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Confusious

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6. Of course it's not literal

Sun Sep 30, 2012, 06:57 AM

Sep 2012

It's a piss poor comparison.

The only reason it stop being used was there were cheaper and poorer quality alternatives.

Not because it was crap.

PS. Lots of things have been relegated to historical artifact. She could have picked something that was replaced by something better or faster, like the buggy and the car. Or the Hindenburg and the plane. Or the sailing ship and the steam engine.

If she knew a little tech history, she would understand why it got relegated to history, and probably wouldn't have used it. But it's too much to ask political leaders to know about history and tech.

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