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NEWS reaches Feedback of a grim, cold first Monday back at university, and a class introducing humanities graduate students to statistics. Our informant was distracted by her neighbour snacking on McCoy's crisps – and especially by the prominent legend on the packet: "MAN CRISPS".
Could this snack actually be deep-fried slices of man? If so, isn't there some sort of prior art claim from heirs of Mrs Lovett, proprietor of the pie shop supplied by demon barber Sweeney Todd? If the classmate wasn't munching on crispy fried slithers of male human, isn't there a trade descriptions issue here? And does the manufacturer have balancing plans for "woman crisps", or "dolphin crisps" for that matter?
The UK Post Office is pushing life insurance – by email, to John Whittle, dated 16 December 2014, offering ...
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