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Clearly fell asleep at the switch. I blame it on my "job"

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I think your math is off a bit. $2.2 million divided by 11 is around $200,000, and if you divide that by 3 years, it's more like $65,000 a year. That's pretty close to what they make. They're doing pretty well.

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Or just remember that a difference of five degrees C is a difference of nine degrees F. C starts at zero, F at 32. So 10 C is +10 from zero C, +18 from 32 = 50 F. 20C = 68; 30C = 86, and 40C = 104F. 25? Well, 20 is 68, and add 9, or 30 is 86 and subtract nine. It's 77F either way.

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Those YUUUUGE hands can cover very nearly a major fifth, I'll have you know!

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The only use of beef that I've ever really liked is hamburgers and meat loaf. Steaks honestly do nothing for me. I'd much rather have pork, a meat I find much more flavorful and interesting.

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Remember the pit that Buffalo Bill kept his victims in? That's an oubliette.

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It's fun, but it's not as if NYC voters need convincing.Would be nice if some red-state media would grate Donny's ass on the regular.

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Wow. But whaddya mean the story never happened?

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Oh dear:

A Worrisome Pileup of $100 Million Homeshttp://www.nytimes.com/2016...A record 27 properties with nine-figure prices are officially for sale in 2016. Brokers say the number of nine-figure listings worldwide could easily top 40 or 50. Sadly, only two homes in the world sold for over $100 million in 2015.

For those with a half-billion burning a hole in their pocket, there's a $500 million compound being built in Bel Air. The property will have a 74,000-square-foot main house, a 30-car garage (no mention of an elevator), and a “Monaco-style casino” . . . not that actual casinos in actual Monaco cost that much.

I wonder if the agents get their usual 6%

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"[Emre] acknowledged that he stole it from a Boise dealer and ground off the serial numbers."

You can buy .50-cal machine guns from dealers ... the crime was stealing it? This country is so fucked-up it buggers the imagination.

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**Senior partner sends first-year associate**

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You can live nicely on $65k in South Carolina - especially if you neglect your income taxes. They must have used a boatload of bogus deductions to get their W2s down to zero withholding... a guaranteed method of flagging your return for an audit. As a regular user of Boeing products, I just hope that their engineering was better than their Constitutionalizing.

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At the moment you can only buy a fully automatic firearm of any sort if the was in circulation before 1986. The ATF regulates it at the Federal level. A lot of states flat bar ownership of such guns. Between increasing rarity and skyrocketing prices, as well as heavy scrutiny like Ermy got, sales of such guns are getting rarer. And parts are even scarcer.Trust me, you won't ever see these at a Walmart. Oh and because the serial number is gone, that particular gun is totally illegal and due for a meltdown after it is not needed as evidence.

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yeah, getting off the booze was bitter to me as wormwood. (wormwood is damn! bitter, too)

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