Motoboys

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So in Sau Paulo Brazil they have so much traffic that do get anything delivered in a resonalble amount of time you have to employ a Motoboy. Crazy guys who zip though (and over) the traffic jams on motorcyles. It's very dangerous, it is estimated that 2 motoboys die everyday. Back in the day, I would have called this very cyberpunk, but that now means "computer hacker" instead of "weirdly futuristic." Gibson has bike messengers in Virtual Light that are the Motoboys, as are Neal Stephenson's Skateboarders in Snow Crash.

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I hope they get hazard pay.

Dude, why haven't you blogged about Smoothie King being your dining establishment of choice?

Ugh, I tried some smoothie place last night. If that's what I have to eat I'm gonna lose a lot of weight.

Stay away from the low-carb smoothies at smoothie king, they tast like chalk or something. icky...

You need to have a smoothie off. Geez, that sounds sick and wrong.

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