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That Glass of Nasty Cough Medicine Is Half Full!

Senior producer Matt Martinez is suffering from a bad head cold, and he's approaching the point where he's actually delusional. He just got back from a trip to the pharmacy clutching a box of tissues and I swear he just said, "these are everything I like all in one thing. I like lotion and Vicks and tissues and these are all together in one thing." Then he pulled out a bag of cough drops and said, "And these are two things I like together. These are menthol and ginger ale." Now he's decided he will never buy anything that's not combined with something else.

Go home, Matt. Happy Thanksgiving.

Tricia McKinney

2:35 PM ET | 11-21-2007 | permalink

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Hopefully Matt's family won't decide he is too sick to attend the Thanksgiving festivities . . . and come to the conclusion that he needs to be quarantined. It would thoroughly stink to sit in cold isolation, eating half-frozen Turkey/Tofurky along with hardened mashed potatoes while sounds of scintillating joy and laughter resonate in the immediate background . . .

There is a chance this might cheer him up though, regardless:
http://www.comics.com/comics/pearls/archive/pearls-20071118.html

It does a wonderful job of capturing the spirit of the holiday . . . sort of.

Sent by Will G | 7:35 PM ET | 11-21-2007

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