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Too funny, but you know, your next ad will be about child labor laws.
Mark my words.
Refresh. 🙂
Call Bob Dole. He’s got a strong lead on pharaceucticals. Apparently.
True. True.
I can’t imagine that there would be so much interest in such a flaccid subject. I mean, who wants to spend their time reading about guys with not enough lead in their pencil? Not me. Some other pharmacuetical subject, maybe. Like incontinence. Yeah. Explosive Bowel Syndrome. Now there’s a volatile subject:
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