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Allegedly, there is a state law in Alabama and Kentucky that makes carrying an ice cream cone in one’s pocket illegal.

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The Dr. Oz Show Clever ways to put money in one’s pocket; from chronic fatigue to joint pain, autoimmune diseases.

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Carrying a smartphone in one’s pocket makes it possible to connect with people and record police behavior.

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For a certain subset of women in their 20s and 30s, Tolentino is a household name, an imaginary best friend whose wise, probing essays and cheerful stoner Twitter persona brought us to the women’s general interest blog The Hairpin, a sort of wacky little sister to The Awl, during the heyday of pleasantly idiosyncratic online publishing that took place in the late 2000s, when the pre-smartphone internet felt more like a friendly place for weirdos than a persistent, eternally accessible obligation residing in one’s pocket.

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“Taken as a whole, the most natural reading of the disclosure warns that carrying a cellphone in one’s pocket is unsafe,” she wrote.

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