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Must be flex Friday. Good morning.
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Mercy!
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4.1% GDP in the 2nd qtr is outstanding! Hopefully 4+% GDP will be the new norm as opposed to the sub 2% GDP under JugEars.
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I’ve heard the term ‘victory lap’ enough times this morning, I’m still not tired of winning yet. I wonder if the non-FOX/OANN bloviatior press have used the ‘blind squirrel’ term yet. . . . .
We all know that they are loathe to give Trump credit for anything positive; I even heard some idiot briefly mention that even JugEars deserved some credit for this economy. I guess that JugEars holding down the economy with one destructive move after another does help to create some unsatisfied demand and therefore this economy looks so much better by comparison, but that would have worn off by now. This is real growth in jobs and activity and unlike during the reign of the feckless leader with his behind, these numbers may actually have to be adjusted up instead of down. -
Morning gang. Yet another hot and dry day in store out here. The ranchers are out of grass and out of money to buy feed, so look for the herd thinning to begin soon. Not good for either the short or the long term for cow men.
President Trump, much like Reagan, knows that the best way for the American economy to start humming is to get government out of the way and on the sidelines, just raking off a little bit in taxes instead of getting greedy and taking bigger bites out of each deal. It’s not really that hard to just stand on the sidelines and watch, unless you are a do-gooder Dem who thinks they know how to do everything.
I’ll report back later as things develop, meanwhile you all have a great day.
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Morning, chickadees, wow did I get up late today! I was busy yesterday and never got a nap. At all.
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The New York Times and Associated Press both filed requests under the Maryland Public Information Act (PIA) seeking e-mails that Ashley Kavanaugh, the wife of President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, sent as town manager of The Village of Chevy Chase Section 5, according to documents obtained by America Rising Squared (AR2) and shared exclusively with the NTK Network.
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By contrast, The New York Times is currently requesting that The Village of Chevy Chase Section 5 hand over “any emails to or from Ms. Kavanaugh that contain any of the keywords or terms listed below.”
And what a list it is, including words like “liberal,” “abortion,” “gay,” and “federalist,” while also explicitly asking for e-mails containing the names of certain individuals.
HT: Powerline
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Monica Beluga….. pfffffttttttttt
Gimme some good ‘ol Cut-N-Shoot trailer trash with some “meet” (SIC) on them bones.
Conversation differences:
CNSTT- C’mon in honey. How ya doin?
Monica Beluga- You may look at me now.
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Now you’re talking…
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The state of the American university remains precarious for several reasons. College costs and student debt have reached a level beyond which they cannot keep rising indefinitely. Colleges keep expanding their use of badly paid adjunct professors hired after only a perfunctory look at their credentials. These adjuncts increased from about 13 percent of the faculty in 1988 to about 51 percent in 2011; in 2011 another 29 percent were instructors not eligible for tenure, and only 21 percent were tenured professors.
Meanwhile, a growing number of courses are available on the Internet, many for free, raising the question of why students should pay as much as $4,000 for a classroom course when they can take a better course for much less or for nothing. At the same time, many American voters, state legislators, and governors who have a low opinion of professors and their ideas are becoming still more reluctant to subsidize higher education through taxes. Between 1987 and 2012, state and local spending on higher education per full-time student fell by 30.6 percent in constant dollars, while tuition at state and local institutions rose by 100.5 percent.
and this,
Another survey found that the time students spent on homework and classes combined dropped from about forty hours a week in 1961 to about twenty-seven hours a week in 2004; homework alone fell by almost half, from about twenty-four hours a week to just fourteen hours. Most students seemed to regard college mostly as a chance to have fun before having to work at a job or go to professional school. While such students certainly deserve much of the blame for their failure to learn, professors should also be blamed for their lenient demands and easy grading.
The average college student, despite spending so little time studying and learning so little has a grade point average of 3.2 or a high B−. Students at elite colleges, who appear not to study much more than the others, receive still higher grades. Thus, nearly half of college students seem to be studying very little and learning very little—surely not enough to be worth anyone’s spending $100,000 or more for it.
Glenn Reynolds, himself a college professor, has been calling it the Higher Education Bubble for years. Bubbles eventually burst – even if they do it in slow motion. This will not sustain forever.
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Bro Sqk“They say” melons are quite healthy.
High in potassium to help lower blood pressure.I top mine off with a few figs before jogging my 4.:)
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I keep hearing that the 4.1 % GDP is better than it has been in 4 years,…4 YEARS! How could this be since it was never higher than 3 point something in all 8 years of Obama. Well, Rush explained that one quarter in Obama’s term, he cooked the books to come up with phony numbers and had to de-rate it later. I’ve been Googling, but can’t come up with what happened, do any of y’all know or remember?
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I talked to daughter for an hour and a half last night, it’s been a while since I’d talked to her. She went to Smyrna Tennessee, where they have a office pertaining to the Trans-Canadian Pipeline. She observed/helped hire 150 people for that part of the company. Meanwhile in Midland she has hired 44 people in the last few weeks for their tank farm, welders mostly. They’re growing so fast that the company is going to hire two employees to help her. I don’t know if I mentioned this but when they hired her, they were looking for a HR Generalist in Midland and her HR Manager would be in the Woodlands. After a couple of interviews, the company contacted her Ex-boss and she told them about daughter’s work in two different companies that were expanding fast and acquiring new businesses that had to be assimilated. So they decided to make her the HR manager, knowing that they’d be hiring at least one generalist within the year. Did I tell you that I’m proud of daughter?
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Super Dave says:
JULY 27, 2018 AT 12:43 PM
I keep hearing that the 4.1 % GDP is better than it has been in 4 years,…4 YEARS! How could this be since it was never higher than 3 point something in all 8 years of Obama. Well, Rush explained that one quarter in Obama’s term, he cooked the books to come up with phony numbers and had to de-rate it later. I’ve been Googling, but can’t come up with what happened, do any of y’all know or remember?Things always happened unexpectedly when it came to economic news during Obama’s administration.
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There’s always something going on in the trailerhood.
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Great good afternoon Hamsters. Good stuff on the economy front, nay great stuff.
Gonna be fun to see how the LSM tries to hide much of it, especially the pitiful NYT that should have folded by now.
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Are you tired of the same old dumbass comments from SJL, Mad Maxine, demented Pelosi, and their ilk. Well, save up your change you find under the cushions of the couch and donate to this lady to assure her election. She offers an IQ less than any of the above, is in all the way over her head, and is the darling of the Dems – heck she’ll probably be running for President in a year or two. The fun will never end, but first, we’ve got to get her elected and keep her on the front page.
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Metallica song blastin’ out from two trailers down
Its them cut of t-shirt numb chuck kids comin’ around -
#18
From the comments:
Dumb as a bag of Hammers and Sickles.
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I’ll ask the eeeevilll petro chem pushers here this question.
Well played, tight band, good singer, tells a story. Is this a real story of someting made up to sound good. Here’s the relevant part of the lyrics:
Well I was barely thirteen when the company man, tried to dig my daddy’s grave
It happened on a French owned tanker ship, spilling poison in the Galveston Bay
Where the liquid fire filled his lungs and his eyes, silenced any mortal cries
Cold and the grip of death stinging pain, he fought like hell to keep the wolves awayGauging from the looks of the guy, it coulda happened about 30 years ago.
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Super Dave and his Super Wife have raised 2 SUPER CHILDREN, that is for sure! -
It’s knowing that this can’t go on forever
Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone
Maybe we’ll get forty years together
But one day I’ll be gone
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I’ve been Googling, but can’t come up with what happened, do any of y’all know or remember?
The Newspeak press have to perpetually run interference for the first American president to come from Kenya.
The original birther was and still is the The Kenyan.
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#24 Iron Mary, “Super Wife” I’m pretty sure that she was the main reason, I make a much better “daddy” than “father”. 😉
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Attention K Mart Shoppers;…..IT IS HOT!!!….. That is all!
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Glad to see Yall are gettin the Friday GROOVE on early!!
I’m sooooooooooooooooooooo glad I got to see this Lady live!
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Is this a real story of someting made up to sound good.
The lead singer says it’s true:
The song, said lead singer Kevin Galloway, is based on a true story.
“My father was critically injured in a chemical accident when I was a teenager, and it changed things forever for my family and me. We struggled financially for a few years because he was the primary breadwinner up to that time,” Galloway said in an email. “It’s the blue-collar story.”
As to the facts of the accident, who knows? Did the “company man” poison his father deliberately? Was it lack of proper safety protocols that caused the accident? Did his father not follow those protocols and bear some responsibility in the accident? Makes for a good story.
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Was the “company man” responsible for one worker running over and killing another with a fork lift today at the Hipster HEB construction site?
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As I recall, Sarge did some design work on that site. Maybe HE’S responsible? 😉
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We do not malign hipster HEBs. They are right in the middle of my rice bowl. And yah, I did work on that one—
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Putin did it.
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It happened at a Texas-owned grocery
Known in these parts as HEB
Where the Hipsters demand no GMOs
And gluten free beer from their brewery
They fight like hell to keep the wolves away -
Now that there’s lights
On at the HEB in the heights
Will the bias be put aside by Hamous?
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Ya’ll have only got 20 minutes left to see the totality of that blood moon something or another total lunar eclipse. I had to jump online to find it for my mom so she could show my youngest and several of his cousins.
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In the parking lot of the HEB
He got run over by a PIT
The company man had nothing to say
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PIT = Powered Industrial Truck aka forklift
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It was the responsibility of the guy (now dead) on the ground guiding the lift driver to stay in the driver’s line of sight at all times. That said, the operator should have stopped immediately once he couldn’t see him.
There are times when equipment fails or incompetent or corrupt contractors fail to follow safe procedures, but most of the industrial accidents I’ve seen involved sloppiness or carelessness on the part of the people directly involved.
And this is why I never became a personal injury lawyer.
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Although, if the forklift was carrying any steel building components, Sarge should be included in the wrongful death suit as a defendant. That’s social justice…especially if he voted for Trump.
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Breaking News…
(2018-07-27) — Just a day after a federal judge ordered Wisconsin to use Medicaid money to fund sex-reassignment surgery for patients suffering “gender dysphoria”, another court said the same about race-reassignment procedures and therapies.
Both decisions aim to force the federal healthcare program for the poor, which is administered by the states, into compliance with the Affordable Care Act — the act formerly known as Obamacare.
Pigment dysphoria is a crippling condition that sets people at odds with their own visual, cultural and historical identification, according to experts. It can make a light-skinned woman who identifies as dark-skinned, for example, feel like a person without a racially-motivated social group. The condition is universal, afflicting all persons without regard to race, sex, or political affiliation.
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8 Squawk
Thelma Lou, your Cut-N-Shoot Trailer Trash gal, needs one of those LifeAlert devices.
Help, I’ve fallen down and I can’t get up because I’m so top heavy !
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The Texas Version.
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I figure Gracie has hit 90% of those now. -
It was the responsibility of the guy (now dead) on the ground guiding the lift driver to stay in the driver’s line of sight at all times.
Also to stay well clear of the machine and the load.
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You may have your doubts, but my head is no match for a backhoe bucket.
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The story says nothing about the forklift operator carrying a load. On a construction sight, construction vehicles have the right away always, loaded or not. You gotta stay clear of them.
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Texpat
I saw “King” OJ Riley for the first time in years. He asked about you. -
A bit Country Legend-dy, but a good, sad tune.
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I wondered how one gets caught between the front and and back wheel of a forklift. Then I saw the picture in one of the links. That is a type for lifting loads up to upper floors and roofs. If I were the spotter, I’d make sure where i was when the operator was looking up. Those things are rather agile to operate. The front/rear wheels can steer in opposite directions and the machine turns in a circle, lock in the same direction and crab walk, or turn as front wheel steering.
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Well, following around these linkeys I ran across this tribute to Buck Owens at his funeral. Touching.
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A bit Country Legend-dy, but a good, sad tune.
For the last 40+ years there are two songs that make me laugh every time I hear them. My senior year in high school I dated one girl, broke up with her and dated another, then went back to the first one for prom. One’s name was Linda and the other was Lisa (although she spelled it Lesa). When I was dating Lesa, we were in a restaurant one night and she played Conway Twitty’s “Linda on my Mind” on a jukebox. After I went back to Linda, she played “I’m Not Lisa” on a jukebox one night. True story.
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#51
Yes sir, it is a reach forklift, or telehandler we call them. 26 or 30″ tires.
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Alls I know is it’s the “company man’s” fault.
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LOL, that’s what started what I heard, Michael Berry said when he runs across a women named Linda, his head goes straight to “Linda on my Mind”, same with Lisa.
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#44 & #45 – well I might say ‘most’ but not all…………..
here’s the motorcycle version!
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Also to stay well clear of the machine and the load.
Sometimes that just isn’t possible for the man in the hole working around a backhoe. I was fortunate to work around one of the best operators ever.
But there was another guy I wouldn’t go near. Too squirrelly for me.
I wasn’t supposed to be in the hole at all all those years, but sometimes I just couldn’t stand around and watch on the difficult jobs. Eventually I just wasn’t physically able. So I became the worlds greatest gofer. In retrospect, the contractor had a free helper But we could knock out three or four easier leaks before noon. I just wanted it DONE. -
I saw it in just a flash, now it’s gone! But I KNOW I saw it!
Kent A. Vining Likes Beto O’Rourke
😯
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Confirmed!
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#29, Sure wish she would play south of Dosey Doe. She has really expanded her range from belting rock to soul.
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😛 😛
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I’m sure it’s just recon!
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Change of pace. Sort of on topic.
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Fake news!
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My favorite Spirit song.
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houndmouth
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I wondered how one gets caught between the front and and back wheel of a forklift. Then I saw the picture in one of the links. That is a type for lifting loads up to upper floors and roofs. If I were the spotter, I’d make sure where i was when the operator was looking up. Those things are rather agile to operate. The front/rear wheels can steer in opposite directions and the machine turns in a circle, lock in the same direction and crab walk, or turn as front wheel steering.
Its a tough jobsite, bounded on all sides by streets—and no parking lot. The entire ground level is “covered parking”—the store itself is built on what would be the second floor.
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One of Spirit’s better known hits.
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Note to self:
Change Facebook password.
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Spy ducks have outed Sarge. Who will be next. Only the shadow spy duck knows.
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It really does now look like President Donald J. Trump, and markets are plunging. When might we expect them to recover?
Frankly, I find it hard to care much, even though this is my specialty. The disaster for America and the world has so many aspects that the economic ramifications are way down my list of things to fear.
Still, I guess people want an answer: If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never.
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Now comes the mother of all adverse effects — and what it brings with it is a regime that will be ignorant of economic policy and hostile to any effort to make it work. Effective fiscal support for the Fed? Not a chance. In fact, you can bet that the Fed will lose its independence, and be bullied by cranks.So we are very probably looking at a global recession, with no end in sight. I suppose we could get lucky somehow. But on economics, as on everything else, a terrible thing has just happened. — Krugtron the Invincible, November 9, 2016
It never gets old. Ever.
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DJIA on November 8, 2016 – 18,332.43
DJIA on July 27, 2018 – 25,451.06 -
DJIA on November 8, 2016 – 18,332.43
DJIA on July 27, 2018 – 25,451.06Putin did it.
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I’m reverting back to my days at Mary Bryan Elementary School.
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Rumor has it Putin played Eddie Haskell on LITB.
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Putin discovered America.
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Putin was once a magician and founded MTV.
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Hammy, were your GFs Linda and Lesa aware of each other? That wasn’t clear in your story. Were those jukebox selections intentional or just coincidence? -
Putin was voted most likely to meddle in the middle of the kitty in a diddle.
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Putin starred in JCS as one of the 12 Apostles.
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Putin really was the 5th Beatle.
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Putin is the God of Thunder.
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Kiss ripped this off from Putin.
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The Eagles ripped off Putin too.
He originally wrote Hotel Leningradskaya
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Putin killed the blog.
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Hammy, were your GFs Linda and Lesa aware of each other? That wasn’t clear in your story. Were those jukebox selections intentional or just coincidence?
I grew up in a very small farming community. My graduating class was 67 students. Linda and Lesa were very aware of each other and the selections were most definitely intentional.
Lesa went to the prom that year with my best friend who didn’t have a car. Guess who they rode with. Strangely enough, Linda and Lesa were roommates for a while after we graduated.
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Linda
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Lesa
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Lesa had red, red hair. Everywhere.
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If GJT leased that forklift for the HEB job he’s on the hook for big money. You know he has to be guilty. He’s just got that look on his face.
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Hamous is not really reminiscing about former girlfriends. He’s ruminating on hair long lost. 🙂
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Heh. You know that used to bother me. Since I started shaving my head I haven’t missed that hair at all. If they came up with a cure for baldness and it was a one time treatment with no side effects and I could grow a full head of hair, I’d still shave my head.
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Oh, yeah, Lesa.
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Ninety Nine?
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Second!
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