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Irish_Dem
(79,267 posts)1. And the kids only get two pencils.
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bucolic_frolic
(53,761 posts)2. Indirectly citizens pay for the ballroom
either through taxes or corporate donations which is a drain on corporations and raises the prices they must charge.
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eppur_se_muova
(40,832 posts)3. Bah, Humbug ! (Humbug meant a charade, a fraud, in Dickens' time)
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a
: something designed to deceive and mislead
Their claims are humbug.
b
: a willfully false, deceptive, or insincere person
He's just an old humbug.
denounced as humbugs the playwrights who magnify the difficulties of their craft
Times Literary Supplement
2
: an attitude or spirit of pretense and deception
in all his humbug, in all his malice and hollowness
Mary Lindsay
3
: nonsense, drivel
academic humbug
4
British : a hard usually peppermint-flavored candy
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/humbug
a
: something designed to deceive and mislead
Their claims are humbug.
b
: a willfully false, deceptive, or insincere person
He's just an old humbug.
denounced as humbugs the playwrights who magnify the difficulties of their craft
Times Literary Supplement
2
: an attitude or spirit of pretense and deception
in all his humbug, in all his malice and hollowness
Mary Lindsay
3
: nonsense, drivel
academic humbug
4
British : a hard usually peppermint-flavored candy
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/humbug
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Mollyann
(146 posts)4. That is enough square footage
For 30 three thousand square foot homes or 60 1500 hundred square foot homes.
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