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Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
You should know what you're doing before you go white water rafting.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2009
  • Length: :29
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
One evening when my friend Winky was reading the newspaper he said to his wife, "Here's a man up in Rangeley who was shot for a moose."

  • Added: Feb 27, 2009
  • Length: :24
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Have you noticed that all of a sudden there is a lot of opposition to the bailouts?

  • Added: Feb 24, 2009
  • Length: :16
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
In 1945 any American who had any kind of job could buy a home.

  • Added: Feb 21, 2009
  • Length: 03:19
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Almost 800,000 dog bites every year are serious enough to receive medical attention -- 30 or so people are killed by dogs in this country in any gi...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2009
  • Length: :57
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
If you are not rich, famous or handsome, you don’t need to feel that you’ve missed out on something.

  • Added: Feb 16, 2009
  • Length: :54
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
People in northern Maine don't operate like the people in southern Maine

  • Added: Feb 12, 2009
  • Length: 01:12
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
You can't believe a thing Winky says.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2009
  • Length: :21
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Radio commentators sometimes receive threatening letters.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2009
  • Length: 01:55
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Individual bank deposits are only insured by the federal government up to $100,000

  • Added: Feb 10, 2009
  • Length: 02:32
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
If everyone supported Maine Family Planning, in a very few years there would be no need for food pantries in Maine.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2009
  • Length: :48
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A sociologist at Harvard, has just published a study proving that everything is youth oriented in the present decade.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2009
  • Length: :39
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
American adults demand quality entertaiment on television

  • Added: Feb 08, 2009
  • Length: :41
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Good teachers are almost as important for a child’s growth and development as new school buildings and a gymnasium

  • Added: Feb 07, 2009
  • Length: 01:34
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A little boy who has had his entire life dictated by adults is likely to make mistakes when he's finally on his own.

  • Added: Feb 06, 2009
  • Length: 01:14
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Thanks to Al Peel who invented dry skin, women now spend billions every year for moist skin.

  • Added: Feb 06, 2009
  • Length: 02:05
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Mutual Suffering is the basis for most of the successful marriages in Knox County today

  • Added: Feb 05, 2009
  • Length: 04:42
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A football player for the Boston Redskins made the Guineas Book of Records by playing 12 months without having broken knees or cartilage repaired b...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2009
  • Length: :41
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A woman unable to understand the metric system was crushed up against the wall by an oven overflowing with fudge brownie mix.

  • Added: Feb 03, 2009
  • Length: :59
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
When many men hear talk about a six pack of firm abs, they reach down and lovingly pat one firm ab caused by too many six packs.

  • Added: Feb 01, 2009
  • Length: :28
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
IT is very much like THEY

  • Added: Feb 01, 2009
  • Length: :34
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
I've seen a rubber band, I've seen a peanut stand, I've seen a needle wink its eye

  • Added: Jan 31, 2009
  • Length: :53
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The headline said "City to Debate Animals."

  • Added: Jan 30, 2009
  • Length: :21
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Ten million American children now come home from school to lonely empty houses. With both parents working, care of the child is now left up to the ...

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  • Added: Jan 29, 2009
  • Length: 03:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Gay guys are everybody's best friend

  • Added: Jan 28, 2009
  • Length: :48