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What are the best Craigslist advertisements of all time?

1st August 2013

My answer to What are the best Craigslist advertisements of all time? on Quora

Hey Crackhead remains my all-time favourite craigslist posting. It’s too good to quote one extract—you just have to read the whole thing.

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