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Old 04/05/2010, 09:06 am   #35
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Originally Posted by Rather Dashing View Post
I'm not going to buy a toaster that only toasts future bread. Future bread may be AWESOME, and there may even be a few companies making future bread. But if I go into my grocery store and the stock of future bread is intermittent and unreliable, with only promises of "big things" in the future, I'd rather have a toaster that could handle the bread I can get from my grocery store NOW.
Have you ever read anything by George Saunders? I reckon he would LOVE that paragraph.
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