 Sunday evening
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After band practice, at 5:30pm. I jumped on Matilda to head home. Man its hot so I headed up to the petrol station to top the tank off and get some cold water. As I stood at the register I remembered that when I was in junior high school we made a joke that one day some one will make a fortune selling water in bottles at gas stations.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Check Pants
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Check Pants
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I'm waiting for vending machines containing 10oz returnable glass bottles of Coca-Cola  jh
"It's not what I say that's important, it's what you hear" Red Auerbach
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Loquacious
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Loquacious
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dont they have those new machines that take your empty plastic bottles and give you points toward new ones?
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Should be Riding
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Should be Riding
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I flat out refuse to buy water in a bottle. Tea, soda, Gatorade... anything but water.
Always remember to be yourself. Unless you suck. Then pretend to be someone else.
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Loquacious
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Loquacious
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yeah me too, I refuse drinking it as well.
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Fe Butt
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Fe Butt
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Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Saddle Sore
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Saddle Sore
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Spell "Evian" backwards . There ya go . ( That's if anyone on a bike would HAVE to have a designer swig ) 
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Loquacious
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Loquacious
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I think I like Evian more now that Ive learned this. Theres a certain kind of respect that needs to be given to a company that insults their own customers.
"drink it and like it you sheep"!
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Second Wind
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You know what the funniest part of it is?????????
I found a water bottling plant, the fresh spring water comes straight out of the city water supply and is ozone-ated, filtered then bottled, labeled, and shippped out.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Loquacious
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Too old to die young, too ugly to leave a good looking corpse
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Ha! haaaaa........ thats funny, but no. I was actually in Littlerock Arkansas, thats right a brand you all may well know.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Loquacious
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Pepsi's Aquafina and Coca~Cola's Dasani brands are nothing but city water, filtered and with some added minerals. And then you've got all the toxic chemicals in the plastic bottle... I want to see a return to glass bottles. Then in my old age (after Social Security is gone and my retirement funds have tanked), I can work at the grocery store sorting bottles like I did as a teen. 
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Complete Newb
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Complete Newb
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I've never been able to figure out why there's an expiry date on bottled water. What's gonna happen to it?
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Learned Hand
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Quote:
I've never been able to figure out why there's an expiry date on bottled water. What's gonna happen to it?
It curdles silly. 
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Worn Saddle
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Worn Saddle
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One of the biggie news shows did a bit on bottled water last year, in New York City. The locals first took a few minutes to explain why they hated the water out of the tap. Then they took a blind taste test on 5 unmarked bottles of water, all but one, famous brands. The winner? New York City tap water! Hands down! 
Fidelis et Fortis
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