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Wonder if combining two once decent makers will produce a good one - or
push them further down market?

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On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:20:42 +0000, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:


Wonder if combining two once decent makers will produce a good one - or
push them further down market?


This was mentioned on alt.home.repair the other day, and someone mentioned
that they might result in tools branded BS... :-)



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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Jules
saying something like:

On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:20:42 +0000, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:


Wonder if combining two once decent makers will produce a good one - or
push them further down market?


This was mentioned on alt.home.repair the other day, and someone mentioned
that they might result in tools branded BS... :-)


Or BDSM.
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