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There are certain things that just go together. Beer and pretzels, hotdogs and baseball, apple pie and vanilla ice cream, T-shirts and jeans, peanut butter and jelly, laptops and Starbucks. You know what I'm talkin' about -- little slices of Americana that should not be messed with. You know it, I know it, and thank God, the governor knows it. My man Butch stood up for all Americans and the American way of life when he vetoed a bill that would ban smoking in bowling alleys. Ban smoking in bowling alleys? Yeah right! You might as well ban mullets at NASCAR races or white tank tops in trailer parks -- Marty Fortier/Coeur d'Alene Press.
DFO: Are you glad that the Legislature overrode Butch Otter's veto?
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.
go together. Beer and pretzels, hotdogs and baseball, apple pie and vanilla ice cream, T-shirts and jeans, peanut butter and jelly, laptops and Starbucks. You know what I'm talkin' about -- little slices of Americana that should not be messed with. You know it, I know it, and thank God, the governor knows it. My man Butch stood up for all Americans and the American way of life when he vetoed a bill that would ban smoking in bowling alleys. Ban smoking in bowling alleys? Yeah right! You might as well ban mullets at NASCAR races or white tank tops in trailer parks -- Marty Fortier/Coeur d'Alene Press.
