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“Can we please just call the
new US-Mexico-Canada trade
agreement AFTA-NAFTA?”
— Carolyn Adolph, KUOW reporter, about how the revised
North American Free Trade Agreement will also have a new
name (the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement)
“Do NOT hit ‘reply all!’”
— A tongue-in-cheek warning from tech writer and
editor Kurt Schlosser at the 2018 GeekWire Summit, as
attendees at the Seattle event began receiving the first-ever
Presidential Alert message, which was sent to all cell phones
in the nation on Oct. 3.
“A new study found that hand
dryers in bathrooms spread more
germs than paper towels. And the
makers of hand dryers said, ‘But
don’t forget, we also don’t dry your
hands.’”
— Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon
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