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Kum & Go

#1 Post by kusch » Wed Feb 12, 2014 8:04 am

I always wondered how they chose the name for this convenience store.

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#2 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Wed Feb 12, 2014 8:19 am

Alternate Headline: North Dakota Housing Shortage Hit New High
Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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#3 Post by Bob Juch » Wed Feb 12, 2014 10:05 am

kusch wrote:I always wondered how they chose the name for this convenience store.

http://www.minotdailynews.com/page/cont ... ation.html
They apparently forgot the "Go" part.
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#4 Post by rayxtwo » Wed Feb 12, 2014 12:21 pm

And here I thought full service stations were a thing of the past.

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Re: Kum & Go

#5 Post by AlphaDummy » Wed Feb 12, 2014 1:10 pm

"But, Ossifer...we were just doing what the sign told us to do..."
"Again" - Herb Brooks (as played by Kurt Russell)
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