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epoch wrote: Alright. All mu uncensored games are officially out the window. C has joined the forums and might be sucked into posting hear a bit. So aside from the Chossmart/GG online banter there's going to be another couple. Though I can only hope that it is as mildly entertaining to you as GG and chossy have been for me.
Do you think I can ever unseat the Evil Empire?
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Jun 17, 2008, 8:18 PM
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obsessed wrote: chossmonkey wrote: obsessed wrote: granite_grrl wrote: So I'm on afternoon shift here at work all week. Today I hit the floor running, literaly. Got called to help at a machine before I could even tie up my safety shoes. After three hours of that I'm now trying to catch up with emails. I'm currently trying to figure out how to say that some vender's design sounds okay, but I don't fully understand what the design is for without sounding like an idiot/bitch. I forgot you were on afternoons. Forgot to tell you guys I didn't make it home til way after 10 on Fri night. Drove straight into that huge storm. You should have seen the lightening coming off the lake! It was wild. no hail though. People don't know how to drive in blinding rain either. They all slowed down to a snail pace and threw on their hazzard lights. Even in the "fast" lane, so I couldn't get by them. You think you're all tough in that big gas guzzling truck don't you? Damn straight. I am king of the road.
How did I miss that?
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chossmonkey wrote: wanderlustmd wrote: chossmonkey wrote: wanderlustmd wrote: chossmonkey wrote: After leaving me for dead on thursday while out MT.Biking, Rebecca entered the ranks of the n00bs today while climbing. I ropegunned her new projjj for her and she proceeded to TR it. THEN when she was all done and we had moved down the cliff and I was getting all my draws together to do a quick lap on one of my training routes I realized I was a draw short. Wouldn't you know, it was still up on the route Rebecca had been working on. She promised me she would get it on the way down. It turns out I was the one who ended up reclimbing the route and getting it.  Good thing the route was too hard for the swarms of other n00bs to climb it and booty the draw before we went back and got it. At least you got another training lap. Maybe that was Rebecca being exceptionally cunning and helping you train. Thanks are in order, methinks.  I want to hear more about the left for dead thing. It would have been better training for me to go do two harder routes at the other part of the cliff then to do the victory lap and then one harder route. Long story short. My chain broke, twice, and I didn't see Rebecca until she got home later that night. I almost didn't take a chain tool or tool kit since she already had one. Let that also be a lesson to not try and put back together a link that already came apart on its own, even though theoretically it does give your riding partners more time to come back and find you and help. Thankfully it was just my chain that was broken and not me. IC. Mountain biking looks fun, but I'm pretty sure I'd kill myself. Mt.Biking is dangerous. That's why I don't do it very much.
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Jun 17, 2008, 8:24 PM
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chossmonkey wrote: epoch wrote: Alright. All mu uncensored games are officially out the window. C has joined the forums and might be sucked into posting hear a bit. So aside from the Chossmart/GG online banter there's going to be another couple. Though I can only hope that it is as mildly entertaining to you as GG and chossy have been for me. Chossmart? Do you think I can ever unseat the Evil Empire?
Every time I say/write chossmart it reminds me of this:
"Ok you Primitive Screwheads, listen up! You see this? This... is my boomstick! The 12-gauge double-barreled Remington. S-Mart's top of the line. You can find this in the sporting goods department. That's right, this sweet baby was made in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Retails for about $109.95. It's got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger. That's right. Shop smart. Shop S-Mart. You got that? "
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obsessed
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chossmonkey wrote: obsessed wrote: Thanks a lot epok. I will never get that 5 mins of my life back. At least it explains the retarded look in your pic, but you are missing the hot chick in yours Haven't you learned not to click on Epoch's links yet?
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chossmonkey
Jun 17, 2008, 8:27 PM
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obsessed wrote: chossmonkey wrote: wanderlustmd wrote: chossmonkey wrote: wanderlustmd wrote: chossmonkey wrote: After leaving me for dead on thursday while out MT.Biking, Rebecca entered the ranks of the n00bs today while climbing. I ropegunned her new projjj for her and she proceeded to TR it. THEN when she was all done and we had moved down the cliff and I was getting all my draws together to do a quick lap on one of my training routes I realized I was a draw short. Wouldn't you know, it was still up on the route Rebecca had been working on. She promised me she would get it on the way down. It turns out I was the one who ended up reclimbing the route and getting it. Good thing the route was too hard for the swarms of other n00bs to climb it and booty the draw before we went back and got it. At least you got another training lap. Maybe that was Rebecca being exceptionally cunning and helping you train. Thanks are in order, methinks. I want to hear more about the left for dead thing. It would have been better training for me to go do two harder routes at the other part of the cliff then to do the victory lap and then one harder route. Long story short. My chain broke, twice, and I didn't see Rebecca until she got home later that night. I almost didn't take a chain tool or tool kit since she already had one. Let that also be a lesson to not try and put back together a link that already came apart on its own, even though theoretically it does give your riding partners more time to come back and find you and help. Thankfully it was just my chain that was broken and not me. IC. Mountain biking looks fun, but I'm pretty sure I'd kill myself. Mt.Biking is dangerous. That's why I don't do it very much. Its not as dangerous as downhill. You notice that new sports are being invented to chase the ultimate thrill. Downhill biking that Brent is into, is a new sport. They build routes down huge hills so they can go faster. Its all downhill. They don't have to pedal up..they use the chair lift. Next thing you know it will be an olympic sport. I suppose its no different than what we do with snow boarding.
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kachoong wrote: chossmonkey wrote: obsessed wrote: the_climber wrote: We are on the metric system. The generation of kids comming out of school or in school now are really the first generation to have a full "Metric" influence. My better half was in school when the change occured, I was is just after, and both our parents were only schooled in imperial measurment. So for me I speek, Celcius for temp, meters for hight of cliffs/buildings/... , km for distance (though I understand miles, feet, ect. too), feet and inches for hight of people, liters/mL for volume, kg and pounds for weight except for ounces which completely throughs me off (unless it's a certain something else in ounces, oh and gold I know in ounces), and Feet for Elevation... still working on the whole meters thing for elevation, that just hasn't happened for me yet. I totally relate. I was in school when the change to metric came in. I only speak in metric temps and mileage. As for everything else, I'm still old skool. My kids don't know anything about imperial measurements. Its hard to discuss things with them when we speak different languages You just date stamped yourself.  I could be wrong, but Standard (a.k.a. Imperial to british wannbes) is going to be around in Canada for a long time still. At least in the construction sector. Industrial uses metric but Canada supplies too much stuff to the US for residential that it really doesn't make sense to go to metric. Standard works much better for construction anyway. Hahahahaaa! You must be careful to not date stamp yourself here!! I'm not sure when the metric system started in Canadia but in Aus it was about 67 or 69. I certainly wasn't even born then.... although I did see Nirvana in concert at college, if that's a date stamp at all. 
I don't care anymore lol Everyone knows Im as old as art. We didn't get the metric system til I was almost out of highschool and that was NOT in the 60's.
I saw the classic bands when I was in college. Any guesses which ones?
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obsessed
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epoch wrote: Alright. All mu uncensored games are officially out the window. C has joined the forums and might be sucked into posting hear a bit. So aside from the Chossmart/GG online banter there's going to be another couple. Though I can only hope that it is as mildly entertaining to you as GG and chossy have been for me.
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obsessed wrote: kachoong wrote: chossmonkey wrote: obsessed wrote: the_climber wrote: We are on the metric system. The generation of kids comming out of school or in school now are really the first generation to have a full "Metric" influence. My better half was in school when the change occured, I was is just after, and both our parents were only schooled in imperial measurment. So for me I speek, Celcius for temp, meters for hight of cliffs/buildings/... , km for distance (though I understand miles, feet, ect. too), feet and inches for hight of people, liters/mL for volume, kg and pounds for weight except for ounces which completely throughs me off (unless it's a certain something else in ounces, oh and gold I know in ounces), and Feet for Elevation... still working on the whole meters thing for elevation, that just hasn't happened for me yet. I totally relate. I was in school when the change to metric came in. I only speak in metric temps and mileage. As for everything else, I'm still old skool. My kids don't know anything about imperial measurements. Its hard to discuss things with them when we speak different languages You just date stamped yourself. I could be wrong, but Standard (a.k.a. Imperial to british wannbes) is going to be around in Canada for a long time still. At least in the construction sector. Industrial uses metric but Canada supplies too much stuff to the US for residential that it really doesn't make sense to go to metric. Standard works much better for construction anyway. Hahahahaaa! You must be careful to not date stamp yourself here!! I'm not sure when the metric system started in Canadia but in Aus it was about 67 or 69. I certainly wasn't even born then.... although I did see Nirvana in concert at college, if that's a date stamp at all. I don't care anymore lol Everyone knows Im as old as art. We didn't get the metric system til I was almost out of highschool and that was NOT in the 60's. I saw the classic bands when I was in college. Any guesses which ones?
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dr_feelgood wrote: chossmonkey wrote: How about this?  mmmm... forties....
Its to bad the text doesn't show up with it.
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chossmonkey
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chossmonkey wrote: obsessed wrote: . I saw the classic bands when I was in college. Any guesses which ones? The Beetles and the Rolling Stones?
Jimi Hendrix
The Grateful Dead
Jefferson Airplane
and lets not forget....
The Monkees
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chossmonkey wrote: obsessed wrote: kachoong wrote: chossmonkey wrote: obsessed wrote: the_climber wrote: We are on the metric system. The generation of kids comming out of school or in school now are really the first generation to have a full "Metric" influence. My better half was in school when the change occured, I was is just after, and both our parents were only schooled in imperial measurment. So for me I speek, Celcius for temp, meters for hight of cliffs/buildings/... , km for distance (though I understand miles, feet, ect. too), feet and inches for hight of people, liters/mL for volume, kg and pounds for weight except for ounces which completely throughs me off (unless it's a certain something else in ounces, oh and gold I know in ounces), and Feet for Elevation... still working on the whole meters thing for elevation, that just hasn't happened for me yet. I totally relate. I was in school when the change to metric came in. I only speak in metric temps and mileage. As for everything else, I'm still old skool. My kids don't know anything about imperial measurements. Its hard to discuss things with them when we speak different languages You just date stamped yourself. I could be wrong, but Standard (a.k.a. Imperial to british wannbes) is going to be around in Canada for a long time still. At least in the construction sector. Industrial uses metric but Canada supplies too much stuff to the US for residential that it really doesn't make sense to go to metric. Standard works much better for construction anyway. Hahahahaaa! You must be careful to not date stamp yourself here!! I'm not sure when the metric system started in Canadia but in Aus it was about 67 or 69. I certainly wasn't even born then.... although I did see Nirvana in concert at college, if that's a date stamp at all. I don't care anymore lol Everyone knows Im as old as art. We didn't get the metric system til I was almost out of highschool and that was NOT in the 60's. I saw the classic bands when I was in college. Any guesses which ones? The Beetles and the Rolling Stones?
Valdy?
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I really didn't need to see that.
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chossmonkey wrote: I really didn't need to see that.
Hey after almost 40 years.... he's still touring...
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the_climber wrote: chossmonkey wrote: obsessed wrote: kachoong wrote: chossmonkey wrote: obsessed wrote: the_climber wrote: We are on the metric system. The generation of kids comming out of school or in school now are really the first generation to have a full "Metric" influence. My better half was in school when the change occured, I was is just after, and both our parents were only schooled in imperial measurment. So for me I speek, Celcius for temp, meters for hight of cliffs/buildings/... , km for distance (though I understand miles, feet, ect. too), feet and inches for hight of people, liters/mL for volume, kg and pounds for weight except for ounces which completely throughs me off (unless it's a certain something else in ounces, oh and gold I know in ounces), and Feet for Elevation... still working on the whole meters thing for elevation, that just hasn't happened for me yet. I totally relate. I was in school when the change to metric came in. I only speak in metric temps and mileage. As for everything else, I'm still old skool. My kids don't know anything about imperial measurements. Its hard to discuss things with them when we speak different languages You just date stamped yourself. I could be wrong, but Standard (a.k.a. Imperial to british wannbes) is going to be around in Canada for a long time still. At least in the construction sector. Industrial uses metric but Canada supplies too much stuff to the US for residential that it really doesn't make sense to go to metric. Standard works much better for construction anyway. Hahahahaaa! You must be careful to not date stamp yourself here!! I'm not sure when the metric system started in Canadia but in Aus it was about 67 or 69. I certainly wasn't even born then.... although I did see Nirvana in concert at college, if that's a date stamp at all. I don't care anymore lol Everyone knows Im as old as art. We didn't get the metric system til I was almost out of highschool and that was NOT in the 60's. I saw the classic bands when I was in college. Any guesses which ones? The Beetles and the Rolling Stones?
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the_climber wrote: chossmonkey wrote: I really didn't need to see that. Hey after almost 40 years.... he's still touring...
The Ontario Tour dates... just in case you want to see him in concert Chossy:
Valdy's Tour Date Site wrote: Tobermory, ON, Wed., Aug. 6, Crow's Nest Pub (519) 596-2575 Oshawa, ON, Thurs., JAug. 7, Oshawa Little Theatre, (416) 991-6901 - a return engagement !! bobbatwell@evolutionentertainment.ca Pembroke, ON, Sun.., Aug. 10, 2:00pm, Pembroke Waterfront Festival, (416) 488-6998 - rickw@rikemmett.com Grafton, ON, Fri/Sat.., Aug. 29/30, Shelter Valley Folk Festival Way more to come |
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stymingersfink wrote: the_climber wrote: chossmonkey wrote: obsessed wrote: kachoong wrote: chossmonkey wrote: obsessed wrote: the_climber wrote: We are on the metric system. The generation of kids comming out of school or in school now are really the first generation to have a full "Metric" influence. My better half was in school when the change occured, I was is just after, and both our parents were only schooled in imperial measurment. So for me I speek, Celcius for temp, meters for hight of cliffs/buildings/... , km for distance (though I understand miles, feet, ect. too), feet and inches for hight of people, liters/mL for volume, kg and pounds for weight except for ounces which completely throughs me off (unless it's a certain something else in ounces, oh and gold I know in ounces), and Feet for Elevation... still working on the whole meters thing for elevation, that just hasn't happened for me yet. I totally relate. I was in school when the change to metric came in. I only speak in metric temps and mileage. As for everything else, I'm still old skool. My kids don't know anything about imperial measurements. Its hard to discuss things with them when we speak different languages You just date stamped yourself. I could be wrong, but Standard (a.k.a. Imperial to british wannbes) is going to be around in Canada for a long time still. At least in the construction sector. Industrial uses metric but Canada supplies too much stuff to the US for residential that it really doesn't make sense to go to metric. Standard works much better for construction anyway. Hahahahaaa! You must be careful to not date stamp yourself here!! I'm not sure when the metric system started in Canadia but in Aus it was about 67 or 69. I certainly wasn't even born then.... although I did see Nirvana in concert at college, if that's a date stamp at all. I don't care anymore lol Everyone knows Im as old as art. We didn't get the metric system til I was almost out of highschool and that was NOT in the 60's. I saw the classic bands when I was in college. Any guesses which ones? The Beetles and the Rolling Stones? Did you mean Vivaldi?
Nope, "Valdy" would have been touring the college folk festivals before during and after (apparently as he's still at it) Obsessed was in both high school and post-secondary.
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the_climber wrote: stymingersfink wrote: the_climber wrote: chossmonkey wrote: obsessed wrote: kachoong wrote: chossmonkey wrote: obsessed wrote: the_climber wrote: We are on the metric system. The generation of kids comming out of school or in school now are really the first generation to have a full "Metric" influence. My better half was in school when the change occured, I was is just after, and both our parents were only schooled in imperial measurment. So for me I speek, Celcius for temp, meters for hight of cliffs/buildings/... , km for distance (though I understand miles, feet, ect. too), feet and inches for hight of people, liters/mL for volume, kg and pounds for weight except for ounces which completely throughs me off (unless it's a certain something else in ounces, oh and gold I know in ounces), and Feet for Elevation... still working on the whole meters thing for elevation, that just hasn't happened for me yet. I totally relate. I was in school when the change to metric came in. I only speak in metric temps and mileage. As for everything else, I'm still old skool. My kids don't know anything about imperial measurements. Its hard to discuss things with them when we speak different languages You just date stamped yourself. I could be wrong, but Standard (a.k.a. Imperial to british wannbes) is going to be around in Canada for a long time still. At least in the construction sector. Industrial uses metric but Canada supplies too much stuff to the US for residential that it really doesn't make sense to go to metric. Standard works much better for construction anyway. Hahahahaaa! You must be careful to not date stamp yourself here!! I'm not sure when the metric system started in Canadia but in Aus it was about 67 or 69. I certainly wasn't even born then.... although I did see Nirvana in concert at college, if that's a date stamp at all. I don't care anymore lol Everyone knows Im as old as art. We didn't get the metric system til I was almost out of highschool and that was NOT in the 60's. I saw the classic bands when I was in college. Any guesses which ones? The Beetles and the Rolling Stones? Did you mean Vivaldi?Nope, "Valdy" would have been touring the college folk festivals before during and after (apparently as he's still at it) Obsessed was in both high school and post-secondary.
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the_climber wrote: chossmonkey wrote: I really didn't need to see that. Hey after almost 40 years.... he's still touring...
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the_climber wrote: the_climber wrote: chossmonkey wrote: I really didn't need to see that. Hey after almost 40 years.... he's still touring... The Ontario Tour dates... just in case you want to see him in concert Chossy: Valdy's Tour Date Site wrote: Tobermory, ON, Wed., Aug. 6, Crow's Nest Pub (519) 596-2575 Oshawa, ON, Thurs., JAug. 7, Oshawa Little Theatre, (416) 991-6901 - a return engagement !! bobbatwell@evolutionentertainment.ca Pembroke, ON, Sun.., Aug. 10, 2:00pm, Pembroke Waterfront Festival, (416) 488-6998 - rickw@rikemmett.com Grafton, ON, Fri/Sat.., Aug. 29/30, Shelter Valley Folk Festival Way more to come
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the_climber wrote: chossmonkey wrote: obsessed wrote: kachoong wrote: chossmonkey wrote: obsessed wrote: the_climber wrote: We are on the metric system. The generation of kids comming out of school or in school now are really the first generation to have a full "Metric" influence. My better half was in school when the change occured, I was is just after, and both our parents were only schooled in imperial measurment. So for me I speek, Celcius for temp, meters for hight of cliffs/buildings/... , km for distance (though I understand miles, feet, ect. too), feet and inches for hight of people, liters/mL for volume, kg and pounds for weight except for ounces which completely throughs me off (unless it's a certain something else in ounces, oh and gold I know in ounces), and Feet for Elevation... still working on the whole meters thing for elevation, that just hasn't happened for me yet. I totally relate. I was in school when the change to metric came in. I only speak in metric temps and mileage. As for everything else, I'm still old skool. My kids don't know anything about imperial measurements. Its hard to discuss things with them when we speak different languages You just date stamped yourself. I could be wrong, but Standard (a.k.a. Imperial to british wannbes) is going to be around in Canada for a long time still. At least in the construction sector. Industrial uses metric but Canada supplies too much stuff to the US for residential that it really doesn't make sense to go to metric. Standard works much better for construction anyway. Hahahahaaa! You must be careful to not date stamp yourself here!! I'm not sure when the metric system started in Canadia but in Aus it was about 67 or 69. I certainly wasn't even born then.... although I did see Nirvana in concert at college, if that's a date stamp at all. I don't care anymore lol Everyone knows Im as old as art. We didn't get the metric system til I was almost out of highschool and that was NOT in the 60's. I saw the classic bands when I was in college. Any guesses which ones? The Beetles and the Rolling Stones?
...And my links are bad?
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epoch wrote: Alright. All mu uncensored games are officially out the window. C has joined the forums and might be sucked into posting hear a bit. So aside from the Chossmart/GG online banter there's going to be another couple. Though I can only hope that it is as mildly entertaining to you as GG and chossy have been for me.
We're entertaining? I thought the best that came from us was the chossmamot bomb.
My vote goes to clamhead for being much more interesting.
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stymingersfink wrote: the_climber wrote: stymingersfink wrote: the_climber wrote: chossmonkey wrote: obsessed wrote: kachoong wrote: chossmonkey wrote: obsessed wrote: the_climber wrote: We are on the metric system. The generation of kids comming out of school or in school now are really the first generation to have a full "Metric" influence. My better half was in school when the change occured, I was is just after, and both our parents were only schooled in imperial measurment. So for me I speek, Celcius for temp, meters for hight of cliffs/buildings/... , km for distance (though I understand miles, feet, ect. too), feet and inches for hight of people, liters/mL for volume, kg and pounds for weight except for ounces which completely throughs me off (unless it's a certain something else in ounces, oh and gold I know in ounces), and Feet for Elevation... still working on the whole meters thing for elevation, that just hasn't happened for me yet. I totally relate. I was in school when the change to metric came in. I only speak in metric temps and mileage. As for everything else, I'm still old skool. My kids don't know anything about imperial measurements. Its hard to discuss things with them when we speak different languages You just date stamped yourself. I could be wrong, but Standard (a.k.a. Imperial to british wannbes) is going to be around in Canada for a long time still. At least in the construction sector. Industrial uses metric but Canada supplies too much stuff to the US for residential that it really doesn't make sense to go to metric. Standard works much better for construction anyway. Hahahahaaa! You must be careful to not date stamp yourself here!! I'm not sure when the metric system started in Canadia but in Aus it was about 67 or 69. I certainly wasn't even born then.... although I did see Nirvana in concert at college, if that's a date stamp at all. I don't care anymore lol Everyone knows Im as old as art. We didn't get the metric system til I was almost out of highschool and that was NOT in the 60's. I saw the classic bands when I was in college. Any guesses which ones? The Beetles and the Rolling Stones? Did you mean Vivaldi?Nope, "Valdy" would have been touring the college folk festivals before during and after (apparently as he's still at it) Obsessed was in both high school and post-secondary. , yeah, I'm positive that's who you meant. It just don't get more classical than that. Dint know she was his contemporary though.
Antonio Vivaldi was born in Venice on March 4th, 1678.
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