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  • IMHO, Office 2007 is garbage, and should soon join Vista in the junkheap of failed software.

    ODIN Introduces Microsoft Office 2007 - in 2009 - NASA Watch 2009

  • Ginny had forgotten to bring napkins but was not willing to get up from sitting on the floor between Myra's legs, so she told Gillam he could wipe his hands on the sofa cushions, the couch was ready for the junkheap anyhow.

    MORE FROM GINNY BATES: PAINTERLAND Maggie Jochild 2007

  • You want to tell your friends about the concrete-brained imbecile who bought your baby and turned it into a junkheap on purpose?

    Coming Not Very Soon 2006

  • You want to tell your friends about the concrete-brained imbecile who bought your baby and turned it into a junkheap on purpose?

    July 2006 2006

  • Unless it's an abandoned junkheap you can sleep in.

    Archive 2005-09-01 2005

  • For the next time I started up GiGi, my usually trusty G4, it had passed on to the great junkheap in the sky.

    adieu GiGi | the blog of author, illustrator and designer Kris Waldherr 2005

  • For the next time I started up GiGi, my usually trusty G4, it had passed on to the great junkheap in the sky.

    2005 July | the blog of author, illustrator and designer Kris Waldherr 2005

  • He came blasting out of space, braked with a spume of flame from the forward jets, and kicked the Weekender into a tight spin around the junkheap.

    The Stars My Destination Bester, Alfred 1956

  • He came blasting out of space, braked with a spume of flame from the forward jets, and kicked the Weekender into a tight spin around the junkheap.

    The Stars My Destination Bester, Alfred 1956

  • There were a lot of things in it, machinery and vehicles, all battered and in poor condition, dusty and cobwebbed: the spaceport junkheap.

    The Cosmic Computer H. Beam Piper 1934

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