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So easy to say, so hard to do. If you were going to do

Posted By: MTSO on 2005-12-19
In Reply to: you can bet if I did start my own, I'd send something for the holidays. - Ba Humbug

it, you would have already. It is so much easier to bash companies and service owners than to do it yourself. Just like armchair quarterbacks. If you had the time and talent to do it better yourself, wouldn't you?



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