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TheRealNorth

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1. I was thinking about this yesterday....

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Tue Jan 18, 2022, 01:00 PM

Jan 2022

So true. I even remember my 6th grade teacher warning us to do well in school or else we would end up "flipping burgers". And that was in the late '80's.

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