"People wonder why I bother with the tie, " he says.

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So why am I telling you not to bother with this download if I myself have played with it?

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After all, why bother with an unreliable world of channel surfing when I have 22 years of Cheers and Frasier to work my way through?

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"Being a first-time father kept me so preoccupied for a few years that I didn't really bother thinking about the downstream effects of not keeping in touch with anyone, " Spenser says.

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Were I to run for office, one promise I would make (and one which may well decide the vote) would be to not bother my constituents with unsolicited calls, especially ones that were no more than a recording.

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