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Greg Black

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If you’re not living life on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.


FQE30 at Qld Raceway 25 May 2003



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Wed, 02 Jun 2004

Quality workmanship, not

We recently paid a kitchen company a lot of money to put in a new kitchen. Part of the job included $250 for the installation of a range hood that we supplied. Chrissie has been complaining that the range hood is not doing as good a job as it ought, given its price.

I’ve just dismantled it and discovered why. The plumber failed to read the instructions. I know this because the instructions were still inside the unit, doing a pretty fair job of blocking the airflow and collecting a nice load of grease in the process.

Sometimes you get what you pay for; sometimes you don’t.