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APhoto of the Day — 7/3/07


Lisa Poole/AP Photo, Daily News

Lou Perry, of Gloucester, Mass., takes the flag and wins the Friday greasy pole contest during the Saint Peter's Fiesta, Friday, June 29, 2007, in Gloucester. Perry advances to the Saturday competition. You write the cutline.

Top Cutlines

1. "It's not unlike walking this pole to get this flag," said Oliveria explaining how he manages a successful blog during an in-house discussion on blogs at The Spokesman Review. "That looked easy enough, eh? Now you do it" -- Tennessee Top Hat.

2. Realizing he's on a slippery slope, Larry Spencer again goes out on a limb to attack the Kroc Center -- John Austin.

3. At the end of the Greasy Pole Contest, the competition organizers announced that the pole had been greased with bird excrement -- Nic.



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.