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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.

    Cut Down a Tree with a Ten-Dollar Knife 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Uncategorized Blog Posts 2009

  • 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

  • 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.

    I Dream of English Doubles 2009

  • 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.

    Very Little Drops Dead 2008

  • 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.

    Rebirth of the Remington Custom Shop 2008

  • 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

  • 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.

    Petzal on Camera: Interviews from the 2008 SHOT Show 2008

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