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It's been a while since Seattlest extolled the virtue of our hero, Takeru Kobayashi or his sport, competitive eating. Sure, his hot dog eating record was beaten a few weeks back, but he's still our hero, and we still admire his fitness in the face of his professional gluttony.

For weeks we've been waiting for the opportunity to share our latest obsession. Unlike previous obsessions with curling, competitive eating, or most recently Rock Paper Scissors, this obsession is more academic in nature. It concerns the rare, not yet standard punctuation mark known as the interrobang. It combines the exclamation point and the question mark to express both excitement and disbelief. If you've ever said "What!?" then you know how it should be used.

We're sure that like Seattlest, you woke up early on the morning of the 4th of July just to catch Kobayashi defending his title (Kobayashi's our hero). That victory then proved to be inspiration for a day filled with eating, but other than casual conversations, it's been hard to find other people to really discuss the virtues of competitive eating, why Seattle can't call itself world-class without a competition of its own (Dick's cheeseburgers anyone?), or the genius of the "Kobayashi shake." Turns out we've been looking in the wrong spot, since Portland is where the action is.