QUEENS OF THE HO AGE Queen Elizabeth, assorted Spices
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The Spice Girls are primarily to blame for the decline of Western Culture, says British novelist Fay Weldon, the author responsible for such chick-lit masterpieces as The Bulgari Connection, Life and Loves of a She Devil, and The Fat Woman's Joke. Not only are they terrible musicians, she claims, but they spawned a generation of binge drinking, materialistic, STD-addled, sexually promiscuous tanorexics.