That team had the game won, but they coughed it up in the end.

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Its male residents dress like crows: heavy black suits, black Borsalino hats, the old grandfathers hugely whiskered and the boys in peot, the curled sidelocks of the pious.

That's a tall order for a squirrel brained woman who recently asked a black president to refutiate the NAACP (though I kinda like refutiate, myself).