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Al Sicherman

Uncle Al

Al Sicherman was a copy editor, food writer and humor columnist for the Star Tribune. He has a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology and much work toward an MA in journalism from the University of Minnesota. (He didn't finish his thesis. You wouldn't have either.)

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Verse or Worse

Here's hoping... for antioxidant-rich foodstuff

By Al Sicherman | 12/22/07
Given the great wisdom that (along with ear hair) age has brought me, I have learned to hope for little and to expect even less. And even then I am usually disappointed.
Verse or Worse

Cluck-cluck: a new spin on age-old chicken joke

By Al Sicherman | 12/21/07
The judgment of MinnPost readers has been rendered, along with quite a bit of chicken fat.
Verse or Worse

Poultry in Motion: Pluck the chicken-fat prize-winner from these five

By Al Sicherman | 12/17/07
I was really worried going into the final hours of the Verse or Worse competition involving writing a headline about a highway covered with chicken fat, when it seemed to me that, under all the old mail in my spiffy MinnPost email inbox, there wer
Verse or Worse

Done Roveing

By Al Sicherman | 12/10/07
In their great collective wisdom, Verse or Worse readers have made their decision.
Verse or Worse

Name the column-naming champ: Who gets the Roving title?

By Al Sicherman | 12/03/07
Something of a pattern is developing in the fascinating world of the MinnPost Verse or Worse contest.
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Digiti populi

By Al Sicherman | 11/26/07
The people have e-mailed: The unspeakably wonderful MinnPost T-shirt, for the best limerick about the Finnish musicians' trouble at the airport, goes to Jill Field. Here's the winning entry again, in all its immigration-related splendor:
Verse or Worse

Five Finn-flareup finalists: Vote for the verse victor

By Al Sicherman | 11/19/07
For a while there it looked as if the first Verse or Worse challenge was either too hard or too easy for MinnPost's witerati: On Day One we got only two entries. But eventually the possibility of winning an inestimably valuable MinnPost T-shirt fo
Verse or Worse

Starting at the Finnish

By Al Sicherman | 11/12/07
To keep your fingers limber as another Minnesota winter approaches, MinnPost will hold a writing competition of sorts every two weeks.