The Column: Dave's World By Dave Barry

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Dave Barry wrote columns for the Daily Local News and for the Miami Herald. For years, he wrote a column that appeared in more than 500 newspapers, which gained some negative attention. Despite the many people that requested Barry be fired for his sarcastic humor in the column, he won a Pulitzer Prize. He has also written more than thirty books and two of his books inspired the show called Dave’s World. I wonder how Barry got started writing humorous pieces and if he has always liked that writing technique. I knew that a real life Barbie was anatomically impossible, but I did not know what the specific dimensions would be.

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