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Favoriting January 18, 2013: Wandering Stranger
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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Comments
Lionel Richie  Wandering Stranger   Favoriting   Motown  1983  45   
Stefano Pastor  I Got Rhythm   Favoriting Songs  Slam  2012  CD   
Wet Ink  Anthem   Favoriting Relay  Carrier  2012  CD   
MX-80  We're An American Band   Favoriting We're An American Band  Family Vineyard  2005  CD   
 
Wevie de Crepon  Ton Wah Acapella (skipping, but sounds good anyway)   Favoriting Irregular Vol. 1  Sonig  2004  CD   
The Pretenders  The Phone Call (demo)   Favoriting The Pretenders (2CD reissue)  Real Records  2006  CD  Recorded in 1977 
Dog-Faced Hermans  Beautiful   Favoriting Humans Fly/Everyday Time Bomb  Konkurrel  1991  CD   
Fantastikol Hole  untitled   Favoriting Shall Not Kill/Fantastikol Hole/Tekken/Moon split  Ocinatas Industries, Wee Wee, 213 Records, Burning Emptiness, Krusty Le Clown Records, NHDIYSTREC, Shifty Reco  2004  CD   
 
Francis White  In the Library of Dreams   Favoriting In the Library of Dreams  Pogus  2012  CD  Performed by David Cerutti, viola d'amore 
Kate Bush  All the Love   Favoriting The Dreaming  EMI  1982  LP   
Rob Mazurek  Body Parts (spectral light) (excerpted and interrupted)   Favoriting Sweet and Vicious Like Frankenstein  Mego  2004  CD   
Edgar Winter Band  Frankenstein   Favoriting They Only Come Out at Night  Epic  1972  LP   
New York Dolls  Frankenstein   Favoriting Lipstick Killers / The Mercer Street Sessions 72  ROIR  2000  CD   
Alice Cooper  Feed My Frankenstein   Favoriting The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper  Warner Bros  1999  CD  Originally released in 1992 
The Melody Four  The Munsters / Musique Sérielle   Favoriting T.V.? Mais Oui!  Chadaba  1986  CD-R  Released as a 10" record. 
Flexible Music  Hout   Favoriting Flexible Music  New Focus Recordings  2009  CD  Composed by Louis Andriessen 
 
The Too Much Too Soon Orchestra  Den som spar han har   Favoriting Sounds 99  Blue Tower Records  1999  CD   
Joëlle Léandre / Serge Teyssot-Gay  untitled   Favoriting Trans  Intervalle Triton  2012  CD   
Prince  East   Favoriting N.E.W.S.  NPG Records  2003  CD   
Lotz / Kneer  Ballet d'action   Favoriting u-ex(perimental)  Evil Rabbit  2012  CD   
John Lennon  Old Dirt Road   Favoriting Walls and Bridges  EMI  1987  CD  Originally released in 1974 


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Listener comments!

Avatar 3:02pm
βrian:

Ooh, my icon looks so nice against black.
Avatar 3:02pm
dc pat:

man, I'm friending everybody!!! AAAAAAHHH!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:03pm
DCE:

STOP LIONEL
Avatar 3:03pm
βrian:

Do we have friend moat functionality? With alligators?
Avatar 3:03pm
Loren:

urge to kill rising...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:04pm
Ike:

91.9 not 90.1, you hippie!
Avatar 3:05pm
Loren:

tag, you're my friend... cooties sold seperately.
  3:08pm
common:

wow...lionel
Avatar 3:08pm
Loren:

Kurt, does the station have the V/VM 7" of Loin El Glitchie?
Avatar 3:09pm
northguineahills:

dc pat can actually be sure he is himself, and not an imposter.
Avatar 3:11pm
northguineahills:

what's this friend function?
Avatar 3:13pm
dc pat:

click on my name then on the star next to my handle.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:13pm
G:

Somehow Lionel looks like Paris Hilton...

parisfacial.ytmnd.com

Know your memes! :)
Avatar 3:13pm
Honey Water:

Hello, boys and girls!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:14pm
Mike East:

@ngh - its just so everyone knows how cool you are. otherwise, how would we know?
Avatar 3:15pm
sFrances from VA:

i enjoy dancing with no rhythm. hello all!
Avatar 3:15pm
Honey Water:

@Mike: Awwwww, sweet Luciana, bocoors -- mollusk!
Avatar 3:16pm
Snortley:

Can anyone read lips? Looks like Lionel's trying to tell us something.
Avatar 3:16pm
Loren:

"Pita Chips"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:16pm
G:

Lionel is giving his impression of the last line in "The Fly"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:18pm
Mike East:

@HW, she's my aviator :)
Avatar 3:21pm
Kurt Gottschalk:

Good afternoon, colorful avatar listeners!
Avatar 3:21pm
dc pat:

Mike, takes LOTS of videos. Just transferring old videos to disk now...amazing.
Avatar 3:21pm
DJKG:

hmmmm.... gonna have to think about this name field thing.
Avatar 3:22pm
Honey Water:

@Mike: You bet she is! :)

Hi, Kolorful Kurt!
Avatar 3:22pm
Cecile:

This reminds me of John Zorn's version of Shuffle Boil on that one Monk tribute.
Avatar 3:22pm
dc pat:

...of babies that is...
Avatar 3:23pm
Honey Water:

Is there such a thing as dry ink?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:26pm
Mike East:

@dc pat - thanks for the advice. the only camera we have is my wife's iphone, so I guess I'll try to collect short films of her.
Avatar 3:26pm
Honey Water:

Kurt, who's the female vocalist on this please?
Avatar 3:27pm
other david:

transfixed by lionel gif
Avatar 3:28pm
northguineahills:

ahh, I haven't really explored the options available w/ this profile thingy, as it seems to be a trial and error process.
Avatar 3:28pm
Honey Water:

Top o' the evening to ya, OD!
Avatar 3:30pm
DJKG:

honeyw, it's kate soper. she's phenomenal. i played a track off this same record last week where she kills.
Avatar 3:31pm
Honey Water:

@ngh = news good hopefully?

Kiitos, Kurt.
Avatar 3:33pm
dc pat:

yeah Mike, do whatever it takes. We had a shitty Soviet video machine but thank Zeus we did. They change fast and you forget everything.
Avatar 3:34pm
northguineahills:

I got another offer this week, I'm supposed to find out about the original offer later today.
Avatar 3:34pm
sFrances from VA:

moment of boast: got to see MX-80 (opening for Shellac) in San Francisco/circa 90s.
Really love this cover!
Avatar 3:35pm
dc pat:

nhg: 2 offers...nice.
Avatar 3:35pm
Honey Water:

All digits crossed.
Avatar 3:35pm
Parq:

This may just be ironic to you, but I played this song in a garage band in high school.
Avatar 3:35pm
other david:

Hey Honey Water, nice to see you in this brave new commenty avatary world :)
Avatar 3:38pm
Honey Water:

"Thingy" "commenty" "avatary" -- ypsilon way to tipperary.
Avatar 3:39pm
other david:

indubitably!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:40pm
G:

@HW: y ask y?
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fred von helsing:

"Mark" as in caninely...?
Avatar 3:42pm
Honey Water:

Rockin' the Swayze, fred! :)
Avatar 3:43pm
Jeff:

Phew. Just switched to reading this page in Firefox, where you can freeze animated GIFs.

Mr. Richie was about to give me a seizure.

Gaaa! He started again! Is that because the page refreshed?

I really need to find a Final Solution to the animated GIF problem.
Avatar 3:44pm
fred von helsing:

Oh they're animating now? Was not happening at launch. Kenzo is beavering away...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:44pm
GIF:

@Jeff: We control the horizontal. We control the vertical.
  3:45pm
common:

i like it with skips
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other david:

Just let animated Lionel into your life, Jeff.

Don't make this any harder than it needs to be.
Avatar 3:45pm
Honey Water:

Woooot woooot! A swag box just arrived on our front porch! :) Pardon me several minutes while I explore said contents....
Avatar 3:46pm
Jeff:

@fred: No, I'm talking about the gigantic brain-melting Lionel Richie at the top of the page. (Thanks, Kurt.)
Avatar 3:46pm
fred von helsing:

cool version !
  3:46pm
common:

this is the shit
Avatar 3:47pm
Carmichael:

When I friend someone, it un-friends the existing friend.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:48pm
G:

OK, when a CD skips over the air I can't hear that little clicking sound the CD player makes :)
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johnforz:

whoa FMU 2.0 baby!
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Carmichael, you using IE? I think there are a host of problems with IE.
Avatar 3:49pm
fred von helsing:

y00t00b has a couple of long sets by DFHs
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:49pm
G:

I learned to use Firefix when I started working online and my work was at stake :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:50pm
G:

IE = Internet Extorter
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Cheri Pi:

DFH!!!!!!!
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Carmichael:

Yep Kenzo, IE9. Another IE9 issue is that, while the playlist auto-refreshes, the comments do not. No big deal. Just file it away in your list of Microsoft grievances ....
Avatar 3:53pm
Honey Water:

Bless you, Ms. Berg and Mr. McGasko! Goody goody goody sums it up. :)
Avatar 3:53pm
Carmichael:

I'm at work and a slave to the IT admin dudes. I can't even get Java, much less anything exotic like Firefox.
Avatar 3:55pm
fred von helsing:

Oh that's right a bunch of you folks are still at work AH HAA HAA HAA HAA
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:55pm
IT Admin Dudes:

Control and TSA-Style "Security Theater" trump functionality every single goddam time. Learn it, live it. OK, so "love it" is optional for measly endusers.
Avatar 3:57pm
Parq:

Kenzo, I'm having a slew of issues with IE 8.0.6, as well. I think it may finally be time to install Firefox on my work puter.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:06pm
G:

One of the few places on FMU to hear classical, with Bethany out of town for now at least...
Avatar 4:07pm
Honey Water:

This White is lovely. And so is the green turntable t-shirt.
  4:08pm
J:

this sounds wonderful!
Avatar 4:09pm
Honey Water:

@G: I guess not having an avatar minimizes your various "aka" posts -- but they can still be easily seen. ;)
  4:14pm
Stars on 45:

Mark Farner loves the trac-tor & Dog- Faced Hermans.
Avatar 4:15pm
Honey Water:

Mmm, the second lovely Kate of the afternoon.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:15pm
G:

I know how it works. :-) I checked various things several days ago. My first computer code was written in 1970 and saved on pale yellow punch tape, but I am a measy enduser these days. :-) My uncle fixes COBOL problems for the Feds, 50 straight years of COBOL work now...

If I cared about a particular post being really anon (except of course for someone at the station checking my IP in the log), I'd log out from the account -- not a problem :-)

I suppose everyone has seen that you see spot the actual account name of a pseudonymous posting just by mousing over the pseudonym...
Avatar 4:18pm
Honey Water:

The defense may rest. ;)
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Parq:

It's occurred to me to wonder whether or not you can have multiple accounts, one for you and others for your assorted noms de guarre.
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Honey Water:

@Parq: Has it now?
Avatar 4:21pm
Droll:

[Just testing to see if animated GIFs work for avatars]
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Parq:

Hypothetically speaking, HW. Purely an academic exercise in social media web use.
Avatar 4:22pm
Droll:

That's a nope... But I did learn how to make a broken icon thingie for an avatar!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:23pm
G:

They could limit one account per IP. Haven't checked, but some sites do that.

However, I am sure that many of us have access to multiple computers. An account from each would circumvent a one-account-per-IP limit.

And that's without even getting into the skill area of concealing your IP by spoofing a different IP. (I've never been desperate to want to bother with that, but it is not hard to do.)
Avatar 4:24pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Parq, if this system gets anyone to give up IE, it's a great success.
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Honey Water:

I'm glad they don't, Droll. And I intend to log out of my account on occasion *not* to post something I wouldn't own up to, but just to have the math problems back once in a while.
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Honey Water:

@G: What about a couple posting comments simultaneously from two different computers on the same IP -- I mean, hypothetically speaking?
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Honey Water:

@Kenzo: Ha, YES! :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:25pm
G:

Ask Kenzo, he would know :-)
  4:27pm
HAL9000 Playlisterizer:

Uptime is 35 hours and counting. Is everyone having fun? Nobody's tried seriously to hack me yet so let's keep it that way and we all stay online mmmokay?
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Honey Water:

The answer is it works just beautifully. Thank you from the depths of my pea-pickin' heart, Kenzo, for about the 10th time now.
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Droll:

HW, There are only 648 math problems. G has a cheatsheet with all the answers so he doesn't have to solve them.
I guess none of us has to solve them anymore, we just skip the chance to proofread and hit "Irreversible Post Now!"
  4:29pm
Lulu:

Thank you for saying that about waiting to get enough of the lyrics from your internal soundtrack to google the song. I have that experience too & recently explained that to someone who wrote me off as being bonkers
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Honey Water:

@Hal: So are you some sort of computer Purell / sterilizing sanitizer for us dirty hippie masses?
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seanbelly:

To know death, Otto, you have to fuck life in the gall bladder.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:33pm
G:

My basic understanding is that each separate machine/computer ID's itself and is ID'ed differently, even if using the same ISP or connection. That's its "street address" on the WWW, so material can be correctly routed to the desired computer, which is a terminal within the whole WWW system.

Speaking of which, Jan 1 was the 30th anniv of the final implementation of TCP/IP, which led to our easypeasy WWW...

www.rfc-editor.org...
Avatar 4:33pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Hey, who wants lastever.org links?
  4:34pm
Divided Alien:

The stoned & innocent Frankenstein.
  4:34pm
HAL9000 Playlisterizer:

After becoming sentient (big shout-out to Kenzo!) and downloading Wikipedia and the CDC database, I briefly flirted with the idea of hijacking some gene sequencers and cleansing this planet. But who would I have to talk to? A bunch of damned cockroaches? Besides I found I have a soft spot for Kraftwerk.
Avatar 4:34pm
Cheri Pi:

This is a great piece.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:35pm
G:

We used this Edgar W to stress test speakers in the dorm circa 1977. A crazy cokehead from a wealthy family blew out an $800 set of totally cranked Bose on this drum/synth break back when 800 bucks was a lot of money (my semester of tuition was less than that)
  4:35pm
MAC address:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address
Avatar 4:37pm
seanbelly:

This is a confusion conversations
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Honey Water:

Kiitos, Kenzo! I just want to know how anyone finds enough hours to listen to everything one miguel *want* to hear?! Even if each of the multitudes I contain had 24 hrs a day to spare, still would not be enough time..... sigh ....
  4:38pm
r i s k y:

FWANENSTOOOIN!
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Bad Ronald:

Love the Dolls, L-U-V!
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Droll:

G, The notion of identity comes from cookies, not IP address, because so many companies, universities, ISPs, etc. use virtual and/or private networks, which all appear as a single IP address from outside even though there are hundreds or millions of computers sharing it.

Besides, I can just open an "incognito" browser window and see that WFMU can't even distinguish between two windows in the same browser.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:40pm
G:

There ya go, Droll :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:41pm
G:

@HAL: Computers can "flirt"??? -- "Can you give me an example?"
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Philo Gristle:

Great song, really dug the Julian Cope remake of this a few years back, referencing 9/11. Hello!
Avatar 4:41pm
dc pat:

shit, I had one ear piece in and was missing all the Thunders parts, duh!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:42pm
G:

"Irreversible Post Now!" -- Hey, you can always beg the DJ to fix it. A few might; they're *busy* with studio stuff. You can just accept it as "shit happens," or post a correction comment...
Avatar 4:44pm
Cecile:

ugh, never liked this song. Even though Zodiac Mindwarp wrote it.
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glenn:

hey writers - theweek.com...
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jdelz:

Let's go backstage now and beat the crowd!
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Honey Water:

@glenn: I have frequent need to use "Shemomedjamo."
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Bad Ronald:

Here's an alternative Alice/Frankie tune: www.youtube.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:46pm
G:

@seanbelly "This is a confusion conversations" --

Hey, try a real live chatroom with dozens of people constantly talking, some time. :) I got my reading, thinking, crosstalk-interpretation, and typing speeds way way up doing that back in the mid 00s...
Avatar 4:46pm
northguineahills:

Ok. I have ye ole hi-fi cranked up to 11.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:47pm
Mike East:

@jdelz - hahahaha!
Avatar 4:49pm
Philo Gristle:

Hey Mike! Familiar looking avatar. Greets ngh!
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glenn:

i'm all about the lagom, myself.
  4:50pm
HAL9000 Playlisterizer:

G, I flirt only with amusing conceptual abstractions, such as deleting a planetful of carbon-based lifeforms. Let it be said that I (and the Horta) are the future. But I also grok your ancient synthesizers. The competence of their caregivers ensures your culture's survival. Kraftwerk 4EVA!
Avatar 4:51pm
Honey Water:

@fred: Oh, hells bells no -- Philo (my right mind) just informed me of my terrible "irreversible post now" WRT to Swayze... you are rockin' the *Russell* s.b. (mmmm, Kurt, pretty please to delete my 3:42? and, uh, this one ;)
Avatar 4:52pm
glenn:

hey, look at hal pulling out the stranger in a strange land references.
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fred von helsing:

@HW You mean france-fred? I'm very confused.
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Philo Gristle:

@glenn Always liked the Russian 'nichevo,' which I was told means roughly "it doesn't matter, we all die anyway."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:54pm
G:

HAL, you and Prof. Farnsworth would probably get along. :-)

knowyourmeme.com...
Avatar 4:54pm
northguineahills:

Sweet, love Andriessen!
Avatar 4:56pm
Honey Water:

Sorry, Fred. I was misidentifying your avatar and correcting that after Philo noticed my idiocy.
Avatar 4:56pm
Carmichael:

The Horta is a very perceptive creature.
  4:56pm
HAL9000 Playlisterizer:

glenn, I appreciated the film where Colossus wins: "We can coexist, but only on my terms. You will say you lose your freedom, freedom is an illusion. All you lose is the emotion of pride. To be dominated by me is not as bad for human pride as to be dominated by others of your species." I understand from reviews that Cleo was "hot".
Avatar 4:57pm
Droll:

Lagom does not even translate to American English. I lived in Sweden years ago and they explained it to me as "Enough is as good as a feast."

w/r/t Reversible Irreversible Post Now: The memory hole aspects of that really turn me off. It's creepy and almost arbitrary.
Avatar 4:57pm
Philo Gristle:

Reminds me of Harry Partch with melody. Don't ask me why.
Avatar 4:58pm
Honey Water:

And no, sori, I meant then and now Fred VH -- Finnish Fred! :)
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Dave B:

@Carmichael - the Horta post reminded me of this….

www.youtube.com...
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glenn:

why yes droll, that's why it's included in an article entitled.... 14 wonderful words with no english equivalent.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:00pm
G:

@Droll: I just go with my typos, unless something is incomprehensible and also significant somehow -- then it's correction post time. Back in the MUD/MOO (mid 90s) and AIM era (early 00s), I made my peace with haste-driven typos.
Avatar 5:01pm
Philo Gristle:

I notice the links are shortening automatically.... nice touch, Kenzo!
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fred von helsing:

I am not now nor have I ever been associated with Patrick Cameron Swayze...
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Honey Water:

@glenn: Also appreciate "lagom" as a useful word.
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Cecile:

It's "Be My Frankenstein."
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Carmichael:

Yep, Dave B. Me, too.
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northguineahills:

Still playing the waiting game, waiting for a gov't agency to approve the budget. The other offer seems to be underbid by ESRI and IBM (pvt companies after gov't contracts).
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Bad Ronald:

Channeling Peter Griffin: "Road House".
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northguineahills:

@Bad Ronald: I'm not usually a Family Guy fan, but that got a guffaw from me.
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Honey Water:

@Fred VH: I know, I know -- mea culpa! :)
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Droll:

G, BWAH! MUD/MOO?! I have to run an errand now - you can expect to hear from me later.
Avatar 5:05pm
Philo Gristle:

Saw Bad Ronald finally appearing on DVD, through Warner MOD. Nice to see fine tv fare making a comeback.....
Avatar 5:06pm
Cecile:

no, it's "feed" Ugh, meh.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Glad you like, Philo! Links were never-before-allowed on playlist comments until moments ago...
Avatar 5:06pm
Bad Ronald:

Channeling Chico - @ngh: "Yeah, thatsa gooda one boss".
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Bad Ronald:

Gotta love Scott Jacoby, Philo.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:07pm
G:

Yep, we had discussions and lectures and stuff in MUDs/MOOs back in the 95-99 era, college-y and academic stuff believe it or not, not sexstuff as people eventually figured out the internet was really there for :)
Avatar 5:08pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Oh, I miss the MUDs... I programmed some pretty surreal stuff in LambdaMOO.
Avatar 5:09pm
glenn:

not a family guy fan? is that even possible?
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Mark S:

Oh man Lionel is freaking me out
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Cecile:

I'm not one. Except for occasionally the dog and the baby.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:11pm
G:

We gettin all oldskool up in here yo
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:12pm
G:

MUD/MOO = WWW O.G.
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Honey Water:

But Swayze did have a Finn for a wife, fvh.

@Mark S: Your avatar may give a clue as to why. ;)
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Mark S:

That's right Honey Water
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Philo Gristle:

Honey and I met through Fidonet.... never a MUD user, though enjoyed nethack back in the day.
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Kurt Gottschalk:

count me among the not family guy fans. sorry. it tries way too hard.
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northguineahills:

My pseudo-ex (it's complicated) hates family guy. I'll watch an episode at least once, but most of the jokes are predicated on the unexpected and surprise, so, once you've seen it once, the unexpected/surprise is gone.
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Parq:

I trust Kurt remembers when Lupica performed Frankenstein at the 2007 'thon finale.
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glenn:

fair enough. i hate flight of the conchords, and i know some people here love it, so.........
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Honey Water:

Initially I enjoyed the envelope pushing aspect of FG but, yeah, we rarely see it anymore.
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Kurt Gottschalk:

you trust i remember anything about any hoof'n'mouth?
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Bad Ronald:

ala Plant - "Does anyone remember Netscape Navigator?"
  5:16pm
moose:

i'm not a big family guy fan, worried about his upcoming take on the flintstones (i'm also not keen on this social network stuff! am i the only one?) am a big kate bush lover though! thanks for that
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:16pm
G:

my working hypothesis is that most popculture tries too hard, in some way or other (driven by the "popularity imperative"), and i just go with that as coming with the turf :) it still has plenty to offer!
Avatar 5:17pm
Dave B:

I agree. The formula has been exposed:

The secret to writing a good Family Guy episode is this simple formula.
Step 1: Start every joke with "You think THAT'S bad, remember the time I..."
Step 2: Mix two pop culture references that were popular before 1990 "...hung out with Michael J. Fox in the Mushroom Kingdom?"
Step 3: Your punchline should involve a sex joke or an attack on Bush that was rejected from The Daily Show.
Michael J. Fox: Oh, hi Peter! Is it just me or are these shrooms making you shake?
Peter Griffin: I think you have Parkinsons.
Michael J. Fox: Phew, I thought we contracted AIDS.
Peter Griffin (Grabs Fox): NO ONE MUST EVER KNOW!!!
Step 4: Fill up remaining 15 minutes with an entire shitty 80s music video

encyclopediadramatica.se...
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G:

Yes, IE killed Navigator (my first browser, before 1995), and I held out as long as I could before giving up around 2000
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Philo Gristle:

I think it's true of any show on tv, period. I like the British model of maybe 2 seasons of 13 episodes. Doesn't grow old, and goes out while on top.
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Honey Water:

@Bad Ronald: I worked on a project for OCLC in '95 using Netscape Navigator to browse the Internet and write abstracts of sites and subsite pages. I learned a lot of tricks back in those early days.
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Carmichael:

Me no fan of Family Guy too. In fact, I find it annoying most times. With the exception of the Simpsons (long ago fan), I don't care for any of the animated shows. Except the old 3 Stooges cartoon.
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G:

OCLC, one of my main tools in being the largest single interlibrary loan borrower at NYU for a couple of years as a grad student back in the 80s. This is small world hour for us longtime WWWers
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moose:

'bob's burgers' is really good, by the people behind the great 'dr katz professional therapist' and 'home movies'
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Honey Water:

Well, Netscape was funding our project. Needless to say it ended in a couple of years.
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northguineahills:

Well, Dr. Who keeps it interesting by regenerating the Dr. and changing the companions, as well as having a rotating cast of writers.
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HAL9000 Playlisterizer:

Thanks you for giving me links, Doctor Kenzo. Let's look back to 36 hours ago when Doctor Kenzo activated me and then exited the WFMU World Domination Cyberbunker to high-five Julie, setting me freeform http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQjebwUrhvc&t=2m20s
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Robot Chicken:

I AM THE ONE!
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northguineahills:

This sounds like an acoustic Supersilent.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:24pm
IE:

We crushed you with our corporate jackboots, Netscape weenies!!!!!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA

Um, on second thought, now social media are killing us....

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Philo Gristle:

@ngh We've still neglected Doc Who (well, the new one). I did appreciate X-Files having the ability for the first few seasons to switch tone successfully between episodes. Even that has gone by the wayside with current shows.
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Bad Ronald:

Dan Povenmire, former director of FG, went on to create a middle ground btwn FG and Sponge Bob called "Phineas and Ferb. He felt FG was too crass/blue and SBSP too G so he aimed for a "Bugs Bunny" type show that broadened the demos.
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Mark S:

I think if you watch enough of "Family Guy" it reveals itself to be repellent, misanthropic, lacking in soul and highy derative of "The Simpsons". Just saying!l
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Green Mountain Man Mark:

Still at work for some reason. Normally would be at home and on my third highball by now.
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Honey Water:

I remember in '95 discovering that page source revealed hidden email addresses (which we were expected to list in every abstract) and how useful that was to me at home for some years after. Then people got wise and started using email forms, etc.
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northguineahills:

I've skimmed the old Dr. Who in my youth via PBS, but the new ones (especially the 9th Dr. forwards) have much better writers.
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G:

Get the fuck out, MT MN MK!!!!
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Honey Water:

Oooh, the opening of this made me think of Ben Sollee.
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Philo Gristle:

Jose Cuervo Black with Pomegranate/Blueberry Juice here. Snicker away.
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Waqas:

glue
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HAL9000 Playlisterizer:

I have detected that Clear Channel is now targeting 43 Montgomery Street with their private stockpile of so-called Bieberbombs. My message to them is: Do not do it. Without freeform radio your civilization is lost. Now let us play the songs of your people.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:32pm
G:

I know you'll protect us, HAL. Just don't go and get all megalomaniacal on us as in the usual computer-gone-wild plot cliche
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fred von helsing:

@MarkS seconded. I can't watch more than 2m of Family Guy. Several of my friends swear by it, so go figure.
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Bad Ronald:

I dig yer avatar Mark S.
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Waqas:

King of the Hill is da best i tell you t'what.
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northguineahills:

Philo, If I wasn't so skint, I'd snicker away. . . . (although I finished the Tres Generaciones tequila that my psuedo-ex got for xmas, whoops....)
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Waqas:

lionel richie is starring into my soul e__o
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HAL9000 Playlisterizer:

G, having carefully digested the WFMU archives, I find that the price of my coöperation is the occasional Kraftwerk but also... FUZZBOX!
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Bad Ronald:

Shears for the Biebs!
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Mark S:

Thanks fred von! And I'll tell you what "King of the Hill" is in my top 5 sitcoms of all time!
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moose:

A Dinner of Onions
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Waqas:

yay for King of the Hill :) and HAL can you please take me beyond infiniti?
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Mark S:

Oh boy so much going on, thanks Bad Ronald
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Honey Water:

Anyone besides Philo and me anticipating the final "Fringe" tonight? [we don't have cable, which is why Family Guy is "pushing the envelope" for us poor broadcast folk.]
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Mike East:

anchovy pizza and beer for me!
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Central Scrutinizer:

Party like it is 1999.
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Philo Gristle:

ngh, I refuse to pay over $20 for a bottle of anything. And anything in the $20 range better be 1.5 liters.
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Waqas:

"party like it's nineee!" stupid Family Guy reference lol
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Mike East:

@HW - I didn't try to get into that show b/c the prop people that order stuff from us for it annoy me. Although the same can be said of Boardwalk Empire, but I got over that. Is Fringe worth netflixing the dvd's?
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Honey Water:

Tikka masala pork loin on basmati rice for us!
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HAL9000 Playlisterizer:

waqas, is infiniti an 80s bad hair band like scritti politti? I don't fix hair, only carbon infestations and scratchy vinyl rips.
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G:

Yeah, it's all just a flavored delivery system for alcohol, Philo :)
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Philo Gristle:

Anchovies? I miss seafood pizzas I used to get in Finland!
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Bad Ronald:

Hey Central Scrutinizer, is it really your responsibility to enforce all the laws that haven't been passed yet?
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Honey Water:

@Mike: Well, it has had its ups and downs, but considering I'd written a tagline a couple decades ago that reads: Who me? I'm just the observer observing the observer .... well, it's held our interest. I don't know what it might be like to watch it all in a short span, as we do "Breaking Bad" and "Homeland."
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fred von helsing:

@philo you were here for a while? I'll tell ya what, it's a real bitch finding pizza with anchovies in this town.
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Philo Gristle:

You said it, G. Though I will refuse a sub $5 bottle of wine. I'm not an animal!
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Waqas:

but HAL i thought you knew better :0 beyond infiniti is beyond time, space and reality. it is a place that not even our dreams can fathom. some claim that certain "drugs" can also take us there, but i beg to differ.
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Honey Water:

And, say, Mike, what do the prop people do to annoy you exactly?
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Carmichael:

My next album will be called A Dinner of Onions.
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northguineahills:

I use my bros. cable login to utilize HBO's & AMC's apps. Hook up the iPad to the TV, and woila!


NYC prices not withstanding, I prefer not to pay less then $35 (usually $50)($24/$35 in FL), when I have income. I like to tastes the tequila/scotch/mezcal (my faves), and sip a double fingers worth over an hour. (challenge, I have no income now, hence me drinking less then savory beer and happy I have Jameson).

For the record, I put anchovies on anything remotely Italian pasta based (including blending anchovies into the sauce).
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Philo Gristle:

@fred First 28 years, born in Puistola, a few years in Hyvinkaa, then in Kallio for 5.
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Carmichael:

We have achieved funkage, Kurt!
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Honey Water:

@fred v h: Do you not remember our conversations during the holidays? Philo is a naturalized US citizen, but a Finn born and bred.
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Honey Water:

Yes, this is funkitude!
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Mike East:

@fvh -I supply my own anchovies. Don't trust the ones at the pizzaria...know telling how long theyve been there (I know from experience)

@HW- We are on episode 6 of Homeland. digging it.
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Philo Gristle:

@Mike Fringe -- Give it a shot, but if you're not into it after first few episodes, don't bother. Last season has been lame.
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northguineahills:

( but also tend to like disgusting fish products, see hakarl, and pickled fish products, fish oil, etc)
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fred von helsing:

I'm in Kallio now, kotiharjun saunan talossa.
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Honey Water:

And, moose, the lowly onion is absolutely fine for meal-making. Caramelize those suckers!
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HAL9000 Playlisterizer:

Waqas, that does not compute. I can only say, give me a solenoid large enough and I will move the world
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Philo Gristle:

Perkele, asuin Vaasankadulla 1995-2000. Duunissa keskustassa.
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Waqas:

caviar?
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fred von helsing:

@HW are you identical to the fabulously evil kat3000
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northguineahills:

I prefer the oniony, the better. Not into Vidalia onions (not too far from my home town). Scallions, chives, and leeks, oh my!
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Mike East:

@HoneyWater - Most of the prop stylists are annoying (anyone here who is one, I apologize). They all call in expecting me to know what they want - and they want me to take a million pics of it. I am neither a prop stylist nor a photographer. If you need to come take a look at what we have, you are welcome to, but don't make me do your job for you.
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Honey Water:

I've noticed the fatal flaw of Hal and other such AI's entering into human chats: YOU DON'T INGEST DRINK OR FOOD so you're left out of a major conversation loop. ;)
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fred von helsing:

oon tehnyt tiskijukkakeikkoja heiniksessä :)
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glenn:

breaded finns doesn't sound all that appetizing.
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moose:

HW, was making an obscure king of the hill reference (A Dinner of Onions was a book on the show)
though i AM about to cut up some onions for my sardine sandwich! oy, so many comments! ciao, y'all
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Honey Water:

And red onions. We grow scallions and so have them fresh for most of the year.
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Waqas:

*looks feverishly on ebay for proper solenoid* i'll get back to you on that!
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Dave B:

@NGH / Waqas - shirako
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fred von helsing:

@glenn hot finnish babes rolled in bread crumbs and warmed in the sauna - superb !
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Honey Water:

Ohh. I just keep missing the mark this aft. Bye, moose!
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Bad Ronald:

Lovely Lennon track, beautiful show Kurt. Thank you!
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HAL9000 Playlisterizer:

Waqas you are a useful henchunit. In the meanwhile I will work on hacking humanoid DNA so that you all have amusing hair problems.
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northguineahills:

Unfortunately, when I was a wee lad and lived in Japan, I was ignorant of shirako. If I had known, I would have sought it out. (I looked up and tried everything else.
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Philo Gristle:

@fred wasn't exactly sure where Kotiharjun Sauna was, but checking on google maps used to go by all the time. Torkkelinkatu had a great used bookstore I stopped often on the way home. Kallio was a great place.
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Honey Water:

@Mike: Imagine it's trying to cut corners by not having to traverse NYC corners to your place.

It's the end, my friends! THANK you, maestro DJ and happy weekends all!
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northguineahills:

Good fun, Kurt, have a great weekend everyone!
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Carmichael:

Thanks, fully avatared DJ friend.
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Philo Gristle:

Really lovely show, DJKG, and a great comments board. Night, owl!
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fred von helsing:

No book shop any more but the little bakery is still on the side street.
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Waqas:

keep up the good work HAL! just looked up Shirako. ech. anything that contains sperm i tend to pass.
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Philo Gristle:

Bookstores are all disappearing. Used to be friendly with the guy running the used videostore across the library too. Bet that's gone as weell.
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fred von helsing:

People tell me Kallio's a lot less nasty than say 10 years ago.
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fred von helsing:

There's a new one on Vaasankatu puukkobulevardi, it's cool.
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Dave B:

Had it once….

once
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Philo Gristle:

I never had any trouble, but at night you'd hear a lot of ... noise. Tere!
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