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Sep 09 2008 3 Comments

Pastime or parts off?

Fairly well-known outside these fair shores, the second-hand retailer, Hard Off, and its pastime related partner, Hobby Off, conjure up considerably quaint, even cute, connotations.

Hobby Off

However, when it comes to the pair’s car related cousin, the name is nowhere near as nice.

Unnecessarily nasty even.

Parts Off

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  1. Tomu says

    9/9/2008 at 9:48 pm

    I’m not hard off after seeing that!!

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  2. Paul says

    9/9/2008 at 9:51 pm

    Zoinks! That sounds painful.

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  3. Ted T says

    9/10/2008 at 9:26 am

    Good thing they don’t sell sod in this country…

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