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rain_gryphonSo, Blackburn are now tied in points with Wigan, although Wigan are still ahead on goal differential. Shrewsbury has only one point on both of 'em. Lots of time left, but it's looking better and better.
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There's a special word for a library which contains one work. It's known as a "book".
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My kitchen sink clogged. I took myself to Meijer's, thinking to buy a plunger. Well, Meijer's had at least three different brands of plungers, in five different models, but each and every one of them was a toilet plunger, the sort with the cone-shaped bottom, which is useless for a sink, where you need the flat-bottomed design. Wal-Mart had two models only, but they carried both kinds - a toilet plunger and a sink plunger.
I wonder now if Meijer's is letting their suppliers decide what to put on the shelf. That used to always be a problem at this tiny little grocery store in Mentone (a tiny farm town where I used to live). They would have, say, three different brands of pizza, but because the store was tiny, they had only room for one variety of each brand. They had some sort of deal where the salesmen decided what to put out, and inevitably, they each put out something that was as close as possible to what their competitor was displaying, so that you had a "choice" among three different brands of rising-crust pepperoni pizza, say. It's hard to believe that it was being done from sheer perversoty since they wanted to sell stuff, but it certainly looked like it from a consumer standpoint.
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There's a special word for a library which contains one work. It's known as a "book".
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My kitchen sink clogged. I took myself to Meijer's, thinking to buy a plunger. Well, Meijer's had at least three different brands of plungers, in five different models, but each and every one of them was a toilet plunger, the sort with the cone-shaped bottom, which is useless for a sink, where you need the flat-bottomed design. Wal-Mart had two models only, but they carried both kinds - a toilet plunger and a sink plunger.
I wonder now if Meijer's is letting their suppliers decide what to put on the shelf. That used to always be a problem at this tiny little grocery store in Mentone (a tiny farm town where I used to live). They would have, say, three different brands of pizza, but because the store was tiny, they had only room for one variety of each brand. They had some sort of deal where the salesmen decided what to put out, and inevitably, they each put out something that was as close as possible to what their competitor was displaying, so that you had a "choice" among three different brands of rising-crust pepperoni pizza, say. It's hard to believe that it was being done from sheer perversoty since they wanted to sell stuff, but it certainly looked like it from a consumer standpoint.
