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#1 2025-04-27 08:25:43

David Bird
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From: The Hammer, Ontario
Registered: 2009-07-28
Posts: 1709

Hard to come buy

I don’t disagree. These are unfortunately not cheap to come buy.
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probably number one issue with a “broken” gameboy. But usually a little vinegar can clean it right up and get it working. Also big modding presence now so replacement parts are easy and cheap to come buy.
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Employees are not cheap to come buy these days and your small business might not just be able to get the right and the most qualified hands.
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You might argue about this, but let me inform you that the silk we buy in the market is only a cut out of silk. Silk in it self is really expensive to come buy.
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I believe this one is late 50s vintage.. These are hard and expensive to come buy…
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Adam Hughes art is extremely expensive for the average comic book art fan. His early sketches are even more rare and hard to come buy
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I ran into the first quote on a reddit forum. Its omegacorn-era revelation might be because it’s hidden when spoken. As hard to come buy it’s contaminated by someone’s business name.

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#2 2025-04-27 09:22:38

kem
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From: Victoria, BC
Registered: 2007-08-28
Posts: 2884

Re: Hard to come buy

Omegacorn? Are we in the eggcorn end times?


Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.

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#3 2025-04-27 10:44:02

David Bird
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From: The Hammer, Ontario
Registered: 2009-07-28
Posts: 1709

Re: Hard to come buy

We’re in the infinite asymptotic tail that never reaches zero, I think. There are still prime numbers but they’re fewer and farther between.

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#4 2025-04-28 18:02:50

DavidTuggy
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From: Mexico
Registered: 2007-10-11
Posts: 2767
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Re: Hard to come buy

Yes, I think you’re right, Tocayo. Most of those I see have already been caught; fewer new ones abound.


*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .

(Possible Corollary: it is, and we are .)

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