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        on good authority that it's not that way at all.  Ken is sticking it
        to  his  boss's  secretary and Ellie tells me that Claudia is frigid;
        she's still hung up on her first  husband.  They  don't  even  sleep
        together anymore."
             The  Steeler  line  buckles.  We try to pass, can't; there is a 
        short lateral run and our man goes down under a pile of Oilers. Carl
        keeps talking.
             "And   I'll  tell  you something else.  Ellie says that Claudia
        says  that Ken can't get it up anymore.  Or if he does get it up, he
        can't keep it up.  You see what I mean?   Maybe he won't admit where
        he  is coming from but his pecker says it loud and clear.  It's just
        like Ron says, you can bullshit your head  but  you  can't  bullshit
        your pecker."
             Puntformation.   The ball spins lazily through the thick, soupy
        air.  A  quick  triangle  of  interference forms around the receiver. 
        One of our men moves in deftly from the side and drops  him  on  the
        thirty eight, hard.  The  murmur  in  the stands breaks into a cheer.
             "And it isn't just Ken and Claudia.  According to Ron, it's all
        of us, everybody taken together,  He says that our whole way of life
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