HardCircle.net » Fashion http://www.hardcircle.net Personal blog of Ian Bailey-Leung Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:10:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Ice Cream Funeral http://www.hardcircle.net/2006/07/20/ice-cream-funeral/ http://www.hardcircle.net/2006/07/20/ice-cream-funeral/#comments Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:16:53 +0000 ian http://www.hardcircle.net/2006/07/20/ice-cream-funeral/ Ice Cream at a Funeral

There’s an article at the New York Times about another industry that’s being forced to offer choices to the baby boomer demographic. Funerals. In the picture above, Harry Ewell had an ice cream truck in the cemetary.

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]]> http://www.hardcircle.net/2006/04/05/gold-red-gold/feed/ 0 Canadian Internet Fashion http://www.hardcircle.net/2006/03/20/canadian-internet-fashion/ http://www.hardcircle.net/2006/03/20/canadian-internet-fashion/#comments Tue, 21 Mar 2006 04:42:09 +0000 ian http://www.hardcircle.net/2006/03/20/canadian-internet-fashion/ So usually, when you find an online store, you have to pay duties when they import whatever product it is into your country. So when you find a store in your country, that sells something you can’t find anywhere else, you tend to notice.

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