Mary Jane; Corker

[Art Goodtimes]

On 30 Dec 2004 at 12:49, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

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> Greetings from my last lunch hour of the year.
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> MARY JANE--Marijuana. No big stretch there. What I added to the ADS-L
> archives is that a candy called "Mary Jane" was  also popular at this
> time in American history.
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> CORKER--
> 30 December 2004, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, pg. 35, col. 3, "On the City"
> by Richard Schwartz:
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> What's a corker? Rest assured it has nothing to do with the champagne
> bottle you'll open tomorrow night. But corkers will be at work this
> New Year's Eve when thousands of cyclists are expected to bottle up
> traffic during their freewheeling Critical Mass ride through the
> streets of Manhattan.
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> Corkers, for the record, are the advance teams of cyclists who "cork"
> or block crosstown traffic so that Critical Massers can wheel the
> light fantastic up Park Ave., down Broadway or wherever their free
> spirits carry them.