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Guess what truly terrific present I just received from Taylor Gifts! Nope.  Something even better.

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Not for personal glory.  Not for vast riches.  And hopefully, not for long. But after 6 joyous months of As Seen On TV™ silence, Taylor Gifts once again favored me with 72 full-color pages of worthless crap. O cruel wind — why does thou blow anew?

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  My mother sent us a gift from LL Bean and — you guessed it — her kind gesture put us back on their mailing list. Thanks, Mom.

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  To paraphrase Al Pacino in Godfather III:  Just when I thought I was out, Taylor Gifts sends me another @#!% catalog.

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Quick quiz: after the apolcalypse, which creatures will still scurry about the wasteland? A) Cockroaches; B) Real Estate Agents; C) Mortgage Brokers; D) All of the above Based on the amount of mailings I’m still receiving — despite the sub-prime mortgage meltdown — I’m betting D.

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Want information about grotesque McMansions in golf course-adjacent planned communities? Neither do I — but the folks at Estates West seem to think I do.

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I got some disturbing news last Friday regarding a recommendation I made on this very site.

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You may have received one of these over the weekend: Consider yourself lucky — I got 2.

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(flash-player required) You could already be a winner!

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(flash-player required) Getting off a mailing list — how hard can it be?

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