Guest Thinkers — November 26, 2010

Worst headline of 2010? The Sun may have nailed it.

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Recovering from making all the Thanksgiving food (and now trying to avoid any and all stores) … so only one thing today:

Dear readers, have fun with this from the Sun (UK). I know I did.

Try and see if you can figure out what is actually going on. The Sun sure didn’t.

Enjoy the weekend!

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