MINOR SPORT BORE NOW SUCCEEDS IN SCARING KIDS TOO! SoCal’s AAU Sportsletter introduces us to my new favorite another-European-sport-which-doesn’t-translate-here mascot: “Meet Chabala, the official mascot of the 2007 Women’s World Team Handball Championship, to be held in France, December 2 – 16.”
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What’s a more frightening prospect, a plaster-based feline caricature with a head the size of George Wendt scaring children witless inside outdated pan-European multipurpose
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On the bright side, the word “Chabala” may inspire the more adventurous bakers among us to somehow invent the technology to combine two of my favor starch-based foods: Challah and Ciabatta breads:
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