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Evidence that our children are drinking too much caffeine

I received a couple of cards from a couple of Dodger fans recently that are really making me question the mental sharpness of our youth. Sure, these cards are from over 20 years ago, but are we really seeing more intelligent kids coming out of our classrooms today? (I have no facts to back up this sweeping implication). Look at this card. Someone is seriously deficient in the paper-cutting arts. This is some sort of National Highway Traffic Safety card. It's slightly smaller than your average card, and that's before someone took a screwdriver, or whatever inadequate tool  it was, to cut the card out. I'll give the youngster passing grades for the top edge and even the left edge (which looks suspiciously O-Pee-Chee-ish). But things went a little haywire on the right side and the bottom. It looks like he/she even bent the card in the cutting process. This card was sent to me by Spiegel . I hope he didn't pay anything for it. Here is a card sent to me by Greg ...