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    If they're willing to be clients of Arr&bee, then they'd need to be from Mars in the first place...so it could prove a shrewd selling point. They may all be looking for second homes, reached via a space shuttle.

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    Let the buyer beware...

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    And the seller too, if the customer looks like a Martian.

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    Having never seen a Martian, I'm starting to wonder if I actually won the bid for that nuclear submarine on eBay... I may have just thrown away $48.32.

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    A lot of eBay customers with high hopes for their purchases, have seen their hopes sink without trace.

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    Are you suggesting that if it looks too good to be true, then stop looking so hard?

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    HEY,HEY MY FRIENDS WHO NEEDS E-BAY WHEN I'M RIGHT HERE WITH BARGAINS GALORE,ANYTHING THEY CAN GET I CAN GET CHEAPER...[WITH ONLY A 200%MARKUP]SO DON'T LOOK OVERTHERE LOOK OVER HERE AT YOUR FRIENDLY LOCAL TRUSTWORTHY HONEST ALWAYS IN YOUR CORNER OPEN 48HRS A DAY SEVEN DAYS A WEEK AND WEEKENDS-OPEN-CHRISTMAS-EASTER-YOM-KIPPER[I sold him a honica last week]HOLLOWEEN,I'M ALWAYS HERE WITH BARGAINS.

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    Nice to know you're here for us, Mr Haney.

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    He once sold an Eskimo an ice maker for two seal skins and a pint of blubber.

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    I wonder who then bought the two seal skins and the pint of blubber....

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    Nobody. Rumor has it that those are two of the main ingredients in the new version of hooch that'll be on the streets [[or the internet) at the beginning of next year. Nobody knows because the government will neither confirm or reject that the wonderful elixur is real.

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    Just like they won't confirm that any of their other major problems are real....but the CIA are holding a man for questioning....

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    A friend of mine told me something about that. He works in national security and said that "I can't tell you much, but we had 'our Aunt Bea' in custody. We went to interrogate him but he seems to have escaped." To my knowledge, my friend and I don't share an aunt though...

    My friend was concerned because the interrogation was being conducted on the International Space Station.

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    Some of the people in Ground Control are extremely spaced out.....

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    Hooch'll do that. So, he covered his bases well.

    Clever...

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    He was well trained by the Moonies.

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    He subverted an offshoot of the Moonies that call themselves the Hoochies.

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    Many followers, but none of whom can walk a straight line.

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    Or touch their noses with the tips of their fingers while their eyes are closed.

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    Haaaaaaaaaa,well there you have it,they're fakes because if you have one drop of this wonderful elixur you won't be able to feel your nose or fingertips for six months...i'll sue those frauds.

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    You'll take them for all they possess. Hope you can afford more bills.

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    For anyone who bought the land on Mars, I can obtain some only slightly damaged canal boats holesale.

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    If he can turn a profit on them, I'm sure Arr&bee will wholly agree to your offer.

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    I'm afraid the deal won't be watertight...just like the boats.

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    They could used to form a very useful artificial reef. I'm sure Arr&bee would be eager to give guided tours.

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    I'd like to go on one of those tours but I need to work out the financing. What's the exchange rate between American food stamps and Martian currency?

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    To get it into perspective, the richest Martian is worth about the same as a free coffee on a Starbucks loyalty card.

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    Well, I can understand that. That's well beyond my tax bracket... When I'm in the mood for Starbucks, I use a paper towel to sop the last bit of coffee from discarded cups until I have enough to squeeze out a cup of my own. It's a good and affordable way to treat myself, although it gets old when people throw cigarette butts into the cups instead of into ash cans.

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    Times must be really hard in the legal profession if barristers are making coffee now

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    I made the mistake of running to a local coffee house after thinking someone said they had 'bare Esthers' serving brew. What a letdown.

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    I can get you a tour on mars let me check with my people upthere.

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    This could take him a while.....

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    He can take his time. I'll be working on a rendition of 'Red Skies [[Shining On Me)' that I'm anticipating will be a big hit when we get there.

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    Mars is a big market?

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    I dunno. It's an increasingly smaller candy bar, though.

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    LOL! Well, it started over here, and with a much smaller market than the US..but it is still a leader here, and maybe it still does well there?

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    Not so much. Its cousin, the Snickers bar has far exceeded its popularity. I'm pretty certain that Reeses Peanut Butter Cups and M&Ms Ifound up the dominating trinity of popular sugared poison in the US. 'm not sure the last time I saw a Mars bar on the store shelf, but I have to believe it's there.

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    A little homework....

    The UK version of Mars Bar [[the original) is, and always was, different from the US version. It is more like your 'Milky Way' [[in turn, our 'Milky Way' is more similar to your '3 Musketeeers')

    The US Mars Bar was discontinued in 2002, and replaced by Snickers Almond. It was revived in 2010 and was/is exclusively sold by WalMart.

    Our Snickers bars were called ' Marathon' until 1990.

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    I think I need a drink after all of that knowledge in such a short period of time... I'm going to remember all of that and share it at the next family gathering to see who gives me the evil eye.

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    If your family all regard candy/chocolate bars as 'popular sugared poison', then save your breath and simply hand some round. That should really do it for you....

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    It's certainly making me snicker.

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    If not sicker...

    I've not compared mass market UK milk chocolate with the equivalent US version, although it seems the US offer may be sweeter.

    If it's chocolate in a bar, then plain with a high cocoa content is best for me, every time.

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    More like brown-tinted high fructose corn syrup covering genetically modified peanuts held together in caramel-colored sweetened partially-hydrogenated vegetable oil. I'm not sure how much 'chocolate' is actually in them anymore...

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    It should tell you on the packet, which I highly recommend you keep. It could come in handy for the coroner's report.

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    Sad that we require safety data sheets for much of the food that is available the days.

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    It's very helpful for people who may suffer a serious reaction from certain ingredients.

    For the rest of us, it's a case of whether each of the ingredients is considered fashionably good for us, or fashionably bad.

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    Chocolates from the USA must be healthier since they don't contain E-numbers.

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    It would seem that Canada, if not USA also, may generally have higher chocolate standards than UK, which requires the use of different classifications for their confectionery.

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    That's a new one for me... I at least hope that your confections use natural sweeteners instead of chemically modified corn syrup like ours do. There's a science behind how candy is marketed here and that science includes putting the correct ingredients to make sure you can eat a high-caloried, low nutrition snack and still be hungry when you're finished. And it's sad that candy bars are typically much cheaper than an apple or an orange.

    Many Americans are literally addicted to candy and soda, as reflected by our swelling waistlines. I'm waiting for candy to be added to the food pyramid one of these days.

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    It's being mooted here that sugar should carry a tax.

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