Charlton Wilbur <cwilbur@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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>>>>>> "GUCS" == Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy
>>>>>> <taustinca@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
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> GUCS> For independent bookstores, however, that is usually a
> very GUCS> quickly self-correcting problem, and then you can
> buy books GUCS> from them by the pound at their closeout
> sale.
>
> Alas, there are regions of the country where the natives
> foolishly sup****t the horrible local bookstore instead of the
> well-stocked and friendly chain bookstore. Being independent
> should not be an insurance policy against the market puni****ng
> you for your stupidity.
I submit that the regions you speak of are not, in fact, in our
country, or even our plane of existence. They are, rather, on the
other side of naturally occuring interdimensional wormholes, where
the laws of physics are different, and people are stupider.
>
> The bookstore I mentioned upthread - that haranged me about Bush
> from the end of every row of bookshelves[1], and had not one but
> two digital displays counting war dead - is successful enough to
> have expanded recently, and I can't for the life of me figure
> out why.
Hatred of Bush is very popular these days. And while the people of
the alternate dimension are far stupider than here, that doesn't
mean people are smart here.
>
> Charlton
>
>
> [1] I agreed with their political views. If anything, this made
> the harangue *more* annoying.
>
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