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StellaBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-30-06 04:46 PM
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For July 4th, "Celebrate your freedom to SHOP!"
I just heard a lady with a horrible, nasal, twangy, Texas accent say this in a local TV commercial announcing a July 4th sale.

Seriously. :eyes: ?!?!?!?!?!
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Craig3410 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-30-06 04:47 PM
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1. It's the land of the free and the home of LOW, LOW PRICES!!
Yeah; I can believe it.
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Sanity Claws Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-30-06 04:48 PM
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2. an opiate for the masses
buy useless stuff and feel better about life
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-30-06 04:50 PM
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3. stores are open?
:wtf:
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-30-06 04:51 PM
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5. In Dallas, they're usually open 'til 6-7pm on July 4
"Freedom to shop," eh? Okee-dokee, I'll use my freedom to shop to buy an AK. How 'bout them apples?
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StellaBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-30-06 04:52 PM
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6. I won't be shopping.
Everyone, not just those of us who are lucky enough to have "white collar" jobs, should have the day off. Labor Day REALLY pisses me off for this reason.

I also refuse to shop on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and, when I was living in the UK, Boxing Day.
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-30-06 04:57 PM
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10. i wasnt planning to either
Its just further evidence that we are a nation of consumers and not citizens.
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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-30-06 05:53 PM
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15. stores are open everywhere. Why?
Where do you live? Even in Mass., the home of the "Blue Laws", the stores are open!
Even the liquer stores! (I think, not real sure!)

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1:133759701/Going+Fourth%3F+Whats+open,+closed+today~R~(News).html?refid=SEO
From: The Boston Herald | Date: July 4, 2005
The Boston Herald

Here's what will be open and closed for Monday, the Fourth of July.

- Retail and supermarkets:Open at owner's discretion

- Liquor stores and bars: Open

- Banks: Closed

- State, federal and municipal offices: Closed

- Libraries: Closed

- Mail: No regular delivery

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`

If they were open last year, they'll be open this year!
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originalpckelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-30-06 04:50 PM
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4. I think this quote from THX 1138 is fitting:
"Let us be thankful we have commerce. Buy more. Buy more now. Buy more and be happy."

http://www.thx-1138.org/ton/albums/script/script-thx1138.txt
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-30-06 04:52 PM
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7. Okay, I'm creeped out now
:scared:
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originalpckelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-30-06 05:10 PM
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12. DERBY 378 BUY MORE NOW!!!!
AND BE HAPPY!!!!
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-30-06 05:20 PM
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14. GREAT movie...
...and one of Coppola's first.
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chaplainM Donating Member (744 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-30-06 05:59 PM
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16. I think you meant to type
"George Lucas."
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-30-06 06:03 PM
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18. Actually, I did mean Coppola.
Don't get me wrong, I like George Lucas too, but Coppola has produced a few of my favorites...and THX 1138 is one of his first.
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chaplainM Donating Member (744 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-30-06 06:10 PM
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20. I sit corrected
He was executive producer. Fancy that!
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theboss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-30-06 04:54 PM
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8. Someone in America is using a holiday to sell a product?
The Hell you say.

I'm pretty sure I bought my carpeting during a Presidents' Day Sale.
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LiberalPartisan Donating Member (844 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-30-06 04:56 PM
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9. Welcom to America -
We don't make anything and we import everything.

Yeah - we won't be around much longer so get those low prices now!!
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Sherman A1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-30-06 05:03 PM
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11. Been in retail for years
and perhaps some stores are busy, but what I have seen of sales on the holiday are mostly a bust and I think they would do better being closed, but the brain trust that runs the places seems to think otherwise.
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tinfoil tiaras Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-30-06 05:19 PM
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13. That reminds me of this lady on this furnature store commercial
who has to have the most obnoxious voice in the world. My mom's like "I think her voice would have to put off people from shopping there."

rofl.
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chaplainM Donating Member (744 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-30-06 06:00 PM
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17. "We hold these BARGAINS to be self-evident!" nt
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-30-06 06:06 PM
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19. Only if there's a big sale.
:eyes:

Best Buy and the ilk don't have sales... and I wants me that expensive video card! But not at that price!
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TallahasseeGrannie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-30-06 06:30 PM
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21. Shopping on the Fourth?
Dear God! Personally, I will be performing the Declaration of Independence in full 1776 costume but with a mime nuance while my husband plays the accordian and my cat plays the harmonica and twirls around in circles.
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