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WRI 66: The Moustache of Irony

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The World Beard Championship.  Touting the Admiral.  White-Gloved, Top-Hatted Men with a Cup.  Cornwall; Smugglers; the Black Guard.  Hal-An-Tow.  Advisories Issued by the Spanish Embassy in London.  Our Sister City: A Fermented Mare’s Milk Churn?  Donderskamp.

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WRI 65: World Cup En Fuego

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Inventors of Soccer, Inventors of America.  The Footsie. Mysterious Algerenes; Desert Foxes.  Eyepatches.  FIFI.  An Audience with the Pope.  The Dream of Zamenhof.  Who Killed Esperanto?  (The French - of course).

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WRI 64: Nietzsche’s Tool

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The Bad Brains Experience. Michael Jackson; Salpetriere Hospital. Gerard
Depardieuuuuuuuuuu. Low-Hanging Fruit in Medicine: Unshackling the
Mentally Ill. The Dynamometer, the White Man, and Sigmund Freud.
Nietzsche and Homosexual Gym Culture. Factulation.

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WRI 63: Markus the Sublime, Francis the Jejune

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Homo Tremendiensis.  The Holy Roman Empire; Notker the Stammerer.  Transhumance.  Statelessness.  The Treaty of Trianon: The Free City Of Trieste, and Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities.  The Tequila Train - The Coffee Train.  Weasel Coffee, Production of.  All Hail the Asian Palm Civet.

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WRI 62: The Worshipful Company of Grocers

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Marco Polo.  Cloves; Tobacco.  Made Up Laws & Camel Cavalry.  Lewis and Clark Misinformation.  The Interstate Highway System, Gateway to the Conquest of Canada.  The Bloody Caesar.  Angry Feral Pigs.

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WRI 61: The Curse of the Flying Tomato

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Boundless bounding African fauna.  You say duiker, I say dik-dik.  Papa Hemingway vs. Jesus Christ.  African contributions to alpine sport.  Francis: Another Man Called Horse.  Suicide by popgun.  Military Patrol for Glory!  The demise of wool.  The glory years of Garmisch-Partenkirschen.  Enterprising Finns.

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WRI 60: The Sting Pain Index

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Gay Bodybuilding; Perfectly Legal Supplements.  Dangers of Saudi Arabian Sorcery.  Complete Rehabilitation for People Who Have Fallen Away From God.  The Schmidt Sting Pain Index.  Flavors of Shoulder Surgery.

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WRI 59: The Reasons For the Season

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Eid.  Mr. Christmas.  Santa’s Black Helpers & Their Speculative Origin.  Facts: Beside the Point;–Mark: Unbeaten.  Mummery, Shocking Roots Of.  Coal Reconsidered.  The Mustache of Irony.  Wren Day, Krampus, and Junkanoo.

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WRI 58: And They’re Off!

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Good and Plenty; huns in pink.  Blue Line to Wonderland, Black-Eyed Susans.  Cro-Magnon Competitions.  Pio Pico!  Toddler Jockeys.  Urinating in Siena.

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