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"Our server company sucks! They're doing some upkeep on the network this week and I…"

"fixed. Thanks for the heads up. https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get…"

"didn't meant to imply Will's gurdy was from these plans. I just wanted to have a vi…"

"My alter ego is Professor Vibrato. You can see me in the informative video above. …"

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"It's run by Jim Lewin of the York Emporium Bookstore. Use that link that Brian post…"

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