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So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

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Unique *AND* one-of-a-kind!
(Let’s just acknowledge the battle is lost and surrender.)

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KILO NOVEMBER

One Too Many
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Unique *AND* one-of-a-kind!
(Let’s just acknowledge the battle is lost and surrender.)

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Many decades back I used to work at a pipe and cigar shop. This store was in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC. This neighborhood is the oldest part of the city. It contained the houses of the powerful and famous (Jackie Kennedy, anyone?) and draws a large crowd of tourists walking by.

The store owner had furnished the store with display cases and cabinets salvaged from a nineteenth century pharmacy in Pennsylvania. The effect was to draw in people who didn't smoke but who were charmed by the "antiqueyness" of the place. In an effort to broaden his customer base he added knick-knacks to the inventory and promoted these in his mail order catalogue as being "unique, one-of-kind, and different", a lesson in synonyms for us all.
 
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Hey you, fellow at Costco hawking water heaters or furnaces or whatever, I know that everybody’s gotta make a living and I wouldn’t trade places with you. But my name ain’t “Boss,” nor is it “Bro.”
 

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