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		<title>&#8220;If You Can&#8217;t Beat&#8217;em&#8230; Eliminate Them?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2001 08:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editorial by &#8220;Queen of Croquet&#8221; Lin Cherry
The announcement of the coming &#8220;downsizing&#8221; seems to be the latest impulsive decision of the &#8220;fabeled&#8221; President Johnston, whose reputation lately has spoken for itself. By cutting back the members of the LCC, Johnston claims that the LCC can &#8220;build toward a better tomorrow&#8217;. (This is coming from a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Editorial by &#8220;Queen of Croquet&#8221; Lin Cherry</p>
<p>The announcement of the coming &#8220;downsizing&#8221; seems to be the latest impulsive decision of the &#8220;fabeled&#8221; President Johnston, whose reputation lately has spoken for itself. By cutting back the members of the LCC, Johnston claims that the LCC can &#8220;build toward a better tomorrow&#8217;. (This is coming from a man who COULDN&#8217;T EVEN FINISH the 68th Annual Gary Coleman Memorial Team Challenge!).</p>
<p>With this recent decision to, yet again, change the way the game is played, Johnston AGAIN demonstrates that if you can&#8217;t succeed at the game &#8216;as is&#8217;, you better change the rules.</p>
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<p>To those readers who aren&#8217;t familiar, the Gary Coleman Memorial Team Challenge is an annual event that in my estimation, is for retards who can&#8217;t play croquet. Hence the name- The Gary Coleman Challenge- not the Tiger Woods Tournament, not even the Bob Barker Tournament-these brainiacs named it after their hero, good ol&#8217; Arnold. And folks, be warned- the game is lame. Let me break it down&#8230;</p>
<p>At sun-up, hours before the tournament begins, members of the LCC prepare for their day with more hair curlers, hot wax, and cuticle cream than I can describe. Ladies, if you wanna see plucking, priming, and fussing, visit these queens: it&#8217;s not the Prom, it&#8217;s the Coleman.</p>
<p>At the tournament, the game is played in pairs. This allows for no sense of personal accountability for &#8220;fuck ups&#8221; (lame) Moreover, the game day begins not with calisthenics, or team building activities; but with the selection of one&#8217;s Porterhouse Steak and Warshington (sic) Ale to be consumed that evening. What focus, what determination, what waistlines these fine athletes possess. It&#8217;s a joke, people, no more, no less. There&#8217;s Jello Pudding Snacks, a clown with balloon making capabilities, a Hippity Hop, and a First Aid kit. Pathetic.</p>
<p>After the &#8220;tournament&#8221;, the members usually return to a domestic location to marinate, baste and broil their Safeway kill, but not before these Martha Stewarts comment on the plush new couches at the Gepner house. &#8220;White twill is SOOO you&#8221;.. &#8220;Gosh, they match perfectly with the eggshell carpet&#8221;, and &#8220;the perfect balance of scale and function&#8221; were only a few of the cheap lines these men were throwing around like yesterdays panties. I mean, is this croquet or a damn Tupperware Party? Oh, and did I mention that they wore dresses??</p>
<p>So, am I surprised at the latest change to the LCC &#8216;protocol&#8217;? Not in the least. When these powder puffs can&#8217;t stand the smell of their pretty little toes, their game suffers. And when their game suffers, they don&#8217;t even finish the course laid out for them.. And that, my friends, is when they change the rules.</p>
<p>So &#8216;President&#8221; Johnston? The &#8216;Old School&#8217; is long gone, and the only thing about your players that&#8217;s &#8216;Extreme&#8217; is your Clairol Copper Sunset #14b left on 9 minutes too long. I propose you scrap the downsizing and step down from the presidency. Go back to watching the Lifetime Movie Network- maybe Valerie Bertinelli is getting beat up again. As for me, I&#8217;ll hang up my mallot until the Good Ol&#8217; Boys stop acting like pussies and start playing the game.</p>
<p>- &#8220;The Queen&#8221;</p>
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