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Bad jokes plague Texas woman named 'Sarah Palin'

Time magazine scored an interview with Sarah Palin (no, not the former Alaska governor). Sarah Beth Palin, a 20-year-old University of Texas at Austin junior, tells the magazine what it has been like sharing such a famous, and now copyrighted, name. Basically, the jokes, mistaken emails and social-media friend requests started in 2008 when Sen. McCain picked the elder Palin as his running mate, and though the spam has dwindled, the jokes have kept coming. And they're repetitive and pretty lame, according to Sarah Beth, "Every time [Sarah Louise] opens her mouth I get attention. And now everyone's making the same joke — asking me if I'm going to run in 2012. I'm like, 'Wow, that's really original. I definitely haven't heard that one before.'" Read much more, here.

Craig Medred

Craig Medred is a former writer for the Anchorage Daily News, Alaska Dispatch and Alaska Dispatch News. He left the ADN in 2015.

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