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Quick Note about a pet grammar peeve of mine.
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	If Bankers started chocking on "low salt" caviar.
9%	4 votes
	If Oil Company C.E.O.'s started catching the flu from small poor children.
2%	1 votes
	If it were proved that tanning beds could give you skin cancer. Oh, wait.
0%	0 votes
	If Coal companies discovered they could make another penny per ton by taking away workers hard hats.
7%	3 votes
	It were possible to develope a tax in support of politically impared politicians..
2%	1 votes
	If Aliens should land in a small southern town and start handing out gold and diamonds, which they consider insustrial waste. This would require a new regulation labeling gold as a toxic heavy metal, to be kept only by "responsible" citiznes - Republicans
9%	4 votes
	If it became popular to hunt Republicans, then guns would be illegal.
19%	8 votes
	If Mel Gibson started making movies again, he would have to be arrested.
4%	2 votes
	If the CEO's of Health Insurance Companies developed an alergy to the ink in the currency they roll around in every night.
4%	2 votes
	If Golf balls became rare, then it would have to be illegal to play putt-putt, because of all the balls lost in the windmills.
2%	1 votes
	Simple - a new federal regulation would make emergencies illegal.
38%	16 votes

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