The men were hungry, but their boss in the white helmet was a bit skeptical when I told him a guy working at a hot dog cart some 10 blocks away claimed to have 50 hot dogs he could sell them.

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Usually you see homeless people with a dog, it's a dog that's like the guy.

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Does that guy want to be going out on the dog show circuit?

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It's gonna happen wrong, and the guy's gonna be late because his dog got run over, and he's going to fix the wrong pipe, and when he takes it apart he's gonna say, 'Oops, the whole plumbing system's gonna have to go and dah dah dah and etc. etc. etc.

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When it came to who was top dog on the baseball side, the talent evaluator was out, the numbers guy was in.

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"I don't have a dog in this race, so I don't want to be painted as a guy who's trying to mask anything, " Payne said when Jackson lawyer Brian Panish suggested he was downplaying concerns about Jackson's health in the days before he died.

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He claims an early personal lesson in how red tape is a proportionately bigger burden for the small guy: in college Mr Lindsey faced reams of red tape when trying to set up a summertime hot-dog stall.

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