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Although there was no joke in the print edition of the newspaper, the staff shared great laughs in the newsroom on April Fools Day.The recruitment editor, Phillip, has an aversion for all things sour. The joke began in January when I began bringing sour Starbursts to our weekly staff meeting. Each week thereafter, other desk editors brought bags of sour Starbursts and other sour candies to the Monday meetings, until we called a truce with Phillip in February. The sour candy disappeared from the office … and also from most Athens stores.For the past few days, most of the desk editors have been looking at convenience stores, drug stores and grocery stores around town for the sour Starbursts. It turned out that during the past month, most local stores took the sour treats off their shelves because they weren’t selling, so a manager at Wal-Mart told me. I finally found the candy at CVS and purchased every bag in the store.Today I cleaned off Phillip’s desk — hid papers, stapler, phone. It was all replaced with hundreds of sour Starbursts, sour Skittles and sour Airheads. The office reeked of the sour candy. When he came into the newsroom this afternoon, and saw his newly decorated desk, of course he freaked out and began a 10 minute tirade about the prank.For the rest of the semester we likely will have our lips puckered as we eat the sour Starbursts, but it was well worth the laughs.— Juanita, jcousins@randb.com
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