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Evidently, the NYTimes is developing a dirty sense of humor, as evidenced by this opening line from an article about gay sex & AIDS<\/a>: “The conversation over tossed salad<\/em>, dinner rolls and iced tea was about dating.”<\/p>\n

I didn’t see any “man-in-the-street” quotes from anyone named Dirty Sanchez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Evidently, the NYTimes is developing a dirty sense of humor, as evidenced by this opening line from an article about gay sex & AIDS: “The conversation over tossed salad, dinner rolls and iced tea was about dating.” I didn’t see any “man-in-the-street” quotes from anyone named Dirty Sanchez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-a5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5469,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/dirty-water-dog","url_meta":{"origin":625,"position":0},"title":"Dirty Water Dog","author":"Gil","date":"July 29, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm taking Thursday and Friday off and having a mini-stay-at-home-vacation. 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