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  • But this is a one-ply tissue of an argument, because as we all know, the inevitable march of inflation drives up ticket prices each year and in the case of summer 2010, many chains added surcharges to the cost of a 3D ticket, and there were quite a few of those exchanging hands.

    Hollywood must plot a new course to win back its audience 2010

  • Looks like they took one of those El Cheapo “over the door shoe pair holders” that handle a dozen and made four DeLuxe holders for their ultra plush one-ply industrial toilet tissue.

    Regretsy – Wall Paper 2010

  • "Whether the evidence was two-ply or one-ply remained unknown," according to the Lincoln Journal-Star's account.

    Man robs store wearing toilet-paper mask, police say 2010

  • Webb is also probably smart enough not to run with Obama, whose resume is as thin as a one-ply tissue. —

    In Case You Ask: Webb Declines Veep Role - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • "Whether the evidence was two-ply or one-ply remained unknown," according to the Lincoln Journal-Star's account.

    Man robs store wearing toilet-paper mask, police say 2010

  • Until now, I've harbored something close to shame over my one-ply lifestyle, but no more.

    Jane Devin: Broke is the New Cool 2009

  • For dessert: a jar of prune mush and three squares of one-ply.

    Archive 2007-04-01 2007

  • The stalls are constructed out of flat sheets of cheap plywood painted white, and the toilet paper is appropriately economical one-ply with no embossed pattern.

    Discrete 2008

  • The stalls are constructed out of flat sheets of cheap plywood painted white, and the toilet paper is appropriately economical one-ply with no embossed pattern.

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • I've had to use the thinnest, scratchiest bathroom toilet paper, the kind that isn't even one-ply, it's like half-ply, to clean up my poopy sons in restaurant bathrooms.

    Hold The Mustard 2008

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