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Poor Mitt. Isn't it time to let him and Ann alone? Hey, stop it! Private life is <i>hard</i>. And, you know, it’s an important thing that the Romneys are doing right now and it is time for all Americans to realize how significant this pre-Christmas sale is and how lucky we are to have someone with Mitt’s qualifications and experience and know-how to be able to have the opportunity to go shopping.

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I hadn't even thought of this sound in years. And then not an hour after reading this, I was watching some Craig Ferguson on the youtoobs, and he imitated this very sound.

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Mitt's picture: I don't care where he spends his post defeat pity party as long as the picture describing thus is not a finger-licking Palin-esque pool side crotch shot.

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I love the ones that pay in cash and they haul out their coin purse so they count out 99 cents in pennies.

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He bought a 750-oz jar at Costco last week. They're only half-way through it.

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And they're <i>all</i> the right size.

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Why is he wearing a baseball cap at all, if he's gonna wear it way the fuck up on top of his head like that? It looks like one of those silly equestrian skull buckets that you wear while dancing with your horse.

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he built that.

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No, that was just a dream.

(OHJB's plagiarism scandal involved a Neil Kinnock speech; Cameron isn't perfectly analogous because he's PM not Leader of the Opposition, more's the pity, but I figured the right/left alignment was likely more significant.)

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It's certainly the case that BJs indulges in every single manipulative practice enumerated here, but also indulges in union busting practices that would warm the heart of any Walton.

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PAPER TOWEL LIBELS!!!?!

Nay, those are the wonderful Kirkland Costco house brand paper towels.

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Well-played, sir, well-played...

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The wife walking six paces behind? CREEPING SHARIAH!

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Wouldn't it have to be David Cameron?

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All that notwithstanding, what's evil about Costco is the manipulative tactics (erratic availability, giant shopping barges, fee-for-membership, jam-packed parking lots, shrink-wrapping things into larger packaging) they use to force people to buy more than they need because they don't know when it will be available again, it's so much goddamn trouble to get in and out of the store, and holy crap THIS IS<i> SO</i> CHEAP!

All big-time retailers manipulate their customers. Costco just does it too brazenly. And if you shop at the same store for a few years you can watch the employees get fatter and fatter....

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