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    Thursday
    May312007

    Figaro Beats His Son!

    GeorgeRocker.small.JPGFigaro will spare you the chore of reading him this morning.  Instead, please hear his rhetorical commentary which ran last night on NPR’s “All Things Considered.”  Not to brag or anything (apophasis), but it’s already on the network’s most-emailed list.  Please let us know what you think—add a comment to this entry.

    Yrs,
    Fig.

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    Reader Comments (23)

    If my legs looked as good as George's legs, I'd wear shorts every day, year after year, too. Does he use toothpaste to keep that firm tone?
    June 1, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterGenie
    George certainly didn't inherit his dad's legs, which seem to have some genes from a wading bird.
    June 3, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterFigaro
    I wouldn't call them SNOTS, exactly Sydney. Just rhetorically rambunctious. (They both subscribe to Figarospeech.)

    Fig.
    June 3, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterFigaro

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