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Published 9:48 pm Sunday, August 26, 2012

Buzz’s Rules of Order: The Everett City Council has adopted a set of guidelines for how it runs its meetings. Among the new rules, public comments are limited to three minutes and groups that want to make a presentation must submit an application for approval.

Rules that ultimately were rejected include:

—Members of the public as well as the council can only speak when holding “the talking stick.”

—Joint sessions with the Everett School Board will be advertised in the paper of record as cage matches.

—And anyone wishing to speak on the topic of fluoridated water must get approval from 4 out of 5 dentists who chew gum.

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Call 1-800-I’LL-TELL: A new iPhone app allows parents to keep tabs on their kids’ driving, using bumperstickers that invite other drivers to text and tattle on the young drivers.

A related app allows other drivers to text and tattle on the drivers who are texting while driving to tattle on the kids.

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Party pooper: Tropical Storm Issac, D-Florida Keys, has forced the GOP to postpone events scheduled for today for its national convention in Tampa Bay, Fla., to Tuesday.

Instead, the Republican Party has scheduled a solo marlin fishing trip in the Gulf of Mexico for Missouri Rep. Todd Akin, R-Legitimate Idiot.

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