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    Thomas Friedman Will Have to Sell His Moustache For Food

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    Image of DrFeelgood DrFeelgood
    04/20/09

    In reply to Thomas Friedman Will Have to Sell His Moustache For Food
    I'm sure they're diversified.


    Maybe this dose of reality will bring down the rents and then store prices for things and then we can all go to the mall again.


    Or maybe all the malls will end up abandoned with motorcycle gangs squatting in them and holding jousting contests and speaking the street language from 'Bladerunner'.


    Could go either way in my book.

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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    04/20/09

    @DrFeelgood: homeless shelters. just add showers to the bathrooms.
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    04/20/09

    @DrFeelgood: Or maybe all the malls will end up abandoned with motorcycle gangs squatting in them and holding jousting contests and speaking the street language from 'Bladerunner'.


    So you've been to Sacramento, have you?

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    Image of DenOfEvil DenOfEvil
    04/20/09

    In reply to Thomas Friedman Will Have to Sell His Moustache For Food
    Ohh Madison Avenue. Does Sony realize that "GoLYTELY", a bowel cleanser, is pronounced the same as their phrase "Go lightly"? Nothing says good advertising like "remind customers of their colonoscopy".
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    04/20/09

    @DenOfEvil: Nothing says good advertising like "remind customers of their colonoscopy".


    I was saying the very same thing the other day at the Junior League Tea.

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    Image of Disco-Johnson Disco-Johnson
    04/20/09

    In reply to Thomas Friedman Will Have to Sell His Moustache For Food
    If they close all the malls, how will I get an orange julius?
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    04/20/09

    @Disco-Johnson: Or an Auntie Anne's?
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    04/20/09

    @Aaron Altman:


    And we'll have to book flights to get a Cinnabon at the airport.

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    Image of Greg Brayton Greg Brayton
    04/20/09

    @Disco-Johnson: Don't worry. They'll partner with fucking Pinkberry.
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    Image of misha trotsky misha trotsky
    04/20/09

    @Smitros:


    How could I ever live without Spencer Gifts?


    My life is now meaningless.

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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    04/20/09

    @misha trotsky:


    That made me get out my Scarface talking pen, which I got at a Spencer's last summer. The line I heard upon pressing the button was "So say good night to the bad guy!" Prophetic?

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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    04/20/09

    @Greg Brayton: will it be called orangeberry?
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    04/20/09

    @Smitros: Do you know how many calories those things have? Grams of saturated fat?


    Ain't it grand?

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    Image of the tiniest mexican the tiniest mexican
    04/20/09

    In reply to Thomas Friedman Will Have to Sell His Moustache For Food
    In a hilarious twist of fate, Friedman will be forced to drive taxis around the newly impoverished US while some Indian journalist in the backseat dictates a new column into his cellphone about how a seemingly trivial facet of their cross-cultural conversation has given him new insight into The State of the World.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    04/20/09

    @the tiniest mexican: applause
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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    04/20/09

    In reply to Thomas Friedman Will Have to Sell His Moustache For Food
    Maybe his in-laws should hop on that next big-money lexus-and-olive-tree idea -- the refrigerator that orders milk via the world wide web.
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    Image of Nic Fit Nic Fit
    04/20/09

    In reply to Thomas Friedman Will Have to Sell His Moustache For Food
    Guess in this new economy he'll just have to work harder to compete with the Chinese.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    04/20/09

    @Nic Fit: his column should have been offshored years ago. or cancelled.
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    04/20/09

    @if_i_only_had_a_heart: or pirated. Just imagine how amusing they could only be when written by some half-starved third-worlder who can't speak English?
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    Image of slainte_pants slainte_pants
    04/20/09

    In reply to Thomas Friedman Will Have to Sell His Moustache For Food
    I was just remarking how awesome it is we don't have malls anymore
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    04/20/09

    @slainte_pants: Unfortunately we still their dead, rotting hulks, however.
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    Image of shostakobitch shostakobitch
    04/20/09

    In reply to Thomas Friedman Will Have to Sell His Moustache For Food
    He will have to sell that mustache and throw in several suit jackets soaked in sweat.
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    Image of GuyBitchy GuyBitchy
    04/20/09

    In reply to Thomas Friedman Will Have to Sell His Moustache For Food
    Yeah, he deserves some poverty. Then he can join his ideas in being broke.
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    Image of bytememehard bytememehard
    04/20/09

    In reply to Thomas Friedman Will Have to Sell His Moustache For Food
    I saw his column yesterday. He wrote:

    I am the eggman, they are the eggmen, I am the walrus,

    Goo goo gajoob ga goo goo ga joob
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    Image of Hyman Decent Hyman Decent
    04/20/09

    In reply to Thomas Friedman Will Have to Sell His Moustache For Food
    ...without worrying about your credit card number being stolen...


    Your credit card's data can be stolen when you use it at a physical location. The cashier/waiter/what-have-you can swipe it through a card skimmer that reads and records the data on the magnetic stripe.

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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    04/20/09

    @Hyman Decent: They could actually just write the number down, if they wanted. In fact, they could write down that special three-digit number on the back of your card, that is supposed to prove that you've really got it.
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    Image of Mo MoDo Mo MoDo
    04/20/09

    In reply to Thomas Friedman Will Have to Sell His Moustache For Food
    The world's not so flat when your nest egg disappears into a sinkhole.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    04/20/09

    In reply to Thomas Friedman Will Have to Sell His Moustache For Food
    Now the world really is flat. Flat broke.
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    Image of Awesome X Awesome X
    04/20/09

    @Smitros: Now it's just an olive tree, sans Lexus.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    04/20/09

    @Awesome X:


    As an olive tree person I like this.

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    Image of TableNine TableNine
    04/20/09

    @Awesome X: They'll probably have to squat at the McKibbin Street lofts-- Flat: Hot and Crowded
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    04/20/09

    @Smitros: Hah!
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    Image of Shivery.McPickles Shivery.McPickles
    03/26/09

    In reply to The Sad Fate of Bill Richardson
    As a native New Mexican, let me say this:


    Someone who is as drunk as B. Rich is all the time has to pick their battles. He expended an awful lot of energy this month repealing the death penalty in NM (win!). Clearly, the mushroom risotto was too much for him. I'm only grateful he didn't heave Bush-on-Asian-guy-style all over Michelle's elegant frame.

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    Image of forwardmotion forwardmotion
    03/26/09

    @Shivery.McPickles: hear hear! Let's just be glad he wasn't accompanied by prostitutes he picked up at Swig in full view of the Times reporter.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    03/26/09

    @forwardmotion:


    !

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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    03/26/09

    In reply to The Sad Fate of Bill Richardson
    Wow, homeless shelters serving risotto now? And Créme Brûlee for dessert??
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