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Tater's the second one to blame.


Marlene used to work over to the ... well, never you mind. Don't want none of you a stalkin her. Anyhows, she used to work for this company doin public relations for em... was in charge of a bunch of folks puttin out press releases, magazines, doin government relations (lobbyin!) and such, and from time to time they was some kinda crisis where someone was in hot water for somethin or other, and she had to cool things down. So Marlene got real good at it. One of the things she did was when they was a blame layin frenzy, she would just jump in and say "I'll take the blame for that one. Just tell them to come talk to me." And even though she didn't have nothin to do with it, she'd just say that so that folks could move on and start gettin things done instead of snipin and gripin. Kind of a psychological trick. This trick got her a lot of respect from the higher ups, on account of it was so effective, and so by takin the blame she got lots of credit. That Marlene's a smart gal. That's why Tater's a chasin after her. And also because of the cute way she says "This here's Marlene Meekers with the news!"