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shoplineca
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I thought that it might be fun to post a daily quote armed with a bit of humour. Everyone is invited to add theirs, but lets keep them (somewhat) clean.

Saturday's Quotes (based on work):
Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether.

There are two kinds of people in life: people who like their jobs, and people who don't work here anymore.

Pride, commitment, teamwork--words we use to get you to work for free.

Work: It isn't just for sleeping anymore.

Malcolm




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It looks like my post yesterday was pulled which I dont understand. They were quotes from the wolrd's most sucessful salesman, nothing rude, or suggestive or restrictive and no notice sent to me why or that it was being yanked. Such a shame as they were very sensible and motivational statements. Such a shame.

Well here are some new ones, this time from Winston Churchill, that I think can help us in our eBay sales and life in general:

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."

Malcolm








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OK so I blew it. My salesman quotes were #39. I am off to a bad day. I guess I should tak an hour and follow some of what I post and change it.

Malcolm
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After today's bombshell from eBay we can probably all use a chortle or two, so here goes (again shamelessly swiped from the .com board):

Facts to ponder

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
(Hardly seems worth it.)

If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
(Now that's more like it!)

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
(O.M.G.!)

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
(In my next life, I want to be a pig.)

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
(Creepy.)(I'm still not over the pig.)

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
(Do not try this at home...... maybe at work.)

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
("Honey, I'm home. What the....?!")

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
(30 minutes... lucky pig... can you imagine??)

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
(What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
(I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality over quantity)

Butterflies taste with their feet.
(Something I always wanted to know.)

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
(Hmmmmmm........even in the pig?)

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
(If you're ambidextrous, do you split the
difference?)

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
(OK, so that would be a good thing....)

A cat's urine glows under a black light.
(I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
(I know some people like that.)

Starfish have no brains.
(I know some people like that too.)

Polar bears are left-handed.
(If they switch, they'll live a lot longer.)

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex
for pleasure.
(What about that pig??)

Glenda

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Dont tell the farmer that the sheep are faking it!
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Time for some humour on this board. It is getting too stale and too serious:

He who laughs last, thinks slowest.

Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.

A day without sunshine is like, well, night.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.

I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.

When the chips are down, the buffalo is empty.

Seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it.

Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.

I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe.

He's not dead, he's electroencephalographically challenged.

You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted, then used against you.

I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges.

Honk if you love peace and quiet.

Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how it remains so popular?

Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool.

It is hard to understand how a cemetery raised its burial cost and blamed it on the cost of living.

Just remember...if the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off.

The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

It is said that if you line up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would be stupid enough to try and pass them.

You can't have everything, where would you put it?

Latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the world's population.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those who got there first.

A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.

It was recently discovered that research causes cancer in rats.

Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter since nobody listens.

I wished the buck stopped here, as I could use a few.

I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it.

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Malcolm
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Thursday's chuckle or two:

Is this how we all ended up selling on eBay??

My first job was working in an orange juice factory, but I got canned: couldn't concentrate.

Then I worked in the woods as a lumberjack, but I just couldn't hack it, so they gave me the axe.

After that I tried to be a tailor, but I just wasn't suited for it. Mainly because it was a sew-sew job.

Next I tried working in a muffler factory but that was exhausting.

I wanted to be a barber, but I just couldn't cut it.

Then I tried to be a chef--figured it would add a little spice to my life, but I just didn't have the thyme.

Finally, I attempted to be a deli worker, but any way I sliced it, I couldn't cut the mustard.

My best job was being a musician, but eventually I found I wasn't noteworthy.

I studied a long time to become a doctor, but I didn't have any patients.

Next was a job in a shoe factory; I tried but I just didn't fit in.

I became a professional fisherman, but discovered that I couldn't live on my net income.

Thought about becoming a witch, so I tried that for a spell.

I managed to get a good job working for a pool maintenance company, but the work was just too draining.

I got a job at a zoo feeding giraffes but I was fired because I wasn't up to it.

So then I got a job in a health club, but they said I wasn't fit for the job.

Next, I found being an electrician interesting, but the work was shocking.

After many years of trying to find steady work I finally got a job as a historian until I realized there was no future in it.

My last job was working at Tim Hortons, but I had to quit because it was always the same old grind.

Malcolm
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What, oh what would Friday be without a little humour to get us off on the right foot (or the left as the case may be)?

A satiracal look at the way we do things in North America for this Friday morning:

1. Only in North America ......can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.

2. Only in North America ......are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.

3. Only in North America ......do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.

4. Only in North America ......do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a diet coke.

5. Only in North America ......do banks leave both doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.

6. Only in North America ......do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.

7. Only in North America ......do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to in the first place.

8. Only in North America ......do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.

9. Only in North America ......do we use the word 'politics' to describe the process so well: 'Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'.

10. Only in North America ......do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.

Malcolm

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Sunday humour:

1. Save the whales. Collect the whole set.
2. A day without sunshine is like, night.

3. On the other hand, you have different fingers.

4. I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.

5. 42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.

6. 99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

7. I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe.

8. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted, then used against you.

9. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges.

10. Honk if you love peace and quiet.

11. Remember half the people you know are below average.

12. Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how popular it remains?

13. Nothing is fool-proof to a talented fool.

14. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

15. He who laughs last thinks slowest.

16. Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

17. Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

18. The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

19. I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

20. I intend to live forever - so far so good.

21. Borrow money from a pessimist - they don't expect it back.

22. If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

23. Mind like a steel trap - rusty and illegal in most states.

24. Quantum mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of.

25. The only substitute for good manners is fast reflexes.

26. Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have.

27. When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane and going the wrong way.

28. If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

29. A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

30. Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

31. For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism.

32. Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.

33. Never do card tricks for the group you play poker with.

34. No one is listening until you make a mistake.

35. Success always occurs in private and failure in full view.

36. The colder the x-ray table the more of your body is required on it.

37. The hardness of butter is directly proportional to the softness of the bread.

38. The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the ability to reach it.

39. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

40. To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.

41. Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life.

42. You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.

43. Two wrongs are only the beginning.

44. The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.

45. The sooner you fall behind the more time you'll have to catch up.

46. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

47. Change is inevitable except from vending machines.

48. Get a new car for your spouse - it'll be a great trade!

49. Plan to be spontaneous - tomorrow.

50. Always try to be modest and be proud of it!

51. If you think nobody cares, try missing a couple of payments.

52. How many of you believe in telekinesis? Raise my hand...

53. Love may be blind but marriage is a real eye-opener.

54. If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving isn't for you.

55. If you have lost something, it will be in the last place you look for it.

56. If you are supposed to learn from your mistakes, why do some people have more than one child.

57. If you are supposed to learn from your mistakes, why do some people get married more than once.

58. If your feet smell and your nose runs, you've been made upside-down.

59. Everything you like is bad for you in some way.

60. If a job is worth doing, then get someone in to do it properly.

Malcolm
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More swiped from the .com board:

These little slogans started my day with a smile!

Sign over a Gynecologist's Office:
"Dr. Jones, at your cervix."
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In a Podiatrist's office:
"Time wounds all heels."
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On a Septic Tank Truck in Oregon:
Yesterday's Meals on Wheels
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On a Septic Tank Truck sign:
"We're #1 in the #2 business."
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At a Proctologist's door
"To expedite your visit please back in."
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On a Plumber's truck:
"We repair what your husband fixed."
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On a Plumber's truck:
"Don't sleep with a drip. Call your plumber.."
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Pizza Shop Slogan:
"7 days without pizza makes one weak."
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At a Tire Shop in Milwaukee:
"Invite us to your next blowout."
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On a Plastic Surgeon's Office door:
"Hello. Can we pick your nose?"
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At a Towing company:
"We don't charge an arm and a leg. We want tows."
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On an Electrician's truck:
"Let us remove your shorts."
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In a Nonsmoking Area:
"If we see smoke, we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action."
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On a Maternity Room door:
"Push. Push. Push."
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At an Optometrist's Office
"If you don't see what you're looking for, you've come to the right place."
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On a Taxidermist's window:
"We really know our stuff."
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On a Fence:
"Salesmen welcome! Dog food is expensive."
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At a Car Dealership:
"The best way to get back on your feet - miss a car payment."
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Outside a Muffler Shop:
"No appointment necessary. We hear you coming."
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In a Veterinarian's waiting room:
"Be back in 5 minutes. Sit! Stay!"
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At the Electric Company:
"We would be delighted if you send in your payment.
However, if you don't, you will be."
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In a Restaurant window:
"Don't stand there and be hungry, Come on in and get fed up."
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In the front yard of a Funeral Home:
"Drive carefully. We'll wait."
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At a Propane Filling Station,
"Thank heaven for little grills."
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And don't forget the sign at a Chicago Radiator Shop:
"Best place in town to take a leak.
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Glenda

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Along your same line, sign in a Barbershop window "

Due to alterations in the front of our barbershop, customers will be shaved in the rear!"

Malcolm
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Good one Malcolm, and a super fit!!

Glenda
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Time to get a little serious here as we often expect eBay to be 100% responsible for our business sucess:

"Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but by how we react to what happens, not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life. A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, a spark that creates extraordinary results."

Malcolm
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Thanks Winston for the following:

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."

Malcolm
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Monday end of January, 2005:

1. Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either. Just pretty much leave me the hell alone.

2. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a leaky tire.

3. It's always darkest before dawn. So if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it.

4. Sex is like air. It's not important unless you aren't getting any.

5. Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.

6. No one is listening until you fart.

7. Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them you're a mile away and you have their shoes.

8. If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.

9. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

10. If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.

11. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

12. Some days you are the bug; some days you are the windshield.

13. Don't worry; it only seems kinky the first time.

14. Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

15. The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket.

16. A closed mouth gathers no foot.

17. Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

18. There are two theories to arguing with women.
Neither one works.

19. Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

20. We are born naked, wet and hungry, and get slapped on our as s... Then things get worse.

21. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

22. There is a fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."

23. No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.

24. Everyone seems normal until you get to know them.

Malcolm
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First of February 2005 Quotes on a lighter side:
1. A bicycle can't stand alone because it is two-tired.

2. What's the definition of a will? (It's a dead giveaway).

3. Time flies like an arrow . Fruit flies like a banana.

4. A backward poet writes inverse.

5. In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism, it's your count that votes.

7. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.

8. If you don't pay your exorcist you get repossessed.

9. With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.

10. Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft and I'll show you A-flat minor.

11. When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.

12. The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered.

13. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.

14. You feel stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.

15. Local Area Network in Australia: the LAN down under.

16. He often broke into song because he couldn't find the key.

17. Every calendar's days are numbered.

18. A lot of money is tainted. 'Taint yours and 'taint mine.

19. A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.

20. He had a photographic memory which was never developed.

21. A plateau is a high form of flattery.

22. The short fortuneteller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.

23. Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.

24. When you've seen one shopping center you've seen a mall.

25. Those who jump off a Paris bridge are in Seine.

26. When an actress saw her first strands of gray hair she thought she'd dye.

27. Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.

28. Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.

29. Acupuncture is a jab well done.

30. Marathon runners with bad footwear suffer the agony of defeat.

Malcolm



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To "B" or not to "B"...

Baby-Sitter: 1) A teen-ager who must behave like an adult so that adults may behave like teen-agers. 2) One you hire to watch TV.

Bachelor: 1) A man who Mrs. nothing. 2) An unaltared male.

Bacteria: Lunchroom for chiropractors.
 
Bail: 1) Made hay.  2)  A “clanging” metal instrument in the south.

Bailiff: Dried up leaf, used in cooking.

Bald: When you’re taller than your hair.  

Balderdash: Rapidly receding hairline.

Baloney: Where some hemlines fall.

Banality: Any joke about a banana. For example:..

Bananosecond: Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement.  

Bandwidth: Limited by the size of the stage.

Bar: What a Southerner hunts in the woods.  

Bar Stool: What hillbillies sometimes step in.

Barbarous: Bad hair cut.  

Bard: Past tense of "to borrow."

Bargain: Buy two soaps and get one free.

Barium: What you do with dead chemists.  

Barn: Having a loan of.

Baroque: When you are out of Monet.

Barren: A naked bird.

Baud Rate: Prostitution Fee.

Bawlroom: Hospital nursery.

Beach: Where girls go when they have nothing to wear.

Beach Wiccan: A sand witch.

Beatnik: Santa Claus the day after Christmas.

Beauty: 1) [Internal] A quality that most times comes from within - jars, tubes and bottles; 2) [External] Given by Mother Nature and taken by Father Time.

Beauty parlour: A place where women curl up and dye.  

Beckon: Slices of pork.

Bee: Fly with a fur coat.

Beheading: Loss of face.

Belittle: Shrink!

Belly button: Salt holder when eating celery in bed.

Benign: What you be after you be eight.  

Bernadette: The act of torching a mortgage.

Bigamist: An Italian fog.  

Bigamy: Only crime where two rites make a wrong.

Bigotry: One of the California redwoods.

Bikini: Public Waist.

Biplane:  Underwear purchase advice.

Bipolar: Eskimo marketing slogan.

Bit: Unit by which computer programmers lose their sanity.

Black hole: 1) God dividing by zero. 2) The "subway" of the universe.

Blunderbuss: Vehicle used for random traveling.  

Bodybuilder:  Fit for nothing.

Book: The original random access device.

Bottom: What the shopper did when she found the shoes that she wanted.

Boulder: Less timid.

Boy: A noise with dirt on it. 

Boycot: Bed for a young man - not the girlcot.

Bother: a Pooh poo.

Bouyant: Male hill insect.

Bore: Someone who talks about himself when he should be talking about yourself.

Bowel: A letter like A, E, I, O, or U.

Brain: The apparatus with which we think that we think.

Breadth: A wide loaf.

Buccaneer: Unit cost of corn on the cob.

Bucktooth: Going rate for the tooth fairy.

Budget: 1) A record of what the money should have been spent for.2) Methodical debt incursion.

Buffalo: Greeting between two nudists.

Buffet: French for making a pig of yourself.  

Bulimia: Retched excess.

Bulldozer: Someone who sleeps through political speeches.

Bungalow: Unfortunate buffalo that can't do anything right.  

Bunion: Paul's surname.

Bunny: Bakery characteristic.

Bureaucat: A kitty who sleeps on your undies.

Burglarize: What a crook sees with.

Bust: Stone representation of someone ahead of their time.
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Thanks to Henry Ford for this one:

"You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do."

Malcolm
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TGIF Feb 4th (My how time flies):

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

Malcolm

(Thanks Winnie for that one)

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Saturday, February 5, a few for the day:

"A consultant: Someone who borrows, your watch, tells you the time and then charges you for the privilege."

"We didn't actually overspend our budget. The allocation simply fell short of our expenditure."

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."

This should be eBay's slogan:
"A bargain is something you can't use at a price you can't resist."

Malcolm
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Sunday, February 6, 2005:

"Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell."

"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them."

"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it."

Malcolm
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