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[tanwen.livejournal.com]

I had no idea dollar stores had been around so long! Now would someone be so kind as to tell me what the hell a "Fine Carbuncle Set" is exactly?

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[aj-hyena.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbuncle_%28gemstone%29

[tanwen.livejournal.com]

Awesome, thank you!

[gatepromise.livejournal.com]

Oh. I thought a carbuncle were those puffy things you get sometimes in your creases. After a hot shower, you poke it with a pin and drain the pus out.

[purplesocks.livejournal.com]

I thought it was what happened when your uncle ate too much bread.

[glass-houses.livejournal.com]

womp womp

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

Back in the time of this ad, a dollar was a lot of money.

[samtyr.livejournal.com]

I wish I had some of that "dollar" jewelry now.

[jocelmeow.livejournal.com]

Well, the concept of a price-point store isn't new. The dollar store used to be the five and ten or the dime store (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety_store#North_America).

[glass-houses.livejournal.com]

1861 is decidedly further back than that.

[jocelmeow.livejournal.com]

So it is. I can't say I noted the date on the ad.

[glass-houses.livejournal.com]

S'ok. It was the first thing I noticed. So old!

[kyspaz.livejournal.com]

I always thought that carbuncles were a type of foot problem, like corns. I also thought that a veruca was a type of wart.

[stasia]

All I can think of is that Tom Riddle's opened a Five and Dime and ... well, that's more than my brain can handle right now.

Stasia

[nyxalinth.livejournal.com]

I guess everything he sells would be a Horcrux!

[tanwen.livejournal.com]

Good catch! I missed that entirely!