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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

No Big Macs In Reykjavik

The economic crash in Iceland, combined with the high cost of importing the ingredients for McDonald's products, has made the cost of keeping the 3 McDonald's locations in Iceland prohibitively expensive.

Most foodstuffs in Iceland have to be imported, and thus are expensive.
Posted by Bob at 10/27/2009 07:43:00 AM
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Be as decent as you can. Don't believe without evidence. Treat things divine with marked respect, and don't have anything to do with them. Do not trust humanity without collateral security, it will play you some scurvy trick. Remember that it hurts no one to be treated as an enemy entitled to respect until he prove himself a friend worthy of affection. Cultivate a taste for distasteful truths. And, finally, most important of all, endeavor to see things as they are, not as they ought to be.

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All Men Are Created Equal. (Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father)

But Differ Greatly In the Sequel. (Fisher Ames, Founding Father)

Jeff Cooper's Rules of Gun Safety

  1. All guns are always loaded. Even if they are not, treat them as if they are.
  2. Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy. (For those who insist that this particular gun is unloaded, see Rule 1.)
  3. Keep your finger off the trigger till your sights are on the target. This is the Golden Rule. Its violation is directly responsible for about 60 percent of inadvertent discharges.
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A Gun is not a Toy. Don't Play With It.

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Bob's Theory of Hush Puppies: The best hush puppies are oblong shaped, rather like dog turds. The worst ones are spherical, like balls. The spherical ones are usually made from the recipe on a pre-packaged box of hush puppy mix.

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