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Shoes

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Absolutely the best thing I’ve read summarising the shoe throwing incident:
Throw a shoe at me once, shame on — you. Throw a shoe — you throw a shoe, you can’t throw a shoe again.
Thanks, 23/6.

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Book hunting from NZ

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

So, I know how it is.  You’re in NZ, hardcover books cost $50 upwards.  Yuck.  Want to get some of that cheap book lovin’ available overseas?  Sure you do.  But Amazon wants to charge much $ for postage, and it’s going to take 18-32 days to ship unless you pay for more expensive methods.
Hint: go [...]

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