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sulphurdunn

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20. Uninhabited land?

Reply to Octafish (Reply #9)

Mon Sep 24, 2012, 08:09 PM

Sep 2012

What inhabited land? If being uninhabited by humans is the criterion, I would suggest building one of these company towns on Wall Street. Oh, yea, I forgot. It already is one.

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