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Published: Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009

Bill Morem: It’s only Greek to a job-hunting geek

For those of you who don’t indulge in crossword puzzles, the definition of a “roscoe” is an often-used six-across clue that’s an archaic name for a gangster’s revolver or gat.

Published: Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009

Bill Morem: Here Fido, try this on for size

This is one for all you dog owners out there: Have you ever taken Puddles to a friend’s house and, to your horror, she lives up to her name by piddling a puddle on your host’s living room carpet?

    Published: Saturday, Aug. 15, 2009

    Bill Morem: It’s raining cats and … snakes?

    You just never know what you’re going to run into at County Animal Services.

    Published: Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009

    Bill Morem: Nipomo man caught in a Kafka-like nightmare

    If you’re of a certain age and read Al Capp’s “Li’l Abner” in the comic strips, you may recall a character named Joe Btfsplk, a sweet guy who was so jinxed that he perpetually walked around with a dark cloud over his head.

      Published: Saturday, Aug. 08, 2009

      Bill Morem: Auto culprits drive readers to ire land

      In a recent column about grudges — which I’ve now been educated are actually pet peeves rather than grudges — I asked readers to send me their own after the piece I wrote about road hogs on Los Osos Valley Road. The following are just a few culled from the mailbag.

      Published: Thursday, Aug. 06, 2009

      Bill Morem: Reflecting on faith with the arrival of a new pastor

      I grew up in a San Luis Obispo neighborhood that included a married priest — Father Anthony Kubek, a Hungarian immigrant who practiced Eastern Catholicism.

        Published: Thursday, Jul. 30, 2009

        Bill Morem: How did Gail Wilcox and David Edge find time to run the county?

        Cue the “Father Knows Best” theme.

        Published: Saturday, Jul. 25, 2009

        Bill Morem: Trafficking in grade-A grudges

        My mother, for all of her wonderful traits and qualities, had one fault that was so indelible, so obvious to others that she eventually grudgingly acknowledged … she could carry a grudge.

        Published: Thursday, Jul. 23, 2009

        Bill Morem: Helping needy runs in this teen’s family

        To say 14-year-old Meghan Martin has healthy doses of compassion and humanity running through her veins is a vast understatement, if her recent actions to help the homeless using the Prado Day Center are any indication.

        Published: Saturday, Jul. 18, 2009

        Bill Morem: Cambria’s cast gets even more colorful

        So there I was, sitting at the desk of The Cambrian editor Bert Etling, performing a few weeks of vacation relief at our sister weekly, when Methuselah entered the newsroom.

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