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Use it or Lose it.

Here is the scene: breakfast table, Mountain Dew, a napkin serving as a plate, and the cupcake package. Gotta read something – but I’ve been examining the Dew ingredients list for a quarter of a century. Or more.

On the cupcake package it says, “Best if used by December 20, 2010.”

Used?

I said to myself, mouth full of cake, “what will I use it for?” What do they mean, “use” the cake? Isn’t it made to be eaten? Are they interchangable terms? “What are you doing for the holidays? Wanna come over and use some dinner?”

It does sound a little awkward to print on the label, “Best eaten by…,” but they could have gone with another tack, like “fresh through December…”

In trying to think up uses for the tasty cakes, I came up with nothing I can list here…but I’m thinking about lunch already.

Might use a burger.

Second language? Try it!

No longer is the dual-language dictionary the only way to go! Audio CDs make it easy to learn a second language even while driving in the car (safer than texting while behind the wheel, too!). Spanish in stock and others may be special ordered. We still have the dictionaries, as well, in a number of languages in stock.

Bilinguals in Spanish can practice reading skills with the launch of the new Tulsa hispanic community website, Tulsa Hispano. Articles appear in both English and Spanish. Read and learn, in more ways than one!

Check it out at http://tulsahispanic.com

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