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Size Queen

December 17, 2004

Still trying to figure out what to get me for Christmas?
Here’s an idea for you:

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Alright, alright, alright, this war between Samsung, LG, and whoever else to see who can build the world’s largest plasma TV has got to stop right now. Samsung, you just rolled out your new oversized 102-inch display, that’s great, but we’re already having trouble scraping together the $45,000 we’ll need to buy the 80-inch plasma display you came out with a few months ago, so don’t make things any worse for us, ok? How could we possibly be happy with the 80-incher knowing there was something a bigger and badder out there? You know we’ve sort of got this problem.

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