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If you don't think you're going to quit for good, might be better to keep on smoking. The plural of anecdote may not be data but there's ample anecdotes of folks who smoke 2 packs a day constantly from age 15 to age 85 with nary a medical blip; and equally potentially spurious but intriguing evidence on the other side that ping-ponging between smoker and non-smoker is worse than continuously smoking. Peter Jennings seemed to think that after 2 decades off of cigarettes taking up smoking again post-911 activated or whatever his quickly fatal lung cancer: https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/son-abc-anch ... d=12156117

Dead Again! Underrated movie. Emma Thompson was hot back then. And who knew Newman was good friends with two Shakespearean actors?

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Probably b/c William Goldman's in the news, but I was thinking that scene was from Good Will Hunting; which Goldman's rumored to have either ghost-written or touched up Affleck & Damon's script. Bit o' googling led me to Dead Again's IMDB.

Medical advice from people on message boards.

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Some places definitely do this. If you frequent the places enough you'll know which ones are increasing their prices by 30% or more. I'm not lazy enough where I want to pay an extra $5 for the food and $5 for delivery.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

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It was expensive, but I'm too lazy to return it.

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I just did this yesterday. Fortunately, the Las Vegas airport has one of those Best Buy kiosks, so my $19+tax went to a pair of decent skull candy headphones with a mic jack. I left the pair I usually bring with me at home in a different travel bag.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

paid 60 bucks a day for valet parking in indianapolis as opposed to self parking a block away that was 20 bucks a day.

Any home that wasn’t a Pulte.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

Don't ever change Dennis.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

I have an amazingly similar story :

NYE, a few years back.....a group of us had rooms at a certain river north hotel....we were going to see Jimmy Eat World/Smoking Popes at House of Blues

Walked up to get a taxi...had to be 30+ people waiting in line....but there was one HUGE stretch SUV waiting there...he said he was heading to the UC to pick up people after the Bulls game, but he would drop us off for $30 each. There was 6 of us. And it was snowing kinda hard.

He drove like 4 blocks for $180 total.
You best believe we tried our best to chug the warm cans of Miller Lite in that thing.

We walked back to our hotel after the show....in 6" of snow..... It was surprisingly easy. Like $180 easier...

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I like thinking big. . . If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.
-Donald J. Trump, BPE

I bought a mouth guard since I grind my teeth. My dentist had mentioned it a couple cleanings in a row. So I agreed to get fitted for one at my last cleaning. I always research things but I figured I was there at the dentist and so what if there's a small upcharge. Cost me $165. You can get ones at Walmart for $25. Granted, I have a custom, fitted mouth guard but I can't imagine the one for $25 wouldn't act as a sufficient barrier between my teeth while I sleep.

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Lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be.

I can't remember the final price but after a Bears game we were walking away from Soldier Field and the beautiful Mrs. Fella can't walk any longer. She's got bad feet.

She's a few paces ahead of me and flags down one of those bike taxi guys. I hear her flirting and negotiating the price down. I hear her say; "Deal!". She looks back at me and tells me to hurry up while she is climbing in.

Bike taxi guys asks in his best English; "He ride, too?!?.." She says yes and he says; "Big boy! $20 bucks more!".

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"This is Chicago, my friend. Anything can happen."

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

Airport headphones...one time.

Any time I would buy from Brookstone (shitty and overpriced).

Any time I had leftover currency and would hit overpriced duty free stores to avoid having to exchange cash. $20 Kit Kat bar in Zimbabwe? $10 box of tea selling for 99 cents in Bolivian stores?