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Third Time’s… Well, It’s the Third Time

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Posted on July 15, 2008 - 7:20pm at Tiny Cat Pants
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So, I put an offer in on the Charlotte Park house.  A great deal less than the seller wants.  But we went out this afternoon with a tape measure and a question, and that question was “How can a 1100 square foot house only show 940 square feet on the tax record?”

The longest home run ever hit

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Posted on April 17, 2008 - 5:21pm at Right Minded
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Jeff Passan has a column on tape-measure home runs.

How Government Works

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Posted on October 13, 2007 - 10:41am at Capitol Gal
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Three contractors - a black guy, a Mexican, and a good ol' boy - are bidding to fix a broken fence at the Bicentennial Mall. They go together with an official to examine the fence.

The black contractor takes out a tape measure and does some measuring, then works up some figures.

"Well," he says, "I figure the job will run about $900: $400 for materials, $400 for my crew and $100 profit for me."

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