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Hondo back in the sulky

Hondo made a fine Mid-Summer score in the All-Star Game Tuesday night in Minneapolis, clicking with Jeter and the Junior Circuit to reduce the NRN (nasty red number) to 1,210 lebowskis.

Wednesday: Mr. Aitch will take another shot at Monticello Raceway with two units to win on Famous Dude in the third. Check out tomorrow’s editions to see if the “Dude” abides.


Back by popular demand, it’s one final burst of All-Star Break Wind. In the epilog to Hondo’s series on the medicinal benefits of smelling farts, which was revealed in a study by the University of Exeter, living proof of the hypothesis is offered with the following: a) Doctors expect William Shatner, who’s infamously flatulent, to live to be 130; b) Emauler Ed Buckmir points out that Nancy Grace, who blasted on “Dancing With The Stars” a few years ago, has twins who more than likely are the two healthiest kids in the country; c) Brazilian Jose Aguinelo dos Santos turned 126 last week and reportedly is in terrific health, despite smoking a pack of cigarettes a day for the last 50 years. There can be only one explanation for his longevity: No, it’s not that he never married; it’s that he is an inveterate inhaler of the human emission.