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The Reviewer's LifeDedicated to the all-knowing cynics on the DPReview Forums
"We'd sell out, if only we knew how."— Jerry Garcia
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I was at our local shopping mall just the other day. Clearly we were being watched. My son ran ahead to drop quarters into that game where you fish for little stuffed animals with a three-clawed crane mechanism (I'm convinced no one ever wins at those games). I was momentarily alone. A furtive figure rushed up to me and blocked my path.
He was dressed in a trench coat and a fedora, had beads of sweat on his upper lip, and smelled vaguely of pizza. Wait a minute, that was the pizza shop we were standing right next to. Anyway, he seemed nervous, and wouldn't look me in the eye. I was just about to knock him out of my way with a forearm to the kisser when he pulled an envelope from the pocket of the trench coat.
"This is from the boss," he mumbled, in a high, dry voice.
"Whose boss?" I retorted. "I don't have a ...

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