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Customs, semi-customs, high-end production models, even plain-jane knives speak to us with their seductive blend of form and function and we respond by purchasing them without regard to reason or budget.
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Me - well, I preferred the good old plain-jane sourdough bagels, but Zesty Cheddar cream cheese all the way!
Quick, Before They See Me! Sarah 2009
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Coming soon to a science fiction plot near you: with the right software, a plain-jane webcam can be a 3D scanner.
Boing Boing 2009
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Customs, semi-customs, high-end production models, even plain-jane knives speak to us with their seductive blend of form and function and we respond by purchasing them without regard to reason or budget.
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Me - well, I preferred the good old plain-jane sourdough bagels, but Zesty Cheddar cream cheese all the way!
Archive 2009-02-01 Sarah 2009
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But thanks to the dollar/pound exchange rate even a plain-jane English boxlock double was more - way more - than what I could get by selling my spleen for medical research.
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I clearly remember a little 2. 5x Weaver scope on the rifle, which was a Remington plain-jane (but very accurate) Model 721 (722?) with a thick, heavy, 24 barrel.
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My 375 H&H came out of the Remington custom shop in 1982 (not for delivery to me as I was in fifth grade at the time ...) and it's a pretty plain-jane gun.
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She dreamt a regular, plain-jane girl and a drop-dead gorgeous, vampire boy, were in deep conversation in the middle of a meadow.
Twilight (copy) ____Maggie 2008
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We're going back this summer and I was hoping to try to buy an affordable plain-jane English SxS but the exchange rate I think has put the skids to that plan.
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