Does your busy
schedule keep you from enjoying a forty-five minute wait in the grocery
store check-out line every week? Never fear; Toad a la Mode herewith
presents
The Most Popular Women's Magazine Feature Articles
of the '90's:
A Toad a la Mode Culture and Society Survey
The following headlines, or variants
thereof, were documented in over 50% of the four most widely-circulated
women's magazine for the years 1990-1999. Variants are classified
according to Propp's 31 Functions of Domestic Periodical Non-Fiction.
Recipe Bonus: May Means Pork!
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Plus: Fudgey Brownies
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Chunky Fudge
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Chewy Fudge Brownie Chunks
Spectacular Butter-Fat Jubilee Cake!
Lose Weight Fast: Our New "I Love Lemons" Diet
Really Works!
Keep Tabs on your Cheating Husband for Pennies a
Day
Ten Tricks with Frozen Dough
How Taking an Aspirin a Day can Make You Immortal
Easy Ways to Stretch your Budget: Child Labor-Law
Loopholes 
Is that Hangnail a Deadly Warning Sign?
Make Our Slightly Irregular Sweater:
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Cozy!
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Cute!
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Perfect for Friends with Extra Arms!
How to Save Your Marriage, Make New Friends, and
Help a Starving Child on the Internet
Decorate for Arbor Day!
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Bedeck a Gazebo!
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Wallpaper a Lanai!
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Glue Little Shiny Beads on Something!
Heartwarming thoughts on
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Joy
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Friendship
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Angels
Learn more interesting facts
about our society at the Toad a la Mode archive.