Multiple listings of each App under Open With?

In Mountain Lion in the finder when I right click on a file and select Open With I see several listing of each suggested App. How can I get rid of the extras?

Your launch services database is corrupted. The only fix is to run an obscure OS X framework command from the terminal app. The following information has been run on my ML 10.8.1 system and fixed this issue.
Type Command + Shift + U. Now launch the Terminal app.
Change your directory location. The following long string needs to be typed on one command line. For legibility in this post, I have introduced a UNIX command line continuation character (\).
$ pushd /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A \
/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support
Now you want to run the utility to refresh the launch services database. This will be brief.
$ lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
Now go back to your home directory:
$ popd
exit the Terminal.
Now check your "Open with" menus.
Message was edited by: VikingOSX

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