It sounds like the setup for a joke, as God only knows what freakish mollusks lurk in that fetid post-industrial waterway.

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"The joke is, thank God aspirin is around, because you'd never get it on the market these days, " says Pharmacia's Ando.

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Southerners have a joke: Mercedes station wagons and wearing mink in Texas are God's way of telling you that you have too much money.

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