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Old 09-January-2008, 07:07 PM
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Was the spray-crap one of Popeil's abominations*? I hadn't realized.

* ... Said with backhanded affection. I may be mellowing somewhat, but some of his stuff is half-way decent. I've never been comfortable with his paid-audience infomercial approach, but it's nowhere near the least ethical marketing practice I've encountered. Not even this week.
I was cooking dinner last night, and I noticed that my pasta spoon is one of his products. I don't actually know where I acquired it (a past roommate? Goodwill?), but it does its job, and it is much handier than just a regular slotted spoon when it comes to fishing one piece of pasta out of the pot to test it for doneness.
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