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Category: Features

Posted on December 12, 2004April 2, 2017

Blue Christmas in the Red Zone

ImageRed Zone/Blue Zone jokes were never really funny. And today as Paris expats head to their former homes in the Deep Rouge of Duluth and Denver, Dallas and Detroit to share the holidays with family and friends the bittersweet irony of color-coded bad blagues causes high anxiety among the chronically transcultural. Continue reading “Blue Christmas in the Red Zone”

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