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As if going to the dentist isn’t scary enough — what with all those outdated waiting-room magazines and those stainless steel instruments of torture and the dental hygienists who ask you questions while they’re carving God-knowswhat into your choppers — you can also worry about whether that dentist is a fake.

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The iconic Gold Dome building at N.W. 23rd Street and Classen Boulevard soon may be sold to the highest bidder in a foreclosure sale, The Oklahoman reported.

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Although the name suggests an eating disorder, YouPurge’s only interest is vomit of a verbal nature. For only $10, the Oklahoma City-based phone line promises to provide a pair of “listening ears” for you to pour out all that pent-up frustration for 10 minutes.

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Lots of press releases cross our desk. Recently, these titles least screamed “Stop the presses!”

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Do you ever wonder where all those five-star book reviews on Amazon come from? Who exactly declared that one self-published Christian paranormal romance with the Comic Sans cover typefaces to be not just great, but “astonishingly great”?

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Nothing quite celebrates the birth of the Christ child like the taste of marijuana!

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For many Oklahomans, a government official telling people that their government is incompetent and can’t do anything right is so common, the irony was drained right out of it long ago. But every once in a while, the uninitiated get an earful of it and grow bewildered when trying to square platitudes with reality.

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The University of Central Oklahoma gave a whole new meaning to a thumbs-up last week with its unofficial record-breaking thumb-war chain.

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When our fair state beats out the other 49 for the top spot on a list, we celebrate. So break out the bubbly: Oklahoma has the most payday-advance borrowers in the U.S.!

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Hey, Sooner Nation: There’s a guy in Michigan you might want to put on your Christmas card mailing list this year. Kyle Meinke, who covers football for annarbor.com, was the only voter in the Associated Press Top 25 football preseason poll to give the first-place nod to the University of Oklahoma.

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We at CFN have always figured that one reason Sen. Jim Inhofe enjoys such strong voter support is that a hefty chunk of the electorate shares his views that manmade climate change is rubbish, rubbish and more rubbish.

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Who would have believed the state House district that spawned Randy Terrill would be ground zero for one of the nastiest primary campaigns in the state?

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Something tells us Roy Johnson would’ve loved Fifty Shades of Grey, especially in the bathroom. That’s because the Healdton oilman and Ardmore newspaper publisher, who died in 1960, left behind a prized possession that novelist Larry McMurtry just unloaded for $2,750.

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The Republican presidential ticket has some Oklahoma flair, thanks to the wife of vice presidential nominee U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan. Janna Little Ryan grew up in Madill and is a first cousin to U.S. Rep. Dan Boren, D-Muskogee.