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The Salt
3:23 pm
Tue August 21, 2012

Home brew petitioners to POTUS: Release the beer recipe

Credit Carolyn Kaster / AP
President Barack Obama enjoys a beer at The Pump House in Cedar Falls, Iowa, this month, but would you like to know what's in his homebrew? There's a petition for that.
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Originally published on Mon October 15, 2012 10:02 am

There's a little-known part of the White House website that allows average citizens to create online petitions. And in amongst the weighty requests to end police brutality and allow prescription drugs to be imported, a little item caught our eye: "Release the recipe for the Honey Ale home brewed at the White House."

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2:42 pm
Mon August 20, 2012

Phyllis Diller, dead at 95: comedian had St. Louis connections

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Via NPR News, Phyllis Diller has died at the age of 95. The comedian was once a resident of Webster Groves and performed at area comedy clubs. She also has a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame.
In the 1950s, when Diller started being funny for a living, there were no female standup comedians making it big. Some critics have said she succeeded because a lot of her material was about mocking herself. She died at home, where she'd been in hospice care after a fall, at the age of 95.
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The Two-Way
10:47 am
Tue August 14, 2012

'F-Bomb,' 'earworm,' others added to dictionary

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March 23, 2010: Vice President Biden famously drops an f-bomb.
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Originally published on Tue August 14, 2012 10:45 am

  • Vice President Biden's March 23, 2010, f-bomb (we've bleeped it)

We expect that most folks won't need to look up the definition. But just in case, "f-bomb" now has its own entry in the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.

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