Allende wrote Mon 01 Jul 2002 @01:13:04 CDT re
the two-headed man running for mayor against himself:

Washinton Post says race likely to remain neck and neck
until election day; loser to go to Europe to play pro soccer.

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