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• The Ferraro-Mondale ticket has the Reagan-Bush team beat 5-3, though so far we're talking only about syllables.
• If nothing else, a Mondale-Ferraro ticket will outsyllable a Reagan-Bush ticket by two.
• The Hart and Mondale folks have been talking informally to see if they can make a deal, it's reported.
  The good news so far is they've apparently agreed to limit nuclear weapons....
• How can Geraldine Ferraro help balance the ticket? Why, we bet Fritz Mondale outweighs her by 80 pounds.
• Our friend Orly says he figures Mr. Mondale put Ms.
  Ferraro on the ticket just to help him skirt more issues....
• We'll believe the Ferraro-Mondale ticket is really confident about winning the election when we hear it has hired a band for the inaugural ball.
• After she got married, Gerry Ferraro kept her maiden name as a tribute to her mother.
  It's further evidence of how she balances the ticket. Mr. Mondale kept his to honor his father....
• This is an exciting choice," Fritz Mondale says of Gerry Ferraro.
  Well, relatively. More exciting than Lloyd Bentsen, but less than Dolly Parton....
• So far, so good, so what?