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Poem: A Ham Sandwich Walks Into A Bar…

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Simon Sweetman
Nov 21, 2018
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The old joke has it that if Karen Carpenter and Mama Cass had just shared the same ham sandwich they’d both be alive today.

It’s hilarious – because one of them was rather thin, the other not so much.

they both died due to conditions of the heart.

(I’ve no idea where the ham sandwich rumour came from, but people love to talk about Cass Elliott choking on t…

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