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"Ophelia" > wrote in message
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> "Cheri" > wrote in message
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>> "Dave Smith" > wrote in message
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>>> On 2014-07-07 11:25 AM, jmcquown wrote:
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>>>> I'm an exception, too. I've never bought one of those tabloid rags and
>>>> never will. But yes, *someone* is buying them.
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>>> One of life's big disappointment is to be in a grocery store checkout
>>> line behind a very attractive woman.... and then she grabs one of those
>>> gossip rags. You are struck with the reality of the notion that brains
>>> and beauty do not mix.

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>> Well, I do see men buying them too. When I worked at a drugstore, the new
>> ones came out on Wednesdays and several older men would be there to buy
>> them. More women for sure though.

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> They could be buying them at the request of their wives ... couldn't
> they?


A couple maybe, but at the time it was a very small town less than 3000
people, we lived there for 15 years, so we knew who actually had a
wife...but by the same token the women could be buying them for their
husbands, right? :-)

Cheri