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July 15th, 2008

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Bottled NYC Tap Water For Sale

As if the world needed reminding that the United States is a country full of senseless consumers with no real grasp on 1) the rapidly deteriorating ecology of the planet or 2) reality, a dubious company/beauty pageant called Miss New York City (their grammatically incorrect slogan is “the [...]

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