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Clark Boyd
Nov 21, 2021
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Hiya,

Remember when people would litter their speech with .com appendages, just to give it that contemporary ring?

Permit me to demonstrate:

Have you heard the new Celine Dion CD? It is the bomb.com!

OMG those Heelys are fly.com!

Anything could be .commed back then.

It’s all #this and #that these days, isn’t it?

Well one company wants to take us all back to…

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