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		<title>Bettie Page: R.I.P.</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/blog/david_frank/?p=820</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
		
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Bettie Page was The Sex. 
I&#8217;m finished.
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<p>Bettie Page was The Sex. </p>
<p>I&#8217;m finished.</p>
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		<title>RADISH REVIEW #11: Twilight</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
		
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It bites! Too easy? It sucks! Hmm, still too easy? It&#8217;s emo-rrible! Whaaaat? It&#8217;s a very bad film! Perfect.
As you may have noticed, Radish Reviews has gone obvious and jumped on the Motivational Poster bandwagon. Between that and the teaser you now get up to 3 pithy Radish Reviews for the price of one. Can. [...]]]></description>
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<p><center><big><b>It bites! Too easy? It sucks! Hmm, still too easy? It&#8217;s emo-rrible! Whaaaat? It&#8217;s a very bad film! Perfect.</center></big></b></p>
<p>As you may have noticed, Radish Reviews has gone obvious and jumped on the Motivational Poster bandwagon. Between that and the teaser you now get up to 3 pithy Radish Reviews for the price of one. Can. You. Dig it? No. Oh ok.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m finished.</p>
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		<title>Random Picture Association: Twilight edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The film adaptation of Twilight looks like the year&#8217;s best comedy. A laugh a minute, I hear. I might even swallow my pride and catch it this morning, just so I know what every 13-year-old girl and 45-year-old romance-starved, lonely mother is talking about tomorrow. Although, I&#8217;m getting a vibe that I&#8217;ve already seen much of Twilight already. I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;">The film adaptation of <em>Twilight</em> looks like the year&#8217;s best comedy. A laugh a minute, I hear. I might even swallow my pride and catch it this morning, just so I know what every 13-year-old girl and 45-year-old romance-starved, lonely mother is talking about tomorrow. Although, I&#8217;m getting a vibe that I&#8217;ve already seen much of <em>Twilight</em> already. I don&#8217;t know why&#8230; well regardless, here&#8217;s some random pictures. No meaning behind them at all. None whatsoever.</p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/blog/david_frank/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/walk-hard-poster.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-795" title="walk-hard-poster" src="http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/blog/david_frank/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/walk-hard-poster.jpg" alt="" width="450" height="660" /></a></div>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/blog/david_frank/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/424819_1020_a.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-796 aligncenter" title="424819_1020_a" src="http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/blog/david_frank/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/424819_1020_a.jpg" alt="" width="499" height="711" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/blog/david_frank/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/twilight-backlot-21.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-797 aligncenter" title="twilight-backlot-21" src="http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/blog/david_frank/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/twilight-backlot-21.jpg" alt="" width="440" height="496" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/blog/david_frank/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/flying-squirrel.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-798 aligncenter" title="flying-squirrel" src="http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/blog/david_frank/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/flying-squirrel.jpg" alt="" width="406" height="456" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/blog/david_frank/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/twilightpuba.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-799 aligncenter" title="twilightpuba" src="http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/blog/david_frank/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/twilightpuba.jpg" alt="" width="450" height="300" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/blog/david_frank/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/will_ferrell.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-800 aligncenter" title="will_ferrell" src="http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/blog/david_frank/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/will_ferrell.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="400" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/blog/david_frank/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/pas0055twilight-posters.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-801 aligncenter" title="pas0055twilight-posters" src="http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/blog/david_frank/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/pas0055twilight-posters.jpg" alt="" width="301" height="450" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/blog/david_frank/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/billy.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-802 aligncenter" title="billy" src="http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/blog/david_frank/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/billy.jpg" alt="" width="460" height="307" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/blog/david_frank/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/twilightstill1.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-803 aligncenter" title="twilightstill1" src="http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/blog/david_frank/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/twilightstill1.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="334" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/blog/david_frank/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/130-162the-little-rascals-posters.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-804 aligncenter" title="130-162the-little-rascals-posters" src="http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/blog/david_frank/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/130-162the-little-rascals-posters.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="309" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>AND MY PERSONAL FAVORITE</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/blog/david_frank/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/twilightmoransis.bmp"><img class="size-full wp-image-793 aligncenter" title="twilightmoransis" src="http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/blog/david_frank/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/twilightmoransis.bmp" alt="" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/blog/david_frank/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/vince.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-794 aligncenter" title="vince" src="http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/blog/david_frank/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/vince.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="300" /></a></p>
<p>I&#8217;m finished.</p>
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		<title>Axl Rose Promises &#8220;Saudi Arabia Democracy&#8221; by 2027 A.D.</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/blog/david_frank/?p=780</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
		
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I like Gun N Roses as much as the average person enjoys Star Wars. Casually. I don&#8217;t own any albums or songs on my iPod, but I can still listen to their music on the radio without wanting to crunch my car into the nearest piece of large concrete&#8211;although I cannot say the same for [...]]]></description>
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<p>I like Gun N Roses as much as the average person enjoys <i>Star Wars</i>. Casually. I don&#8217;t own any albums or songs on my iPod, but I can still listen to their music on the radio without wanting to crunch my car into the nearest piece of large concrete&#8211;although I cannot say the same for Motley Crue, Poison, Van Halen, and the odious Def Leppard. Other than Bon Jovi, GnR is the only 80s Hair Band still relevant today&#8211;despite not releasing an album in 15 years and whose sole original member is a corn-rowed, Howard Hughes wannabe with a screech so shrill it can skin a pond full of alligators. </p>
<p>&#8220;Chinese Democracy&#8221; has years (actually 1.5 decades) of hype behind it. How can you not be interested? It&#8217;s as if your Uncle Axl has been promising you the biggest Christmas gift of all-time, just remain patient. And as each year rolls by, the myth of what the mystery gift is grows exponentially. First it&#8217;s a new dirt bike. Then a Corvette. And finally you expect a learjet. </p>
<p>Yet, in the end, when that legendary day arrives, he hands you nothing more than a box full of sporks from Kentucky Fried Chicken&#8211;all still in their original wrapping! Why? Because your Uncle Axl is a crazy motherfucker and you should have known better. </p>
<p>Yet, I&#8217;ll still hit up Best Buy tomorrow and see what the sporks are made of&#8230;just maybe they&#8217;re golden sporks. </p>
<p>I&#8217;m finished.</p>
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		<title>Mikey &#8220;I</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
		
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Just when I think I&#8217;m warming up to Mikey &#8220;I Rock the Bass for God&#8221; Huckabee, he goes and says something so atrocious that I wish his God would get on with the Rapture and relieve us of his presence. The guy has a decent sense of humor, but I don&#8217;t think he was joking [...]]]></description>
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<p>Just when I think I&#8217;m warming up to Mikey &#8220;I Rock the Bass for God&#8221; Huckabee, he goes and says something so atrocious that I wish his God would get on with the Rapture and relieve us of his presence. The guy has a decent sense of humor, but I don&#8217;t think he was joking when he spouted the following toad shit on <em>The View</em>:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;People who are homosexuals should have every right in terms of their civil rights, to be employed, to do anything they want. But that&#8217;s not really the issue. I know you talked about it and I think you got into it a little bit early on. But when we&#8217;re talking about a redefinition of an institution, that&#8217;s different than individual civil rights. We&#8217;re never going to convince each other&#8230;But here is the difference. Bull Connor was hosing people down in the streets of Alabama. John Lewis got his skull cracked on the Selma bridge.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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<p>Getting beyond the mind-numbing contradiction of his statement&#8211;&#8221;homosexuals should have every right in terms of their civil rights, to be employed, to do anything they want (unless of course they want to marry one another, fuck that shit Yaweh style)&#8221;&#8211;Huckabee displays a sickening level of callow ignorance here. <em>Hmm yes, obviously Gay Bashing is a figment of the liberal media&#8217;s imagination, just like evolution and the First Amendment. </em></p>
<p><center><a href="http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/blog/david_frank/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/harveymilk.jpg"><img src="http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/blog/david_frank/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/harveymilk.jpg" alt="" title="harveymilk" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-772" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/blog/david_frank/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/matthew_shepard_head_shot.jpg"><img src="http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/blog/david_frank/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/matthew_shepard_head_shot.jpg" alt="" title="matthew_shepard_head_shot" width="350" height="484" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-774" /></a><br />
</center></p>
<p>Apparently Huckabee forgot about the late Harvey Milk or Matthew Shepard (among the thousands of homosexuals murdered in the last quarter of a century). Or perhaps he thinks they were just a couple of queers who forgot to avoid bullets, fists, and fences.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m finished.</p>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Historic Inauguration Worth a Pair of Snowballs</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/blog/david_frank/?p=756</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
		
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Read&#8217;em and weep and adore and idolize and plot my murder mother bitchies. I&#8217;ve got an Inauguration Day ticket, thanks to my friends Harley (aka Ryan) and Melissa and their pal Cory, courtesy of Iowa&#8217;s  Republican Senator Chucky Grassley. Ohhh yeaaaah. I&#8217;ve gone rogue. I&#8217;ve gone republican. Time to scrub this blog of all [...]]]></description>
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<p>Read&#8217;em and weep and adore and idolize and plot my murder mother bitchies. I&#8217;ve got an Inauguration Day ticket, thanks to my friends Harley (aka Ryan) and Melissa and their pal Cory, courtesy of Iowa&#8217;s  Republican Senator Chucky Grassley. Ohhh yeaaaah. I&#8217;ve gone rogue. I&#8217;ve gone republican. Time to scrub this blog of all my unpatriotic, terrorist sympathizing, libtard communist rants and bathe in the color red and go gay (on the unmarried, it&#8217;s a choice, down-low) for Toby Keith. MUAHAHAHAHAHA! I will sneak in the neo-con&#8217;s back door (in an umarrying, it&#8217;s a choice, down-low sort of way), stage a silent coup and rebuild the Republican Party in my own image. The bastards will never know what hit them, even as they&#8217;re signing off on universal healthcare and free DVD copies of <i>Fahrenheit 9/11</i> for every American citizen.</p>
<p>Jesus God I&#8217;ve huffed too much WD-40 tonight. Vote Grassley! Time to tow this post back to reality. The reality being: I&#8217;VE GOT A FUCKING INAUGURATION TICKET!!! Huzzah! Vote Grassley! Actually since early October I&#8217;ve been planning on hitting up D.C. on January 20th. You know to witness history and stuff. Vote Grassley! You really only get once chance to say you were there when the First African-American President was sworn in&#8211;well, unless he wins a second term. However, I had no expectations to get tickets, knowing they&#8217;d be hotter than a Beatles Reunion tour with the resurrected zombies of John Lennon and George Harrison. Vote Grassley! So when I asked my Pennsylvania friends if I could crash at their fortress for my trip to D.C., I was shocked to hear these Obama supporters have a friend connected to a powerful Republican Senator from Iowa (Vote Grassley!), who could score us all tickets. Oh happy happy, joy joy indeed! Vote Grassley!</p>
<p>Actually, other than witnessing history, and apparently attending some parties afterwards due to their friend in Grassley&#8217;s office, I&#8217;m just happy to hang out with Harley and Melissa for a few days. I&#8217;ve only seen them for a total of 2 or 3 hours since they moved to PA a year and a half ago. So that shall be nice.</p>
<p>Oh and to rub it in&#8230;</p>
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<p>I&#8217;m finished.</p>
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		<title>RADISH REVIEW #10 (Expando-Bond Edition): Quantum of Solace</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Casino Royale]]></category>

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Badass Bond! Yet, the film sorely lacks this iconic image of Bond and his BFG? Demerit!
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<p><strong><big>Badass Bond! Yet, the film sorely lacks this iconic image of Bond and his BFG? Demerit!</big></center></p>
<p>The James Bond franchise is a clusterfuck composed mostly of disposable films. They&#8217;re postcard movies, more interested in style and image than story or character. It&#8217;s why critics have created the Relative Bond Movie Scale. Before <i>Casino Royale</i> you rarely heard anyone describe a Bond movie as a good or great film. Instead, the critical pendulum swung on whether it was a good or bad Bond film. Critics reviewing Bond flicks tend to sound like sports reporters covering the Special Olympics. </p>
<p>Then <i>Casino Royale</i> transformed the game. The film is a fantastic piece of cinema, one committed to telling a good story and *gasp* delivering dynamic characters. Oh and it&#8217;s a damn good Bond movie. And to top it off, it re-booted the franchise in a noble attempt to wiggle out from the disposable clusterfuck of stand-alone Bond movies and roll-out a narrative spanning several movies. <i>Casino Royale</i> changed the paradigm when it comes to reviewing <i>Quantum of Solace</i>. We&#8217;re no longer expecting decent Bond movies; we greedy bastards actually desire decent cinema. And even if I hated <i>Quantum</i> I&#8217;d still admire it for being the first honest-to-Jeebus sequel in the franchise.</p>
<p>Luckily I enjoyed the film, although, admittedly, I admire it more than I like it. It&#8217;s badass entertainment that continues to explore the nature of James Bond, something that hasn&#8217;t been done since&#8230;hmm, before the last film, I&#8217;d say 40 years ago in <i>On Her Majesty&#8217;s Secret Service</I>. Some have labeled <i>Quantum</i> as <i>Casino Royale 1.5</i>. Fair enough. It&#8217;s not a perfect film or sequel (however, I&#8217;ll give the producers a pass on the latter, it&#8217;s not like they have much practice in developing real sequels). The pace is sort of funky. And the ending left me wanting. Yet, I recognize and accept it as a bridge film (goddamn, an actually bridge Bond film, I expected to ride a unicorn with Johnny Cash to Mars before ever seeing such a thing). However, like <i>Casino Royale</i> I can&#8217;t wait what happens to Bond as a character in the next film. And for that reason alone, <i>Quantum</i> is more memorable and relevant than the majority of Bond movies.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m finished.</p>
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		<title>RADISH REVIEW #9: Role Models</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Role Models]]></category>

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Paul Rudd is my role model and he&#8217;s better than yours.
I&#8217;m finished.
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<p><big><strong>Paul Rudd is my role model and he&#8217;s better than yours.</strong></big></center></p>
<p>I&#8217;m finished.</p>
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		<title>Joe Scarborough Needs Soap</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Fun Stuff]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Joe Scarborough]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[HA!!! Joe Scarborough, who I have a secret gay-conservative crush on, just said &#8220;Fuck you&#8221; (rather than eff-you) on live air and didn&#8217;t even realize it, despite the nervous giggling from everybody and their mom and the producers probably screaming &#8220;WHAT THE FUCK JOE!!?!?&#8221; in his ear piece.

I&#8217;m finished.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>HA!!! Joe Scarborough, <a href="http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/blog/david_frank/?p=532">who I have a secret gay-conservative crush on</a>, just said &#8220;Fuck you&#8221; (rather than eff-you) on live air and didn&#8217;t even realize it, despite the nervous giggling from everybody and their mom and the producers probably screaming &#8220;WHAT THE FUCK JOE!!?!?&#8221; in his ear piece.</p>
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<p>I&#8217;m finished.</p>
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		<title>Onion Genius</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/blog/david_frank/?p=734</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[2008 Election]]></category>

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This is good stuff.
I&#8217;m finished.
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<p>This is good stuff.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m finished.</p>
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