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There's nothing inherently lame about electricity. i've got a basement full of power tools that all operate with electricity, and they're manly items. and when you see a great big locomotive hauling a mile of freight cars, that's a hybrid. a lot of people don't understand that.
-P. J. O'Rourke
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There's Nothing Inherently Lame About Electricity. I've

P. J. O'Rourke
There's nothing inherently lame about electricity. i've got a basement full of power tools that all operate with electricity, and they're manly items. and when you see a great big locomotive hauling a mile of freight cars, that's a hybrid. a lot of people don't understand that.
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