"Cheri" > wrote in message
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> "Dave Smith" > wrote in message
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>> On 2014-07-07 11:25 AM, jmcquown wrote:
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>>> I'm an exception, too. I've never bought one of those tabloid rags and
>>> never will. But yes, *someone* is buying them.
>>>
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>> One of life's big disappointment is to be in a grocery store checkout
>> line behind a very attractive woman.... and then she grabs one of those
>> gossip rags. You are struck with the reality of the notion that brains
>> and beauty do not mix.
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> Well, I do see men buying them too. When I worked at a drugstore, the new
> ones came out on Wednesdays and several older men would be there to buy
> them. More women for sure though.

My parents always bought the National Enquirer and for a time my dad bought
some British equivalent. National Enquirer is all made up stuff but the
British one was even more bizarre. They enjoyed reading that stuff. I
don't get it. Yes, I know that a lot of stuff in the celebrity magazines
isn't true but there's never stuff like dog mating with lion.