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I paid good money for this monstrosity!

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I was going through my old "computer emergency" suitcase and found the manual to my old monitor... I paid (lots of) money and happily lugged this thing home. Back in my day, monitors were huge and ugly. And we liked it that way.

Super Duper Mart - clean up on aisle, uh, one...

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Someone on eBaY was peddling this old cardboard toy that billed itself as a "super duper mart". I didn't know the practice of adding "duper" to "super" started that long ago. It's kind of a ripoff, the thing isn't fit to pretend to be a mall kiosk. It looks like taller kids couldn't use it, which is just as well, they would have been more interested in shooting it up with their Daisy BB rifles. You could make some satisfying holes in that coated cardboard. Anyway, this aspiring merchant should keep a close eye on the shopper. She could hide the entire produce department under that skirt.

Say cheese, and I don't mean Limburger

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NORMALLY I don't post "family" stuff here; Leave us face it, if you don't know our family, it's like watching someone else's home movies of their trip to see the World's Largest Ball of Rubber Bands. Today I must break that rule. I was tickled to discover that daughter Daphne and her friends found a modern-day version of one of those "photo booths". Don't they look like they're having an absolute blast?

Exciting new product!

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We get all kinds of offers from suppliers all over the world, but this one caught my eye; Just about 35 years late on that one, guys.