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Mark Gauert

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National award-winning humor columnist. (I know, that sounds funny to me too.) Founding editor of the South Florida Sun Sentinel’s City & Shore, PRIME and Explore Florida & the Caribbean magazines. https://www.sun-sentinel.com/city-and-shore/

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Thanks for the repost!

13.10.2025 19:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you for reposting!

13.10.2025 18:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you for reposting!

13.10.2025 18:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@dailyrotation.bsky.social thanks for reposting!

13.10.2025 14:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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When hotel and cruise cabin towel and linen sculptures go too far.
www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/10/12/w...

12.10.2025 15:38 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
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Don't miss the big travel issue, coming up this weekend in print, online and convenient take-along-for-the-ride digital.

www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/10/09/d...

10.10.2025 14:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Who are the kids in my yard, and why can’t I get rid of them? | Commentary At first I thought the little scrap of paper in my front yard was one of those notices the lawn-care people stick in the neighbor’s yard when they spray for bugs. It’s about the same size as one of…

The rest of the story about the photo I found in my yard.
www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/10/05/w...

05.10.2025 14:42 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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When in Milan, you’ve got to get the risotto – even during a pandemic | Commentary Everybody said to get the risotto. Just maybe not now. “You’re going … to Europe?” they said. “I am,” I said. “Now?” they said. “During ……

From the archives: I wonder if we'll ever look back on 2021 with anything close to nostalgia. Socially distanced nostalgia.
www.sun-sentinel.com/2021/08/03/w...

03.10.2025 20:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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If it seems we’re almost a weekly magazine these days, it’s because we are! Next up, “The Arts Issue,” www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/10/02/c...

02.10.2025 18:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Loved the layout of the column in yesterday’s paper.

www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/09/12/t...

29.09.2025 14:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Quick sips: Two California cabernets that won’t leave you sideways We save wines sometimes for special occasions. Sometimes we save them too long. Remember poor Miles Raymond in “Sideways,” for example, opening the 1961 Château Cheval Blanc he’d been s…

Heartbreaking. And not just because of the styrofoam.
www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/09/19/q...

19.09.2025 19:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The best restaurants know why we go out to restaurants | Commentary The waiter has disappeared, the bread he left in the basket on the table is cold and stiff, and the restaurant is so loud we take out our phones and text. “Why do we even go to restaurants?” my wif…

Din and Bear it. www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/09/07/t...

07.09.2025 13:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Dolphins in the sunset off Islamorada, #FloridaKeys.

06.08.2025 23:15 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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When I leave Florida (someday), I will miss Florida. There, I’ve said it.

06.08.2025 23:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Apologies to anyone currently experiencing “heat dome.” #iceland #kirkjufell

30.07.2025 21:52 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I divert my attention for 10 minutes, and all I have left are photos of the pretty purple orchid, the crime scene and a blurry rendering of the culprit. #iguanadon

26.07.2025 17:20 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you, Robyn!

11.07.2025 21:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I know, this sounds funny to me too. Thank you kindly SPJ “Green Eyeshade” Awards, honoring “the best journalism across the Southeastern United States”!

11.07.2025 18:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I didn’t know they made top hats that small!

03.07.2025 11:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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For years I’ve occasionally heard the tinest sounds in the background in South Florida. Like a tiny creaking or croaking or cricket-leg scratch. I’d look around though, and there was never anything there. Yesterday, I think I finally found the source of the noises in my head. The littlest bigfoot!

01.07.2025 21:40 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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No. 1 on ‘Wine Spectator’ Top 100 list maybe worth a little tooth decay My dentist had said I should brush my teeth every day. “Every day?” I said. “Every day,” she said. “Every tooth?” I said. “Well, no,’’ she said. “Only the ones you want to keep.’’ My dentist is fun…

I was so nervous the day I tried No. 1 on the 'Wine Spectator' Top 100 list, I didn’t brush my teeth, shower or shave. Such is the dedication I bring to my role as a former honorary wine judge. www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/06/19/n...

19.06.2025 18:00 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tale of two city-sized cruise ships: NCL’s Aqua and MSC’s World America Two big ships – NCL’s Aqua and MSC’s World America – passed recently at PortMiami, and surpassed expectations.

Tale of two city-sized cruise ships: NCL's Aqua and MSC's World America www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/06/09/t...

16.06.2025 18:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Have a good time out there this summer, whatever may come | Commentary Here’s the thing about going somewhere completely different for a summer vacation: Sometimes you bump into things that are completely different. And sometimes they bump into you with cartoon-moose …

Here’s the thing about going somewhere completely different for a summer vacation: Sometimes you bump into things that are completely different. And sometimes they bump into you with cartoon-moose antlers. www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/06/08/h...

09.06.2025 21:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Come in and cool off with the Summer Issue, this weekend in print, online and humidity-proof digital, www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/06/05/c...

05.06.2025 20:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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My second time snorkeling since that unpleasantness with a bull shark off Key Largo 25 years ago. All good. www.sun-sentinel.com/2022/11/17/o... #parquenacionalbahiadeloreto

30.05.2025 16:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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For those planning seat-back tray guac on the flight back from Loreto, Mexico. Know before you go.

30.05.2025 13:23 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

Limited.

30.05.2025 03:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Location, location, libation. #loretomexico

30.05.2025 03:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Cross the Sea of Cortez.

26.05.2025 22:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A postcard from the sunrise side of Islamorada in the Florida Keys The Islander Resort on Islamorada is a place to go when you want to get away, but not all the way away. You’d need a passport and at least one plane ticket to find a beach as wide and nice as the o…

A postcard from the sunrise side of Islamorada in the Florida Keys www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/05/23/a...

26.05.2025 15:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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