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Gold Star: The Mercury's Web Comment of the Week!

by Alison Hallett • Jun 2, 2011 at 1:59 pm

Two winners this week. On Sarah's post about the proposal to enter the Portland Building into the National Register of Historic Places:

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I hereby declare WWHRD to be the official moral compass of Blogtown. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go exercise my self-interest by fucking somebody Nordic.

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